Have you noticed that the increasing number of cars in Leeds is causing an impact on health, wellbeing and safety across the city? Priestley member and Professor of Transport Governance @gregmarsden-leeds.bsky.social is spearheading the “Car When We Need It” experiment in response lnkd.in/eDqN_vCF

📢 New from EDRC’s Place theme: “(Re-)locating ‘place’ in energy demand” explores why place is more than “local” and how a place lens can help reframe how we understand and act on energy demand challenges. 📄 Read the full article: tinyurl.com/6yzkv9ss

🚨New paper 🚨 In "beyond the 15-minute city' @caglarkoksal.com @graemesherriff.bsky.social and I draw together our experiences of working on proximity based Planning in different methodological contexts. /1 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

👉New blog from Prof @gregmarsden-leeds.bsky.social: to hit net zero, we need to rethink transport. That means reducing demand, working with communities & designing systems that improve everyday lives, not just switching fuels. Read the blog: tinyurl.com/2ej6zz2k

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📉 Transport emissions are off track. In a new report, Prof @gregmarsden-leeds.bsky.social breaks down the Spending Review, showing why current plans fall short of the CCC’s 2042 net zero goals, and why travel demand reduction must be part of the solution: tinyurl.com/3wanehnp

More car spreading news: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

EV misinformation: "Surveys across four countries revealed that more respondents agreed with misinformation statements about EVs than disagreed with them. Conspiracy mentality emerged as the strongest predictor of such beliefs, whereas education played no role". www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New Publication Alert 📢Transport governance system response during the COVID-19 pandemic: The allure of a ‘new normal’ and its implications for tackling the polycrisis - with @iaindocherty.bsky.social - Please read and share! @sfrost.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lol. British train announcements... "We are going to be experiencing a different train in York to carry on your journey to Scarborough". Marginally better than being 'detrained' as I once was... Nonsense. Just say it as it is.

Absolutely fantastic 4dpw job opportunity here with my wonderful colleagues @wearepossible.bsky.social - would suit someone who has some experience delivering community energy schemes and is interested in breathing life into clean heat vs energy poverty projects www.wearepossible.org/community-he...

📢 📢 New fully-funded PhD opportunity at University of Leeds working with INFUZE and UK Department for Transport #FundedPhd #TransportResearch @gregmarsden-leeds.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2165...

Catch Greg Marsden's talk for Café Économique Leeds this Wednesday 7:15pm at Seven Arts 'Post car-ownership futures: Leeds as a city where you don’t need to own a car – really?' #Leeds @gregmarsden-leeds.bsky.social More details here: www.cafeeconomiqueleeds.org/forthcoming-...

Latest study looking at the impact of Germany’s nationwide 9-Euro- Ticket and Deutschlandticket. Finds significant traffic reductions but “heterogeneity across time, federal states, and road types.” Concludes no “lasting shift from private cars to public transport, especially among commuters.”

📢 How many workers are needed for net zero? A new report by Ian Watt, Faye Wade, @gregmarsden-leeds.bsky.social and Tim Foxon explores: 1️⃣ How many workers are needed by 2030-2035 to deliver energy demand reduction? 2️⃣ How robust is the evidence? 🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/2pkytwsy

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Rejection of inaction will be on the rise. Of course many of those experiencing the worst impacts globally have no voice in what wealthy nations do (or dont).

Good response from @infuzeleeds.bsky.social to the call for ideas on the integrated national transport strategy. “… what truly matters to people is whether transport enables them to live according to their values and principles…” But, the current transport system rarely aligns with these values.

We are working on energy demand reduction & place @edrc-uk.bsky.social - the role of history & institutional change in place matters. This snap was our AM field trip through Leeds. Backdrop the ex factory of 'off the peg' clothing pioneer John Banner. Where are our clothing emissions allocated now?

“On the streets of Paris, thousands of trees are being planted, the city’s distinctive grey zinc rooftops are getting a makeover and workers are installing drinking fountains that release a cooling mist. The changes are part of the French capital’s fight against heatwaves.” Via @financialtimes.com

Good afternoon to nearly everyone! This is another absolute BANGER of a campaign from the wonderful folks at @cleancitiescampaign.org cleancitiescampaign.org/carspreading/

As the risk of extreme weather increases fire services, and the local resilience forums they are a part of, are under resourced & lack clarity on their climate change resilience role. National Fire Chiefs Council say: “… our capacity to keep communities safe and protect infrastructure is at risk”

📢New Paper Alert: The battle for kerbside space: An evaluation of the competition between car-hailing and bus services. Explores competition under different assumptions of service frequency and ride-hail penetration. An important debate. Open Access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to announce that the Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC), which I direct together w. Prof Sara Walker, is now on BSky. Follow @edrc-uk.bsky.social for updates on how we address #energydemand in buildings, transport & industry. Updates to come on research themes, findings, news & events.

Interesting insights from this survey in Leeds. Topping the list of journeys people would find hard without a car are orbital ones: “Radial journeys in and out of the city centre are easy. Anything vaguely circumferential is impossible unless you go into the city and out again.” Same in Bristol.

Is it the cars or the people who double parked... I presume this will be just ignored. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

🎄On the fifth day of Christmas 🎄, INFUZE brings to you 5 Fully-funded PhD studentships 4 of stimulating work (OK, it is actually 3.5 years!) 3 eligible for international and UK students 2 for UK students and being part of an amazing research project - INFUZE in-fuze.org.uk/research-at-...

I’ve now filled this starter pack with 150 people who have interesting things to say about transport, mobility and the public realm (but not only those topics). Attempted to cover a breadth of perspectives & modes. Many here focus on climate, public health and inequality rather than just transport.

Looking at Treasury guidance that all Departments should stop spending on anything which is not a priority. Sound reasonable? Worth remembering this pushes us towards what can be counted, being what counts. Also, that once everything is a priority, nothing is. Hoping this guidance has nuance...

How do we build a future where we don’t need to own a car? Fantastic episode with @gregmarsden-leeds.bsky.social @jilliananable.bsky.social and Ian Philips - worth a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/3i1X...

A very accessible and informative summary of the transport decarbonisation challenge from @jilliananable.bsky.social - rocking it as usual. Coffee time essential read

Attention Street Design Nerds! One of the most intriguing cities in recent years at reconsidering streets for people instead of just for cars, Oslo Norway, has translated their great Street Design Manual into English and put it on-line. Worth digging into. #Oslo www.oslo.kommune.no/getfile.php/...

EV sales figures are good. But that's not the same as them being sufficient to deliver the carbon reductions we thought they would. It is part of a wider concern I have for any future row back on our Zero Emission Vehicle mandate. More at: www.linkedin.com/posts/greg-m...

Full-text of my talk on how we should pay for driving, why we need to go beyond worries about loss of tax revenue and think about justice and why the amount we spend on cars and how we spend that is the big question we don't talk enough about. www.linkedin.com/posts/greg-m...

With 60% of trips by bike, teens are the age group that cycle the most in the Netherlands—over 2,000 km. per capita per year. Rather than spend these years depending on parents and waiting for a driver’s license, they experience the autonomy promised by the car without its stress, danger, and cost.

I suspect many would object to paying more tax for resilience investment. But would also expect help/action to have been taken by government when this impacts their town. We need a more honest conversation about what is coming/already here...

Trucks have been getting bigger, more energy & space consuming, more polluting, and much deadlier to everyone around them including kids. Not because most of us actually need bigger vehicles, but as ego boosts, status symbols & “indicators of male virility.” Note the truck bed is basically the same.

"Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, [account] for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally." theconversation.com/car-tyres-sh...

We are down to 1kb/passenger/hour on LNER wifi. Send help. (Probably by post)

Whoops - LNER have mislaid the train driver. I am very much looking forward to a world of highly digitised and optimised transport that gets projected. Meanwhile, back in the real world just the basics would be grand...

In amongst the debate on EV sales is the quiet truth that the average age of the fleet is rising and the replacement rate is falling. So our emissions reduction ambition is slowly diminished. It's not just about new EVs.

Some thoughts on the launch event for the New Integrated Transport White Paper consultation here www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... - people first is the key theme. Could be a profound shift in whether the system or the users are in charge. Louise Haigh has a clear vision, but much to do to realise it

Great new INFUZE project blog from @jilliananable.bsky.social on how we bring the car into the conversation on transport futures. in-fuze.org.uk/the-car-is-g...

At the COP29 climate summit, Keir Starmer said he wasn't going to tell people how to live their lives. That's not what people want to hear. I've written about what he could have said instead. climatecitizens.org.uk/climate-citi...

Chip, chip, chip. Will the consultation on the ZEV mandate also include a commitment to backfill the emissions which any watering down will result in? No. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Hi - will be posting here on matters related to transport, climate change and energy, transport policy, social equity and generally interesting stuff I pick up on the way. You can see more about my current work here: in-fuze.org.uk and here www.edrc.ac.uk/research/pla...