The Healthy Low-carbon Transport Hub will adopt an Avoid-Shift-Improve framework, addressing both freight/logistics and personal travel. Reducing health inequalities regionally and nationally will be a key focus, as will defining, co creating and co-curating our strategy and programme with stakeholders including the public.
We will work within the internationally accepted strategic framework for transport decarbonisation[V2] of
- Avoiding the need to travel, for example by working from home, substituting digital for physical services or reducing trip lengths
- Shifting people from cars to sustainable transport modes
- Improving the carbon performance of remaining car trips, through standard (electri cation) and novel co-designed interventions.
Research is organised through six inter-related workstreams
- Transdisciplinary Conceptualisation of Healthy Transport Systems: Critically evaluate existing knowledge including evidence relating to uptake, CO2e reduction and health benefits of previous low carbon transport schemes
- Evaluation Framework: Develop a new transdisciplinary assessment framework for planning and transportation schemes.Â
- Case Studies: Develop new insights by using the conceptual and assessment frameworks from workstreams 1 and 2, and input from the People’s Panel to evaluate case studies of the uptake and likely health benefits of some selected recent, current and innovative transport decarbonisation initiatives.
- Pilot Interventions: New pilot interventions will be designed, appraised and evaluated using outcomes and ongoing findings of Workstreams 1-3.
- Governance: Develop recommendations for modifying the processes and structures of the many organisations and individuals involved in implementing interventions to engage citizens, accommodate uncertainty and ensure health co-benefits.
- Theory and Practice of Change: Combining the findings from Case studies, Pilot Interventions and Governance workstreams to develop a complementary Practice of Change to support the delivery of the ideas, methods and materials created by HLTH for use by practitioners, government, policymakers and other stakeholders.