SUV toolkit for cities (UK edition): why weight is a strong and straightforwardbasis for defining oversized vehicles in the UK Oversized vehicles have an oversized impact on road space, road dangers, carbon emissions, air pollution and resource use. In view of these harms, several UK local authorities are considering or progressing policies to discourage oversized…
SUV toolkit for cities: options for defining and addressing ‘oversized vehicles’ Oversized vehicles have an oversized impact on road space, road dangers, carbon emissions, air pollution and resource use. Many cities are implementing parking policies which charge the drivers of larger cars more, in order to discourage the use of these cars in our urban…
We need to curb carspreading Reversing the trend towards heavier, longer, wider and higher cars would make our streets healthier, safer and more people-friendly; and could leverage funds to improve alternatives to car travel. Our radical transport policy two-pagers aim to open up discussion of transport policy beyond the current narrow terms of debate. Big…