James Hookham
Managing Director - Policy and Communications, Freight Transport Association

• Can there be a pro-green/pro-growth transport agenda
• DfT's plans to reduce carbon emissions from road transport
• Benefits to businesses of travel planning for employees

Jacqui Wilkinson [ view profile ]
Head of Sustainable Travel
DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT

• Transport is responsible for more than a quarter of global Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG), and the sector has one of the highest growth rates world-wide. Transport growth is often perceived as being necessary for economic development despite the fact that decision makers are increasingly acknowledging the negative side effects of transport, such as air and noise pollution, resource consumption and the impact upon land-use
  
• The key question is how to develop a transport system that will meet the requirements of a low carbon society whilst also meeting the need for development, especially in non-industrialised countries
  
• This presentation is based upon recent research conducted for the German Technical Cooperation and the European Environmental Agency.  It outlines the main global and European trends and details the key drivers of transport and their environmental impact
  
• The presentation also introduces strategies like adaptation, sustainable planning, resource efficiency strategies, and air and noise pollution reduction strategies.  The positive impact that such approaches can have on reducing the negative effects of transport will be mapped

Holger Dalkmann [ view profile ]
Group Manager, Environmental Assessment & Policy
TRL

Topics in Session 3:

• The electification of transport and its wider benefits to society in terms of carbon and energy reduction
• Powering the electric transport future: How battery technology is driving the rapid development of EVs

• Opportunities and scope for the surface transport sector to switch to EV's and PHEV's to enable a significant reduction in CO2 emissions
• The opportunity for the introduction of Zero Emission Zones in cities
• Developing requirements for local authorities to reduce city emissions (local tailpipe, green house gases, and noise pollution)
• The grid impact will be briefly considered through reviewing Vehicle to Grid (V2G) principles and how these principles can offer load balancing opportunities and an increase in percentage of UK grid mix from renewables through the energy storage opportunity this technology offers.

Dr John Miles [ view profile ]
Main Board Director
ARUP

• How battery technology advances, in particular lithium-ion batteries, are now offering reduced weight but with greater energy density and longer life at an economic cost
• An overview of lithium chemistries are available – and highlighting which chemistry is best for EV applications and why
• How the battery management system (BMS) supports optimal vehicle performance
• A brief overview of the EVs produced by Allied
• How Allied is getting the vehicles to market
• The economics of EVs for fleet managers; batteries form a large part of the cost of EVs, and Allied will outline how these costs are managed over the life of the vehicles

Don Newton [ view profile ]
Group Technical Director
AXEON

Paul Nelson
Managing Director
ALLIED VEHICLES

Topics in Session 4:

• Online and continuous benchmarkeing of freight fleets and how it embeds green practices
• Switching your organisational culture to green values
• The role of driver training in reducing emissions
• Developing a workplace travel plan to manage the travel generated by your organisation

• Outlining the first continuous online fleet performance benchmarking scheme piloted by the DfT
• Demonstrating how freight fleets from the trunking and aggregates sector are submitting fleet efficiency operational data offering comparisons for all
• Documenting environmental interventions for comparison by other fleets
• How the information collected will become a operational performance database of national statistical significance
• Revealing some pilot results anticipating future roll out strategy
• How online benchmarking sits within the national behavioural change programme for the freight industry - Freight Best Practice, responsible for saving around 10,000 tonnes of CO2 every month  

Jonathan James [ view profile ]
Director
FABER MAUNSELL

• Removing the obstacles to behavioural change
• Involving staff in developing green policies
• Sustainable transport within 3663
• Promoting a culture of “green change”
• Moving sustainable transport up the corporate agenda

Shirley Duncalf [ view profile ]
Environmental Services Controller
3663 FIRST FOR FOODSERVICE

• Removing incentives to inefficient driving habits
• The actual effects of good driving practices
•    reducing top speed
•    reducing idle times
•    reducing unnecessary journeys
• The safety benefits of “green driving”
• Evaluating the effectiveness of financial incentives to drivers
• Continuing education for drivers

Paul Sturgeon
Driving Compliance Manager
WINCANTON

• Promoting the use of alternative modes of travel
• walking
• cycling
• public transport
• Incentivising environmentally responsible travel
• Equipping staff with the right travel planning tools and information
• Flexible working practices to reduce travel
• The business case for investment in travel planning

Richard K. Lodge [ view profile ]
Green Travel Coordinator
HBOS plc

Topics in Session 5:

• Logistics and distribution strategies to reduce emissions in Royal Mail
• Internal and external integration and re-engineering of supply chains

• Historical practices within Royal Mail
• Optimising delivery frequency, vehicle utilization and fill efficiency
• Tools for increasing routing efficiency
• Royal Mail’s approach to reducing vehicle emissions
• Can current logistics practices survive increasing climate change levies and rising oil prices?

• Inbound and outbound integration
• Reverse logistics and managing waste flow
• Recyclable waste flows within the supply chain
• Collaborative trunking – “speed dating for trucks”
• Update on the ECR UK initiative – progress to date and future prospects
• “Deep integration” with third party logistics operators
• Transparent management of collaborative networks

Paul Gallemore
Head of Health, Safety, Environment, Quality & Supply Chain HR
Wolseley UK

Close of conference