Professor Julia King on The Future of Transport: Sustainable, Affordable and Effective

23 Apr 2010 @ 1245 About the Event: Professor Julia King explored how we can deliver personal mobility, in developed countries and globally, in ways that are sustainable, affordable and effective in the period to 2050. Since the seminal King Review was published in 2007/08 and presented to the UK government, the focus on carbon emissions from transport has increased. Globally, transport accounts for around 14% of CO2 emissions and over 50% of the worlds oil production. The global car parc is around 850 million vehicles, on average 13 people in 100 have a car; in the US it is 60 in 100, in India and China it is less than 1. If, by 2050, with a world population of 9 billion, we were to reach an average of half of the US level, there would be almost 3 billion cars. Clearly this is not a sustainable position: to avoid damaging impacts of climate change we need to reduce CO2 emissions by at least 50% globally, and we may have reached, or be approaching peak oil. The King Review looked at decarbonising road transport in the UK, in the context of a target of 80% CO2 emissions reduction by 2050 in developed countries, with a focus on vehicle technologies. Professor King will provide an overview of these developments, not only on vehicles but more broadly on cities and consumer behaviour. About the Speaker: After sixteen years as an academic researcher and university lecturer at Cambridge and Nottingham universities, Julia King joined Rolls-Royce plc in 1994. At Rolls-Royce she ...

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