Transport carbon emissions variation by local authority districts in England: Analysis of MOT test data

This slidepack presents various analyses of the relative level of carbon emissions from cars in local authority districts in England, based on MoT test annual mileage data. The MoT data is from 2011, and where easily possible, the other data used is from 2011. More analysis is needed but preliminary conclusions relevant to DfT’s transport decarbonisation place-based solutions strategic priority include: Although much of the variation between places in the same category is due to demographic, economic and built environment characteristics, some proportion of it must be due to local authority planning & transport policies, and the ‘transport culture’ developed in places. This is the space in which local policy and initiative can make a difference. There appears to be plenty of opportunity for proactive levelling up of performance between comparable districts: why can’t South Oxfordshire do as well as Tunbridge Wells; Reading as well as Oxford? A district’s population density, deprivation level or car ownership rate gives context, but does not justify not acting.