'Projections are that demand will increase on the roads'. Stephen Elderkin, recently appointed director of environmental sustainability at National Highways, tells us how the organisation will meet that demand in a sustainable way
“Also, there’s the improvement in technology, with battery prices coming down. Those economics will drive a rapid transition to EVs, so I think we might find the transition to zero road user emissions easier than you might first think.”
“We use a lot of materials – they need to be transported, but they also need to be mined. And quite a lot of them are energy intensive to produce with some of them releasing carbon dioxide as part of the chemical [production] process,” he said. “There are some real challenges in driving down construction and maintenance emissions.”
“We will implement a carbon management framework under the standard for managing carbon. It has a carbon reduction hierarchy. This includes ways in which we can deliver the value from infrastructure while building less,” he explained. “But the projections are that demand will increase on the roads, so we need to test ourselves about the best way of meeting that demand. That work needs to be done and we need to do that strategic research.”
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