Transport

As highlighted in the Energy Saving Trust recent report, Driven, the transport sector produces nearly a quarter of our total CO2 emissions, with 57 per cent of those emissions directly attributable to the passenger car - and this has significantly increased since the seventies.

Transport advice for you:

We know that people need their cars but sometimes, it's possible to reduce the amount you use a vehicle for journeys so we're asking you to think before you reach for your keys - is there another way to travel today?

In the north east, we heavily rely on transport for work, leisure, shopping for amenities and other necessities. However, it is possible to reduce our impact upon the environment through our travel habits, without necessarily ditching the car and without a great inconvenience.

Many people within the north east rely heavily upon a personal or business-use vehicle, but by adopting some simple and efficient smarter driving tips the average car user could reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by up to 20% or save £220 a year on fuel!

At the Energy Saving Trust advice centre, we can provide you with the information and tools to make your daily travel more stress free, safer, greener and a lot cheaper. We offer advice on alternative fuels, technologies and transport; car emissions; smarter driving techniques and signposting.

For the smarter driving Top Ten Tips,

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Try the smarter driving quiz and see how you drive,

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For impartial advice on reducing your impact upon the environment, contact the Energy Saving Trust advice centre on freephone 0800 512 012.

Interested in transport advice for your Business? Click here

The Energy Saving Trust advice centre makes it easier, simpler and cheaper for people to take action in reducing their impacts on the environment through transport. We can work with you, your employees and your customers to help cut carbon emissions by promoting cleaner, lower carbon vehicles and fuels, eco-friendly driving techniques and low carbon transport alternatives.

Case Studies

The Energy Saving Trust advice centre are working with the Environment Agency in Newcastle to arrange staff training on eco-driving and tips on reducing their environmental impact when travelling to work.

The Energy Saving Trust advice centre has encouraged Evening Gazette Business and Features Editor, Sue Scott, to eco-drive. Sue joined former traffic cop, Joe Kendall for a driving lesson to test her eco-driving skills. She then applied it to her company car, a Vauxhall Astra 1.6X diesel to see how much she could save. It proved a great success, as Sue wrote in the paper

'Better reading of the road, anticipation and intelligent use of speed also have the intended consequence of making the eco driver a better driver ... and, yes, I did save around 15 per cent on my fuel bill'.