Pathways to Socially Equitable Net-Zero Cities and Regions

作为一个社会，我们似乎已经达成了共识，即脱碳是一个当前紧迫的政策目标。到2020年，交通运输产生的温室气体排放量占英国温室气体排放量的24%，是最大的排放部门。尽管如此，脱碳结果与社会经济结果之间缺乏重叠；一种很少与另一种同时测量。因此，博士提出了一个问题：英国向净零排放交通过渡对社会和空间公平的影响是什么？该研究特别关注英格兰东部，使用奥雅纳城市建模实验室的工具来评估衡量脱碳交通的社会经济成果的最佳指标。该基地是一个复杂的个体交通流模型，从杰威克沙洲到诺福克湖区；从伊利岛到邓威治荒原在这个模型中，每个代理都有一个概要文件、一组需求和一组属性。这可以用来衡量我们在交通部门所做的改变如何对个人福利产生连锁效应。考虑到东安格利亚的农村地区、小城镇和大城市地区的多样性，它是这项研究的一个合理的起点。我们从东安格利亚中学到的东西，我们可以在全国范围内应用城市建模实验室。

As a society, we seem to have moved towards the joint understanding that decarbonisation is a present and pressing policy objective. Transport produced 24% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 - the largest emitting sector. Despite this, there is a lack of overlap between decarbonisation outcomes and socioeconomic outcomes; one is rarely measured at the same time as the other. The PhD therefore asks: what are the social and spatial equity impacts of a transition towards net-zero transportation in the UK? Looking specifically at the East of England, the research uses the tools from the Arup City Modelling Lab to evaluate the best metrics for measuring socio-economic outcomes of decarbonised transport. The base is a sophisticated model of individual transport flows, from Jaywick Sands to the Norfolk Broads; from the Isle of Ely to Dunwich Heath. Within this model, each agent has a profile, a set of needs, and a set of attributes. This can be used to gauge how changes we make in the transport sector have knock-on effects on individual welfare. East Anglia is a sound jumping-off point for this research, given its variety of rural areas, smaller towns and larger urban areas. What we learn from East Anglia, we can apply using the City Modelling Lab nationwide.