Low Emissions

The Rail Technical Strategy (RTS), identifies five priorities that are key to the future of the railway and require a step change in the technical solutions. This webinar, the second in a series addressing each of the five identified priorities, will focus on ‘Low Emissions’.

Better air quality is key to the health of our passengers, staff and wider society. A fully decarbonised and energy efficient railway will ensure that the sector plays a key role in meeting net-zero carbon ambitions for the transport sector. The ‘Low emissions’ priority sets out the industry goals to minimise carbon and air emissions with cheaper and less disruptive electrification, zero-carbon diesel replacement, greater efficiency and the removal of emissions at source.

With a keynote address from Malcolm Brown, CEO, Angel Trains, Chair of the Decarbonisation Taskforce, join us to explore a selection of activity underway in this space and engage with this RTS functional priority and its routemap in more detail.

We invite you to explore the RTS content for this priority here.

Register above to join us in discussing key issues that need to be addressed if we are to achieve our goals. The webinar link will be sent to you in the confirmation email.

The webinar will be recorded and there will be opportunities to ask questions throughout the webinar and a discussion element

If you would like to submit any questions before the webinar, please do so by emailing us at: events@rssb.co.uk

Background

Britain’s railway must increase the speed at which research, and innovation is conducted and put into action to improve performance and reduce costs. This will be vital to attract customers back to the railway in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. The requirement to invest in forward–looking technical solutions from development to successful deployment is more prominent now than ever before.

Senior rail leaders from across the industry have reaffirmed their commitment for the shift needed in innovation set out in this latest edition of the Rail Technical Strategy (RTS). This RTS identifies five priorities that are key to the future of the railway and require a step change in the technical solutions used:

• Easy to use for all
• Low emissions
• Optimised train operations
• Reliable and easy to maintain
• Data driven

Visit the RTS website to find out more: www.railtechnicalstrategy.co.uk