Greg Marsden

Leeds households encouraged to sign up for car sharing experiment Families, friends and neighbours across Leeds are being invited to join forces and take part in a three-week experiment exploring different ways to access cars without needing to own them.

Have you noticed that the increasing number of cars in Leeds is causing an impact on health, wellbeing and safety across the city?

Priestley member and Professor of Transport Governance @gregmarsden-leeds.bsky.social is spearheading the “Car When We Need It” experiment in response
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(Re-)locating ‘place’ in energy demand: Implications for research and policy - Energy Demand Research Centre

📢 New from EDRC’s Place theme: “(Re-)locating ‘place’ in energy demand” explores why place is more than “local” and how a place lens can help reframe how we understand and act on energy demand challenges.

📄 Read the full article: tinyurl.com/6yzkv9ss

Beyond the 15-minute city: Methodological lessons for proximity-based planning from two English case studies The 15-minute city (15MC) popularises an older idea: that everyday destinations should be within a short, walkable or cyclable distance. Treating that…

🚨New paper 🚨 In "beyond the 15-minute city' @caglarkoksal.com @graemesherriff.bsky.social and I draw together our experiences of working on proximity based Planning in different methodological contexts. /1

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I'm upbeat about EV sales. But... The average car is now older (by about 16%) than in 2019. There are 33 million cars in the fleet and WHEN we are selling 100% as EVs IF we carry on with current sales, that would replace 2 million a year. Ok, new cars drive more miles but there are 2 trends to watch

Leaning in to the climate headwinds? - Energy Demand Research Centre

👉New blog from Prof @gregmarsden-leeds.bsky.social: to hit net zero, we need to rethink transport. That means reducing demand, working with communities & designing systems that improve everyday lives, not just switching fuels.

Read the blog: tinyurl.com/2ej6zz2k

Hoping the blog makes the key messages from the Headwinds report accessible to more people!

The trouble with lines in sand is they can get blown or washed away...

Classic transport marketing...

Headwinds: transport decarbonisation in a storm - Energy Demand Research Centre

📉 Transport emissions are off track. In a new report, Prof @gregmarsden-leeds.bsky.social breaks down the Spending Review, showing why current plans fall short of the CCC’s 2042 net zero goals, and why travel demand reduction must be part of the solution: tinyurl.com/3wanehnp

Ever-rising height of car bonnets a ‘clear threat’ to children, report says High-fronted SUVs are more likely to kill and are on the rise in Europe, with the UK an extreme example

More car spreading news: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Mapping, understanding and reducing belief in misinformation about electric vehicles - Nature Energy Across four countries, more people agree with misinformation statements about electic vehicles than disagree with them, and conspiracist mentality is the strongest predictor of this agreement. Interac...

EV misinformation: "Surveys across four countries revealed that more respondents agreed with misinformation statements about EVs than disagreed with them. Conspiracy mentality emerged as the strongest predictor of such beliefs, whereas education played no role". www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Transport governance system response during the COVID-19 pandemic: The allure of a ‘new normal’ and its implications for tackling the polycrisis This paper examines how the UK transport governance system responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and what this reveals about its capacity for transformat…

New Publication Alert 📢Transport governance system response during the COVID-19 pandemic: The allure of a ‘new normal’ and its implications for tackling the polycrisis - with @iaindocherty.bsky.social - Please read and share! @sfrost.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lol. British train announcements... "We are going to be experiencing a different train in York to carry on your journey to Scarborough". Marginally better than being 'detrained' as I once was... Nonsense. Just say it as it is.

1. I need to read!
2. The car has provided huge benefits
3. There is at least a third of the population that really love cars/driving
4. Is this individual well being claims? The debate is about net impacts of car dependency for society
5. Is it owning a car or using a car which matters?

Absolutely fantastic 4dpw job opportunity here with my wonderful colleagues @wearepossible.bsky.social - would suit someone who has some experience delivering community energy schemes and is interested in breathing life into clean heat vs energy poverty projects www.wearepossible.org/community-he...

📢 📢 New fully-funded PhD opportunity at University of Leeds working with INFUZE and UK Department for Transport

#FundedPhd #TransportResearch @gregmarsden-leeds.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social

phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2165...

Catch Greg Marsden's talk for Café Économique Leeds this Wednesday 7:15pm at Seven Arts

'Post car-ownership futures: Leeds as a city where you don’t need to own a car – really?'

#Leeds @gregmarsden-leeds.bsky.social

More details here: www.cafeeconomiqueleeds.org/forthcoming-...

Seems like government keener on investing to meet it's baseline traffic growth assumptions than on the commitments it has to make for its climate goals.

Latest study looking at the impact of Germany’s nationwide 9-Euro-
Ticket and Deutschlandticket.

Finds significant traffic reductions but “heterogeneity across time, federal states, and road types.”

Concludes no “lasting shift from private cars to public transport, especially among commuters.”

The job potential of energy demand reduction: evaluating available forecasts - Energy Demand Research Centre

📢 How many workers are needed for net zero? A new report by Ian Watt, Faye Wade, @gregmarsden-leeds.bsky.social and Tim Foxon explores:

1️⃣ How many workers are needed by 2030-2035 to deliver energy demand reduction?
2️⃣ How robust is the evidence?

🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/2pkytwsy

Switzerland told it must do better on climate after older women’s ECHR win Council of Europe says Swiss government failing to respect human rights court’s ruling on emissions

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Rejection of inaction will be on the rise. Of course many of those experiencing the worst impacts globally have no voice in what wealthy nations do (or dont).

Good response from @infuzeleeds.bsky.social to the call for ideas on the integrated national transport strategy.

“… what truly matters to people is whether transport enables them to live according to their values and principles…”

But, the current transport system rarely aligns with these values.

We are working on energy demand reduction & place @edrc-uk.bsky.social - the role of history & institutional change in place matters. This snap was our AM field trip through Leeds. Backdrop the ex factory of 'off the peg' clothing pioneer John Banner. Where are our clothing emissions allocated now?

Global cities grapple with how to cool ‘urban heat islands’ Climate change has made tackling damaging temperature disparities increasingly urgent

“On the streets of Paris, thousands of trees are being planted, the city’s distinctive grey zinc rooftops are getting a makeover and workers are installing drinking fountains that release a cooling mist.

The changes are part of the French capital’s fight against heatwaves.”

Via @financialtimes.com

Carspreading: When big cars make our cities smaller. Cars are getting bigger – about 1cm wider every two years. The only thing is, our streets aren’t.

Good afternoon to nearly everyone! This is another absolute BANGER of a campaign from the wonderful folks at @cleancitiescampaign.org cleancitiescampaign.org/carspreading/

As the risk of extreme weather increases fire services, and the local resilience forums they are a part of, are under resourced & lack clarity on their climate change resilience role.

National Fire Chiefs Council say: “… our capacity to keep communities safe and protect infrastructure is at risk”

The battle for kerbside space: An evaluation of the competition between car-hailing and bus services The kerbside of today is a complex environment with a huge diversity of uses and highly dynamic patterns of use, including for parking, (un)loading, E…

📢New Paper Alert: The battle for kerbside space: An evaluation of the competition between car-hailing and bus services. Explores competition under different assumptions of service frequency and ride-hail penetration. An important debate. Open Access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What's wrong with the replacement bus from Huddersfield Chas :-)... I get the point - but they will be receiving plenty of submissions...

Excited to announce that the Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC), which I direct together w. Prof Sara Walker, is now on BSky. Follow @edrc-uk.bsky.social for updates on how we address #energydemand in buildings, transport & industry. Updates to come on research themes, findings, news & events.

Interesting insights from this survey in Leeds.

Topping the list of journeys people would find hard without a car are orbital ones:

“Radial journeys in and out of the city centre are easy. Anything vaguely circumferential is impossible unless you go into the city and out again.”

Same in Bristol.