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Rail industry explores emissions charging

Rail

19 March 2021
Diesel: new charge?
Diesel: new charge?

 

The rail industry is to explore the practicality of a  charging scheme to encourage train operators to reduce diesel  emissions.  

Industry body the RSSB is commissioning research to “assess the feasibility, and potential criteria and mechanisms of an [emissions] incentivisation scheme for rail”. The idea may be most appropriate for the country’s major metropolitan areas, it says. 

The research will answer the following questions:

whether incentivisation...

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