DFID-SLOCAT Project on State of Knowledge Study
on Low Carbon High Volume Transport

The rate of emissions from the transport sector is increasing faster than any other sectors. With emissions projected to rise in most global BAU scenarios, transport is currently off-track to meet Paris Agreement targets and likely up to 13.6 Gt and potentially up to 18 Gt by 2050 under an average scenario. Improving the probability of reaching a 1.5DS target will require higher ambition and more comprehensive measures in low carbon transport plans from DFID priority countries in Africa and the South Asia regions. Learn more

From August 2018 to July 2019, SLOCAT was awarded a project under the Applied Research Programme into High Volume Transport (HVT), Theme 3, developed by the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom (DFID). The project aimed to explore the current state of knowledge and capacity of low carbon transport for high volume transport in selected priority countries in Africa and South Asia. The project provided a review of potential transport solutions for the selected priority countries to move towards low carbon passenger and freight transport.

The project also provided recommendations to DFID regarding the direction and content for Part 2 of the Applied HVT Research Programme on Low Carbon Transport and evaluate the feasibility of the supporting capacity building and knowledge management strategies for Part 2.

For more information, please contact Alice Yiu at alice.yiu@slocatpartnership.org.

• State of Knowledge (SoK) Report on the current knowledge on low carbon options and solutions for passenger and freight transport;
• SOK journal paper: Low-Carbon Quick Wins: Integrating Short-Term Sustainable Transport Options in Climate Policy in Low-Income Countries
• SOK journal paper: An Exploration of Policy Knowledge-seeking on High-volume, Low-carbon Transport: Findings from Expert Interviews in Selected African and South-Asian Countries
• Capacity Building Strategy for the institutions responsible for the practical uptake and implementation of research findings;
• Capacity Building Workshop for the implementation of low carbon high volume transport in South Asia (October 2018, Ulaanbaatar).

The SOK final report contains extensive appendices with information and data collected in support of the activities:

• Appendix 1 Expert Interviews
• Appendix 2 Stakeholder Survey
• Appendix 3 Capacity Building Workshop Report
• Appendix 4 Matrix on Global Low Carbon Transport Good Practices
• Appendix 5 Matrix on Low Carbon Transport Measures
• Appendix 6 Matrix on Implemented Projects and Selected Case Studies
• Appendix 7 Matrix on Low Carbon Transport Quick Wins
• Appendix 8 Tools Assessment
• Appendix 9 Country Profiles