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What does the future hold for travel and city life? Our travel behaviour and lifestyles are likely to change beyond all recognition up to 2030 or 2050.

Achieving a carbon efficient transport system, whilst still improving wider sustainability and quality of life objectives, is likely to be no easy task. The Vibat series of projects seek to explore these difficult issues. They explore a range of very different contexts - including national and city-based case studies - and demonstrate the potential policy pathways towards demanding strategic carbon reduction targets.

A number of empirical methodologies are used, including forecasting, scenario testing and backcasting. All of the projects demonstrate the considerable efforts needed to achieve carbon efficiency in transport, including markedly changed investment patterns and the development of new incentives and mechanisms for delivery. The most difficult emerging area is in engaging decision makers and the public in defining and 'owning' new pathways towards substantial lifestyle change.

The projects involve collaboration between a number of organisations depending on actual project, but are led by the Halcrow Group and University of Oxford, Transport Studies Unit.

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  INTRA-SIM Oxford
  2009-10
  in development
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  Vibat India & Delhi
  Asian Development Bank
  2008
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  Vibat London
  UrbanBuzz Programme
  2007 - 2009
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  TC-SIM
  UrbanBuzz Programme
  2007 - 2009
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  VIBAT-Victoria (Canada)
  2009-10
  in development
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  Vibat UK
  UK Department for Transport
  2004 - 2006
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