Sustainable transport energy

Transport is central to our way of life and enables us to access employment, goods, services and social opportunities. However, transport activities also have considerable environmental impacts; a lot of energy is required to move us around and the burning of fossil fuels for transport (and other activities) has been identified as a major contributor to climate change.

This, combined with growing concerns about future oil supplies, indicates that current patterns of transport energy use are likely to prove unsustainable. New approaches to meeting our transport energy needs will be required.

This section of the Department's website outlines the challenges that we face in moving to a more sustainable transport energy future, and describes some of the initiatives that are being pursued to make this future a reality.