London Low Emission Zone On Target

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Murad Qureshi AM, London Wide Assembly Member
19th September 2007
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Low Emission Zone. Cleaner Air for Greater London
Murad Qureshi AM

• LEZ Background
• LEZ Projected Impacts
• LEZ Progress
• Waterborne Freight as a Greener alternative
• Historical perspective
• 2007 trial
• Outcomes and Possibilities
• Questions

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What is the London Low Emission Zone?

• Aims to improve air quality and achieve
  associated health benefits
• Geographically defined area
• Discourages the most individually polluting
  vehicles from being driven in London
• Requires heaviest diesel-engined vehicles to meet
  strict emissions standards to drive within London
  
• The LEZ does not ban vehicles from London,
  non-compliant vehicles can pay a charge
• Operates 24 hours a day, 365 days per year, using
  fixed and mobile cameras
• Few discounts and exemptions to maintain benefits

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What would the LEZ achieve?

• Reductions in tonnes of PM10 and NOx emitted
• Reductions in areas of London exceeding UK air
  quality objectives / EU limit values
• Range of health benefits- gains in life
  expectancy- reductions in premature deaths-
  reductions in hospital admissions- reductions in
  respiratory problems
• Other non-health benefits, including reductions
  in buildings damage and small noise reductions

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Projected Air Quality Impacts

• 2008 proposals (trucks, buses coaches Euro III
  for Particulate Matter) would reduce area of
  London exceeding
• annual mean PM10 objective by some 5.8
• daily mean PM10 objective by some 7.4
• annual mean NO2 objective by some 3.7
• 2012 proposals (trucks, buses coaches Euro IV
  for Particulate Matter heavier vans minibuses
  at Euro III) would reduce area of London
  exceeding
• annual mean PM10 objective by some 16.2
• 24 hour mean PM10 objective by some 14.7
• annual mean NO2 Objective by some 15.6

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Vehicles Affected by the LEZ
HGVs gt12t
Heavy diesel-engined vehicles gt12 tonnes

• Includes
• Goods Vehicles
• Motor Caravans
• Motorised Horseboxes

Feb 2008 Euro III Jan 2012 Euro IV
Heavy diesel-engined vehicles between 3.5 and 12
tonnes
HGVs 3.5t gt 12t

• Includes
• Goods Vehicles
• Motor Caravans
• Motorised Horseboxes

July 2008 Euro III Jan 2012 Euro IV
Buses Coaches
Heavy diesel-engined passenger vehicles gt 5 tonne

• Includes
• Vehicles with more than eight seats, plus the
  drivers seat

July 2008 Euro III Jan 2012 Euro IV
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Vehicles Affected by the LEZ
Diesel-engined vehicles between 1.205 tonnes
unladen and 3.5 tonnes
Large Vans

• Includes
• Ambulances
• Motor Caravans

Oct 2010 Euro III
Minibuses
Diesel-engined passenger vehicles below 5 tonnes

• Includes
• Vehicles with less than eight seats, plus the
  drivers seat

Oct 2010 Euro III
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London Low Emission Zone On Target

• Key Milestones 2007 - Overview
• May ? The Mayor approves The Scheme Order and
  LEZ enquiries service launched
• June ? Major Public Information campaign
  launched (ongoing)
• July ? LEZ registration service launched
• Sept ? VOSA commenced LEC / RPC testing to
  support LEZ
• Oct ? LEZ payments facility to be launched

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Key Dates to Remember

• Feb 08 Scheme starts for lorries gt12 t (Euro III
  for PM)
• July 08 Scheme starts for lorries lt12 t, buses
  coaches (Euro III for PM)
• Oct 2010 Scheme starts for heavier vans
  minibuses
• Jan 2012 Standards tightened for lorries, buses
  coaches (Euro IV for PM)

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Waterborne Freight as a Greener Alternative
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Historic role of waterways in freight movement

• 18th Century
• Enormous expansion in trade, London as the
  worlds busiest port
• Building of Londons Docks commenced to cope
  with increased trade in commodities from across
  Empire
• Places upriver like Reading receive 95 of goods
  by river
• Industrial revolution leads to rapid expansion of
  canal system towards end of the century
• 19th Century
• Port of London becomes central trading post for
  vast British Empire, more docks build.
• River and canal trade expands despite competition
  from the new railway network.

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Historic role of waterways in freight movement
20th century Trends

• Huge decline in the use of the River Thames for
  trade, in the Port of London area especially.
• Closure of London docks due to factors such as
  introduction of container ships needing deepwater
  anchorage.
• Development of containerisation new docks built
  at Tilbury to handle lorries and containers from
  all over the World.
• Emphasis on trade and the Thames shifts downriver
  and out of London itself.
• Trade declined on upper River Thames, mainly
  because goods were moved by road.

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Current Trends in Waterborne Freight Thames

• The Port of London is the UKs biggest port,
  handling 52.4 million tonnes of cargo
• Water currently accounts for almost 10 of
  freight volume in London
• In 1999, the 40 operational wharves within the
  GLA boundary handled 10.9 million tonnes of
  freight
• The UKs largest container port will be build at
  Shell Haven in Thurrock to allow London to grow
  further trading opportunities

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Supplying Retailers by River Transport

• 2007 Sainsburys revisits the method of
  transporting goods by river as it did originally
  in 1869

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Sainsburys/PLA Trial

• Sainsburys and PLA cooperate in a trial during 5
  consecutive days to assess whether the transport
  of ambient (I.e. non-chilled) goods is feasible
• 2 Full 20 containers (av. Weight of 11 tonnes)
  loaded onto a barge at Terminal in Greenwich,
  close to regional distribution centre
• Barge starts journey one hour later every day and
  proceeds upriver as far as Smugglers way in
  Wandsworth in close proximity to a West London
  store

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Preliminary Outcomes of Trial

• Provided demonstrable evidence that upper reaches
  of the Thames are appropriate for transport of
  time sensitive goods rather than just heavy, bulk
  goods
• On a number of days the river barge beat the HGV
  on the journey between Greenwich and Wandsworth
• Sainsburys and PLA believe that if river
  transport would be rolled out to stores in the
  West London area, it would save 350,000 road
  kilometres per year
• Moving freight to the river could contribute to
  Sainsburys target of a reducing CO2 emissions by
  25 2012

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Advantages of River Transport

• Water freight doesnt face traffic build up
• Moves faster than traffic on Central London Roads
  
• Free Energy provided by the river itself as tide
  helps propel the vessel
• Environmentally sustainable alternative that
  causes less congestion on Londons roads

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Turning Trial into a viable service?

• Need to secure necessary land-site infrastructure
  at both downstream end (Charlton) and and
  upstream in Fulham/Wandsworth
• Several partners (Mayor, PLA, GLA, TfL, LDA)
  working together to reactivate safeguarded
  wharves for this use and to secure location for
  an upriver container terminal

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New Trend?

• Will the success of this trial and the ongoing
  cooperation between several organisations lead to
  increased use of Londons waterways for
  transport?
• Will large retailers like Sainsburys start to
  make increased use of this alternative in order
  to be seen as Green and avoid the LEZ?

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Further Information

• Phone [phone] Email
  lezlondon_at_tfl.gov.uk Web www.tfl.gov.uk/lezlondo
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