{"id":24987,"date":"2024-02-28T20:43:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T19:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=24987"},"modified":"2024-02-28T20:44:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T19:44:25","slug":"new-figures-show-that-rail-travel-is-almost-nine-times-more-environmentally-friendly-than-car-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/02\/28\/new-figures-show-that-rail-travel-is-almost-nine-times-more-environmentally-friendly-than-car-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"New figures show that traveling by rail is almost nine times more environmentally friendly than by car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next phase of data on passenger carbon emissions from Rail Delivery Group&#039;s Green Travel Pledge shows that journeys along the 100 busiest <!--more--> trade routes in Britain generate significantly less carbon emissions by rail compared to traveling by car.<\/p>\n<p>On an average of 100 train journeys per business trip, you will produce nine times less carbon than a diesel or petrol car, more than four times less carbon than using a plug-in hybrid electric car, and almost two-and-a-half times less carbon than using a battery electric car.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the commuter journeys with the lowest carbon emissions per passenger (compared to one person traveling alone in a petrol or diesel car) include: London King&#039;s Cross to York (produces 15.13 times less carbon), Darlington to London King&#039;s Cross ( produces 14.88 times less carbon) and Ebbsfleet International at St Pancras International (produces 14.41 times less carbon). (<em>More on <a href=\"https:\/\/railuk.com\/rail-news\/new-figures-show-rail-travel-is-almost-nine-times-greener-than-by-car-on-top-100-business-routes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">railuk.com<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next phase of data on passenger carbon emissions from Rail Delivery Group&#039;s Green Travel Pledge shows that journeys along the 100 busiest<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-znizovanie_co2_cdr_ccs_ccu_dac"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}