RSSB How will industry know how
sustainable its projects and proposals are? The SRP is enabling individual companies to measure and manage their own sustainability with a new Sustainable Development Self-Assessment Tool. Up to now, individual companies have not had access to a consistent way of measuring themselves against the SD Principles, nor the ability to be candid within their own four walls about where their strengths and weaknesses lie. Now, the Sustainable Development Self-Assessment Tool provides a user-friendly, consistent, web-based system for rail organisations to measure their immersion into sustainable development as individual companies, securely, with no active publishing or sharing of results, to capture an honest and frank appraisal. This framework is designed to help organisations have a structured conversation to answer questions about their own sustainability and their priorities, and to move them towards a more resilient business model.
The tool was recently used by the team developing the capacity enhancement programme for Waterloo station, bringing together DfT, Network Rail and South West Trains to identify their sustainability goals and priorities, and how they plan to embed them in the project. Over two workshops
the team identified where it wanted to push the boundaries, where it wanted top performance and where good practice was good enough. The assessment also helped to identify a need to focus on communications and stakeholder engagement.
in CP5 (rising to 2.8 million tonnes of CO2 and more than £350 million by the end of CP6 in 2024):
Will it mean more cost? But will an increased effort on sustainability mean more cost? It needn’t, indeed efficient use of resources is central to the SD Principles. Driven by this, industry has identified potential cost savings of more than £350 million by the end of CP6 by reducing carbon emissions. Research has identified the four key network level interventions that together could help save more than one million tonnes of CO2
• practising energy efficient driving across the network, and in particular installing driver advisory systems (DAS)
• installing the automatic shutdown of hotel loads
• ensuring weight reduction is specified in new trains
• enabling regenerative braking on the Class 92 fleet.
There are also widespread opportunities around LED lighting at stations and depots as well as many other smaller opportunities. The four key interventions, when considered alongside the decarbonisation of electricity generation and the electrification of the network, could lead to overall traction carbon reductions of 38 per cent per passenger km and 10 per cent per net freight km by 2019. This translates into
an absolute reduction in traction CO2 emissions of 12 per cent or 400,000 tonnes per year by the end of CP5 (against a 2009/10 baseline).
But these savings will only be realised if the opportunities are taken. The coming control period and re-
and more than £100 million
franchising programme offer a unique opportunity for industry to truly embrace the challenge of sustainable development, and to realise significant potential to reduce cost and environmental impact, while still growing the rail system to accommodate the future. If we don’t take up the challenge this time round, how long can we expect to sit at the top of future judgements of sustainability?
Anthony Perret is programme manager, Sustainable Development at RSSB Visit
www.rssb.co.uk
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