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CRP has successfully completed three programmes with its public and private sector partners during the calendar year 2022, two funded by the Mayor of London and one by central government department Defra.

Healthy Streets Everyday worked with 17 of London’s boroughs to remove polluting traffic from our streets, and to support more walking and cycling, plus lots more green infrastructure (including pocket parks and rain gardens). Please see the final report here.

Clean Air Thames retrofitted two vessels to emit less harmful pollutants into the air that customers and employees breathe, including the Port of London Authority’s Driftwood II vessel.

Clean Air Villages 4 delivered a suite of Air Quality improvements with 26 London partners, including delivering Cargo Bike schemes with the London Borough of Barnet, Camden Town Unlimited BID, London Borough of Lewisham and London Borough of Merton.

Many thanks to all our funders and partners! We look forward to collaborating further during 2023!

CRP Director Susannah Wilks, susannahwilks@crossriverpartnership.org

CRP have now expanded the number of traffic monitoring sensors from 5 to 9 in the South Bank BID area, providing more detail and support to the South Bank BID on movements of people and vehicles in the area.

This is providing South Bank BID with:

A clear understanding of the numbers of pedestrians, cyclists, cars, vans, lorries and buses
Estimated emissions from CRP’s Transport Emissions Calculator
Analysis of how movements of people, cyclists and vehicles change throughout the day
Rigorous data cleansing and identifying of anomalies
Easy to understand and accessible analysis and writing that identifies potential reasons for changes in values
Clear evidence and data for their public realm decision-making

If you’d like to hear more about CRP’s data analysis and monitoring services, please contact CRP Sustainable Transport Manager Ross Phillips, rossphillips@crossriverpartnership.org.

CRP has submitted 6 collaborative funding bids during 2022, including ones to new potential funding sources.

They are:

Smarter Greener Logistics submitted to Defra
JUST STREETS submitted to Horizon
DISTRICT submitted to Horizon with industry partner UPS
CO-CARE submitted to Driving Urban Transitions with academic partners University of Westminster and London School of Economics
Greening proposals shared with the boroughs within the Communities and Places strand of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund
Consultancy proposals submitted to a number of London boroughs and BIDs

Keep your fingers crossed for some positive outcomes!

CRP Director Susannah Wilks, susannahwilks@crossriverpartnership.org

CRP have 8 Brixton-based businesses using the Clean Air Freight zero emissions hub, where they redirect to our storage unit and receive parcels by Pedal Me’s friendly cargo bike couriers.

The businesses using the scheme are receiving and sending beer, flowers, cleaning supplies, newsletters, coffee and more, and we are pleased to be supporting them with free storage and deliveries in the lead up to Christmas.

CRP were also in Brixton on Wednesday 30th November to promote the brilliant small businesses using the scheme with Small Business Saturday, as part of The Tour. Matt and Gemma from Small Business Saturday had interviewed London Beer Lab’s Karl, 3Space’s Lauren and CRP’s own Ross Phillips, which you can find on Small Business Saturday’s Instagram.

It’s not too late to sign up if you are a business in Brixton by emailing CRP Senior Project Officer Isidora Rivera Vollmer (isidorariveravollmer@crossriverpartnership.org) or calling 07929 868 879.

We are pleased to have finalised our annual calendar of events, through CRP’s Connect 4 Series! So far we have had 702 attendees from across sectors, asking challenging questions and engaging with presentations from 39 different speakers.

You can watch all our events here via CRP’s YouTube channel.

On Thursday 8th December, we will be joined by Impact on Urban Health and Steer for our next session, ‘Clean Air Freight: Lessons Learnt‘.

This will be session 12, the last session in the series. But fear not, as CRP Conversations will be starting in January!

CRP’s work could not be delivered without its incredible team!

We are a small but mighty team of 7 experienced individuals – each feeding into CRP’s projects and greater mission.

As a number of other organisations, during the pandemic, CRP adopted a new hybrid work model. This has allowed the team to choose how and where they work as well as design their working week in a way that works both for them and CRP’s projects.

We are happy to say that this hybrid model has offered CRP greater flexibility, especially as we are now attending more in-person external meetings, events, and site visits.

Check out our team and find their contact information on our website HERE!

Earlier this year, the Electric Vehicle Fleet-centred Local Energy System (EFLES) project came to an end. Over a year and half, CRP and project partners, UK Power Network Services, UPS and Lunar Energy (formerly Moixa), collaborated on this smart charging project that helps reduce the costs of fleet electrification and support the wider transition to electric vehicles. Part of the project included installing 10 new charge points on the UPS Camden site.

Since then, EFLES has been short-listed for several awards, and has won Major Project of the Year at the National Sustainability Awards.

Read more about the project here or contact CRP Project Manager Sefinat Otaru (sefinatotaru@crossriverpartnership.org) for more information.

CRP has been working with 11 Project Partners to deliver our Clean Air Logistics for London Programme!

Clean Air Logistics for London (CALL), is a  year-long Defra funded Air Quality project ending in June 2023. The programme aims to encourage more light freight to be transported into central London by river, supplemented by micro consolidation and the use of low emission modes for the last mile. This will help to reduce both congestion and pollution across London.

We recently published our first case study as part of the programme, which provides an in-depth overview of our recent River Freight Pilot! The case study includes key statistics and emissions savings, as well as information on how to set up your own river freight trial, such as key contacts you would need to make it happen.

Finally, it was great to get all 11 partners together for our first Steering Group Meeting at the end of November. The meeting included a site visit to a micro consolidation hub, helping our partners to get a better understanding of what micro hub spaces can look like, and how they operate.

To find out more, please contact CRP Programme Manager Fiona Coull, fionacoull@crossriverpartnership.org.

More than 55% of the world’s population live in urban areas, and in many countries the figure is much higher. For example in the UK, 83% of people live in urban areas. In June 2022, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) led three international workshops to scope a new Belmont Forum collaborative research action on ‘unlocking the benefits of urban green and blue spaces’. The NERC is now using the workshop outputs to draft a call document for a Collaborative Research Action (CRA) which will be presented to the Belmont Forum in late October. If the call text and CRA are approved we would anticipate funding calls to be launched in 2023 … watch this space!

CRP recently launched the Transport Emissions Calculator (TEC), a tool to help London drivers and fleet operators in London estimate the impact of their trips on air quality. It was developed as part of the Defra-funded Clean Air Villages 4 programme

The Calculator uses Defra’s emissions factor toolkit to help users assess how much carbon dioxide, nitrous oxides and particulate matter is produced by their road journeys. It also estimates how rail and river journeys affect local air quality.

Ideally, the tool will inform users looking to inform their decision to

Consolidate their trips so that they make fewer journeys
Switch their trips from peak travel time to off-peak hours); or even
Change to a zero- or low-emission mode of transport such as an electric vehicle or a cargo bike

The TEC also allows users to vehicle counts from traffic data in a specific London borough to estimate emissions generated by local traffic. This could be useful to measuring how effective traffic reduction interventions (for example, school streets) are by comparing before and after results.

Try the calculator or contact CRP Project Manager Sefinat Otaru (sefinatotaru@crossriverpartnership.org) if you would like to carry out a more detailed analysis!

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