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Description
Promoting rail transport is a vital strategy for addressing climate change by reducing emissions, enhancing energy efficiency, and promoting a more sustainable transportation system. Carrying more freight by rail could help reduce road congestion and lower the carbon emissions associated with road freight transport; however, rail freight services must be integrated into existing passenger timetables.
In this challenge, students complete a passenger timetable for a short section of the railway network before calculating the travel time for a freight service to travel through each station on the network. Students then analyze possible starting times for freight services to determine which freight journeys are feasible.
Students will
- think about how the food and products we use each day get from where they are made to where we can buy them
- consider the number of freight journeys required to sustain our daily eating and consumption of goods and compare this to the number of trucks on our roads
- discuss the advantages of transporting freight by rail and identify some problems that may occur when adding slow freight trains to a busy existing passenger timetable.
General Assessment
Recommendation of how and where to use it
Promoting rail transport is a vital strategy for addressing climate change by reducing emissions, enhancing energy efficiency, and promoting a more sustainable transportation system. This activity is designed to promote critical thinking, the basics of design, engineering, and innovation. It provides an introduction and insight into various areas of the railway industry. The activity can be enhanced with a class discussion on rail transport, highlighting how this mode of transport is one of the most energy-efficient and low-carbon, and can play a key role in enhancing resilience and adaptation to climate change impacts.
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Themes Addressed
Air, Atmosphere & Climate (1)
- Climate Change
Land Use & Natural Resources (1)
- Transportation