Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 9 March 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Decarbonising Transport: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Hugh Creegan:
In terms of trying to predict future transport use and patterns, we are adopting an approach of developing a spectrum of possibilities because nobody really knows what the future holds. One version is what we call business as usual, where what we expected to happen in 2019 continues, and then at the other end of the spectrum we have developed a scenario whereby something like 25% of certain categories of worker, work from home; there is a certain movement away from on-street retail to off-street and online; tertiary education is delivered through a hybrid mode and there is less on-campus use, and so on through the various participants that make up the transport arena. For all of our large projects we are testing our proposals under the two ends of the spectrum and we suspect we will probably end up someplace in the middle. Each project is being tested that way.
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