Environmental benefits of public transport

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) is one of the main greenhouse gases that cause climate change. Every tonne we avoid emitting into the atmosphere helps reduce the risk of more climate change. The amount of CO₂ released into the atmosphere from your activity is called your carbon footprint.

Did you know that the average person's carbon footprint is 4.483 tonnes of CO₂ and over 40% of this comes from personal transport such as cars, motorbikes and flights?

If you can reduce your personal transport carbon footprint by just 20%, you would save 359kg of CO₂ -

that's the same amount of CO₂ emitted by the electricity used to power a TV for over 3 years!

So how can you reduce your carbon footprint? On a passenger kilometre basis, travelling by train is less carbon intensive than traveling by car.

Click here to compare carbon emissions for your journey

Train: 60g. Bus 89g. Average Car 133g. Domestic Flight 158g.