Date: |
05 Mar 2026, 5.00PM – 7.00PM |
duration: |
2 hrs |
Venue: |
Abley Office - Christchurch |
Address: |
Abley office at Level 1, 137 Victoria Street Christchurch |
Cost: |
Free event |
Urban transport systems face pressing issues related to climate change. Local authorities need to reshape mobility systems to favour carbon-free trips and promote public transportation and active modes. Acting on the mobility supply is critical, but usually not enough, as behavioural changes need to happen on the user side as well. Nudging people into new policies is usually done through a « carrot-and-stick » approach, with the carrot being incentives and rewards, and the stick being pricing. Incentive policies, when efficient, often entail high public costs that are not sustainable in the long term or at scale. Pricing is efficient and flexible, but comes with acceptability issues from the user side. Tradable credit schemes offer an appealing alternative between these two options. Visiting Professor Ludovic Leclercq will outline the use of tradeable credit schemes and discuss the practical barriers to implementation and propose some options for moving forward to practice.
Presenter Bio
Ludovic is a Research Director at Université Gustave Eiffel (France). He is also a Professor at TU Delft (Netherlands), holding a chair in Transportation Systems Modelling in the Era of New Mobility. In 2020, he was awarded the ‘Grand Prix de l’Université de Lyon’, a career award for his achievements in the Transportation field.
This event will include a presentation on ‘tradable credit schemes’ and showcase several case studies in transportation, targeting the reduction of CO2 emissions and fostering public transport usage. This will be followed by a panel discussion involving local transport experts.
Urban transport systems face pressing issues related to climate change. Local authorities need to reshape mobility systems to favour carbon-free trips and promote public transportation and active modes. Acting on the mobility supply is critical, but usually not enough, as behavioural changes need to happen on the user side as well. Nudging people into new policies is usually done through a « carrot-and-stick » approach, with the carrot being incentives and rewards, and the stick being pricing. Incentive policies, when efficient, often entail high public costs that are not sustainable in the long term or at scale. Pricing is efficient and flexible, but comes with acceptability issues from the user side. Tradable credit schemes offer an appealing alternative between these two options. Visiting Professor Ludovic Leclercq will outline the use of tradeable credit schemes and discuss the practical barriers to implementation and propose some options for moving forward to practice.
Presenter Bio
Ludovic is a Research Director at Université Gustave Eiffel (France). He is also a Professor at TU Delft (Netherlands), holding a chair in Transportation Systems Modelling in the Era of New Mobility. In 2020, he was awarded the ‘Grand Prix de l’Université de Lyon’, a career award for his achievements in the Transportation field.
