Transport & Mobility Project of the Year

For real-world fleet, freight, logistics, aviation, maritime or passenger mobility initiatives that have reduced transport-related emissions.

The finalists

Bauer Media Outdoor UK

Milestone: The Next-Generation Sustainable Bus Shelter

Bauer Media Outdoor has redesigned the bus shelter around embodied carbon and accessibility, working with Innovate UK, Scottish engineered-timber specialists and the charities Scope and Thomas Pocklington Trust, and drawing on research with more than 3,200 bus users. The structure uses FSC-certified Douglas Fir in place of steel, concrete containing ground granulated blast furnace slag that cuts concrete carbon by 30%, low-carbon glass, solar-powered LED lighting and above-ground reusable foundations. Cradle-to-grave emissions are 1,461 kgCO2e against 4,575 kgCO2e for the previous model, a 68% reduction. The first 18 shelters were installed in Basildon, Essex, in autumn 2025.

Extreme H

The FIA Extreme H World Cup

Extreme H staged a motorsport championship in which the entire field ran on hydrogen fuel cells, intended to demonstrate the durability and safety of the technology in conditions harsher than most road applications. Eight Pioneer 25 cars, combining a Spark Racing Technology chassis, Symbio fuel cell, Fox suspension and Fortescue Zero battery, secured FIA homologation after more than 3,000km of safety and performance trials. At the inaugural event in the Saudi Arabian desert in October 2025 all eight completed six days of racing and testing over a combined 550km with no powertrain failures, despite rollovers and impacts registering 17g.

Gatwick Airport & Mobilityways

Staff Car Share Scheme

Gatwick employs over 20,000 people and, with the Northern Runway project set to increase that number without adding parking, needed to shift how staff travel. Survey work using the Mobilityways ACEL framework found 51% of employees were willing to car share, and 30% actively looking for help to do so, while only 4% actually did. Gatwick combined priority parking bays, a guaranteed ride home and on-site engagement days, targeting teams rather than individuals. Within nine months 275 employees had become regular car sharers across 90 teams, with 5,164 shared journeys removing 226,000 miles from the road and saving 24 tonnes of CO2.

Geotab & British Antarctic Survey

Towards Net-Zero Carbon

The British Antarctic Survey operates snowmobiles, snow groomers and wheeled loaders on field missions up to 2,000 miles from base, in sub-zero temperatures and without mobile signal. Geotab supplied telematics hardened for extreme cold and connected through the Iridium satellite network, transmitting location, fuel use and field event data, with switches on the device that include a distress beacon. The organisation can now map journeys in full, improving confidence in field team safety, and has the fuel and route data needed to plan trips more efficiently and monitor the environmental impact of its own operations.

HIVED

Electric Freight

HIVED built its parcel network to run on electricity from the outset, with no diesel fallback at any point, and has focused on the middle mile, the hardest segment to electrify. Mercedes eActros 400 vehicles joined in November 2024 and eActros 600 units in June 2025, putting fully electric 44-tonne articulated lorries into time-critical commercial operation rather than trials. A West London depot opened in April 2025, cutting inter-hub trunking and raising parcels per route by 12% against an 8% target. Over the past year the 11-vehicle HGV fleet covered more than 500,000 electric miles, avoiding 1,181 tonnes of CO2 and 3,000kg of NOx.

IDRIC & CGI

MaritimeTwin

MaritimeTwin is a digital twin developed over seven months by CGI, the Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre and Maritime UK, combining live weather, ocean current and port data with simulation so operators can optimise routes, vessel speeds and port interactions. Shipping carries around 80% of world trade and accounts for roughly 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions, a share that could reach 10% by 2050 without action. The model targets congestion, inefficient routing, waiting times and extended docking rather than future fuels, on the basis that operational change can cut emissions using existing infrastructure.