The grow and level up the economy strategic priority is at the heart of the government’s agenda to spread opportunity across the UK. Transport has a crucial role to play, whether it be through improving connectivity across the United Kingdom and growing the economy by enhancing the transport network, on time and on budget. DfT has a number of specific interests in this space, notably our infrastructure projects, Places for Growth and our apprenticeships and skills work.
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This study will link the changing nature of jobs due to automation and the platform economy to regional infrastructure planning and transport operations, and the role specifically of transport automation within this cont...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Glasgow
The project specifically focuses on the micro mechanisms that underpin how workers move across space due to better transport connections.