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 question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Digital twins are a fusion of digital technologies considered by many leading advocates to be revolutionary in nature. Digital twins offer exciting new possibilities across a wide range of sectors from health, environmen...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: The Alan Turing Institute
The project focuses on digital twins and their potential benefits, but does not specifically address their use in increasing resilience, responsiveness, and integration of a network.
Up until now, a significant amount of transport infrastructure investment has been focused on getting people from where they live to where they work, or from where they work to where their customers are, in the fastest t...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: CITY SCIENCE CORPORATION LIMITED
The project aims to evaluate digital connectivity, transport mode choice, employment, and geo-demographic data to visualize the relationship between where people live, work, and how they travel, which directly addresses the question of using digital twins to increase resilience, responsiveness, and integration of the network.
The UK's transport sector faces urgent challenges in dealing with climate change, energy transitions and cyber security. Decarbonisation of transport, with its shared infrastructure and complex interdependencies, throws ...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: Heriot-Watt University
The project discusses the use of digital twins in the context of decarbonising transport, which could be relevant to the question, but does not directly address the specific aspects of resilience, responsiveness, and integration.