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:
Autonomous intelligent systems will find important applications in our future society. Initial applications will be in the following areas: surveillance, intelligence gathering and operational control in the areas of dis...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University of Sheffield
The project focuses on distributed sensing, control, and decision making in multiagent autonomous systems, which directly addresses the question about the role of remote operation and the skills and requirements for such operation.
Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are a route to safe, accessible, readily available and zero emission transport for society. Vehicles can be operational 24/7 to support affordable mobility as and when people need...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: RICHMOND DESIGN & MARKETING LIMITED
It is anticipated that unmanned vehicles will be widely used within military and civilian operations and have a profound influence in our daily life in near future. Before fully realising the potential that unmanned vehi...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: Loughborough University
The project focuses on situational awareness and decision making for unmanned vehicles, which partially addresses the question about the role of remote operation and the skills and requirements for such operation.