The improve transport for the user strategic priority is critical in ensuring the department delivers and maintains a transport system that meets the needs of the public and addresses what they care about most. It puts the needs and expectations of current and potential users (both passengers and freight customers) at the heart of the operation of the transport system and considers about end-to-end journeys, not just individual transport modes. It is focused on ensuring that our infrastructure and the services which use it meet the varied needs of businesses and the public, are attractive, affordable, sustainable, and resilient is a crucial goal for the department.
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
We are in a period of unprecedented technological change in which the convergence of a range of underlying technologies in the domains of computing, communications, positioning and navigation, pervasive sensing and model...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: Imperial College London
The project explores the research challenges associated with how to exploit the capabilities of the digital economy to promote and enable the development of new services to support and improve the decision making capability of travellers, transport network managers and the wider community.
This is an exciting yet somewhat uncertain point of transition for the transport sector. The media frequently carries news stories on innovations in cleaner transport technologies (particularly electric vehicles) and vis...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Leeds
The project focuses on accelerating innovation in new mobility services and matching sustainable new business models to local potential, which directly addresses the question of how new and emerging technology will change travel patterns and demand on the Strategic Road Network.
Siemens and the SYPTE are planning to offer a unique and innovative IT solution for South Yorkshire in order to improve local citizen and traveller access to comprehensive, yet personalised, travel information (particula...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: SIEMENS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
The project aims to improve local citizen and traveller access to comprehensive, yet personalised, travel information, which partially addresses the question of how new and emerging technology will change travel patterns and demand on the Strategic Road Network.