DIGITAL SHOWS THE WAY TO SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE
Safety and sustainability are critical focus areas for society. How can today’s transport and infrastructure providers ensure their networks are Future Ready?
Digital is an enabler for sustainability, net zero, safety and customer experience. Future ready networks will need to be resilient to climate change. They will need to be developed with a focus on the carbon in their construction as well as their operation. And they will need to provide customers with safe, reliable, and accessible experiences.
These can all be facilitated by data and the insights it can deliver for customers now, and in the future.
“Our digital strategy should be driven by our core objectives and, from my perspective, those are carbon reduction, social value, asset data collection, and efficiency of project delivery. The collation of asset data and digital technology can definitely help in the fight against climate change.”
John Whelan Design Services Manager, Lincolnshire County Council
Decarbonization is a critical focus across the industry in line with government’s Net Zero goals. Transport has a key role to play here, both in reducing embodied carbon in new developments and in cutting pollution from carbon emissions. The latter is particularly important in congested urban areas where air pollution is an immediate environmental and public health concern.
In Scotland, road users will soon be able to access real-time emissions data alongside congestion data, helping them determine the most environmentally friendly times to travel.
“As drivers set out, we want to indicate what congestion there may be ahead and the impact that might have on the carbon footprint of their journey,” says Transport Scotland’s National Operations Manager, Andrew Davidson.
“We hope in future to be able to influence behaviours by making that information available and allowing people to ask, ‘How is my journey today going to affect me in terms of my carbon footprint?’, or ‘How am I going to contribute to the emissions that are out there?’ Or, indeed the opposite. ‘If I don't make that journey, how much can I contribute to the net zero targets?’”
Customer safety is also a focus. For TfL that means knowing which questions to ask, explains Sager Weinstein. “We have to think about: What are the strategies to keep traffic moving through London safely? How do we make sure things are safe for pedestrians to cross? How do we make the network run safely so there's not gridlock?”
Many too are focused on improving air quality as a critical contributing factor to both customer safety and sustainability.
So, whose responsibility is it to ensure that today’s transport infrastructure is designed to be sustainable, safe and resilient in the long run?
MOVING TOWARDS OPEN-SOURCE INNOVATION IN TRANSPORT
There is strong digital knowledge across the transport sector, but it remains unevenly dispersed. Actors across the industry are not advancing at the same speed as digital adoption remains staggered.
“Local authority is catching up with private sector, but there's a job to do to educate people on the benefit of digital within local authority,” says Lincolnshire County Council’s John Whelan. “Think about the Construction 2025 report and the Construction Playbook; they're written for government by the government, and they all
reference digital heavily.” And, considering that 97% of the UK’s road network length is owned and managed by local authorities, it’s not difficult to see why public sector digital transformation has become so critical.
Collaborative partnerships offer exciting opportunities too, particularly considering the wealth of data insights and analytical capabilities that leading private-sector companies—such as Google, INRIX, Citilabs, Moovit, amongst others—already possess.
Listen to National Highways’ Crowley-Sweet explaining how the ability to collect more data from road users is transforming National Highways’ business model and disrupting the sector:
“It’s not just about asking: ‘How do I get good software developers’, although we do need them evermore, but also: ‘If I’m not a data engineer, what data skills do I need?’”
GEAR UP FOR FUTURE-READY TRANSPORT
To ensure networks are fit for purpose, now and in the future, organisations must also turn their focus inward: to consider the skills and capabilities they will need from their people as they move forwards.
“There’s a real opportunity to encourage data literacy across society,” says TfL’s Sager Weinstein. “How do we use the information that’s coming in? How do we interpret it?”
Lauren Sager Weinstein Chief Data Officer, TfL
Listen to HS2’s Zahiroddiny on the challenges the industry must overcome to ensure digital powers both future fit networks and the teams to support them:
The digital future is already here. Is your organisation ready?
Three ways digital is leading the way to sustainability and resilience:
1. Cultivating sustainable systems and assets through real-time data insights
2. Improving the safety and resilience of networks for all people
3. Expanding skills and capabilities for a future ready transport sector
HUB:
THE ERA OF PEOPLE-CENTRIC TRANSPORT
The transport sector is on the verge of unprecedented opportunity. How can it become more responsive to the ever-changing demands of a consumer-driven market?
SECTION 1:
DATA POWERS A PEOPLE-FIRST APPROACH
Data has long held the key to safer, faster, reliable transport. What does this look like in a world where all users are data gatherers?
SECTION 2:
CONNECTIVITY SHAPES PEOPLE-CENTRIC TRANSPORT
Consumer demands are evolving as rapidly as transport technology. How is this affecting the relationship between people and networks?
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MOVING TO A DIGITAL FUTURE:
DIGITAL SHOWS THE WAY TO SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE
Safety and sustainability are critical focus areas for society. How can today’s transport and infrastructure providers ensure their networks are Future Ready?
Digital is an enabler for sustainability, net zero, safety and customer experience. Future ready networks will need to be resilient to climate change. They will need to be developed with a focus on the carbon in their construction as well as their operation. And they will need to provide customers with safe, reliable, and accessible experiences.
These can all be facilitated by data and the insights it can deliver for customers now, and in the future.
“Our digital strategy should be driven by our core objectives and, from my perspective, those are carbon reduction, social value, asset data collection, and efficiency of project delivery. The collation of asset data and digital technology can definitely help in the fight against climate change.”
John Whelan Design Services Manager, Lincolnshire County Council
Decarbonization is a critical focus across the industry in line with government’s Net Zero goals. Transport has a key role to play here, both in reducing embodied carbon in new developments and in cutting pollution from carbon emissions. The latter is particularly important in congested urban areas where air pollution is an immediate environmental and public health concern.
“As drivers set out, we want to indicate what congestion there may be ahead and the impact that might have on the carbon footprint of their journey,” says Transport Scotland’s National Operations Manager, Andrew Davidson.
In Scotland, road users will soon be able to access real-time emissions data alongside congestion data, helping them determine the most environmentally friendly times to travel.
“We hope in future to be able to influence behaviours by making that information available and allowing people to ask, ‘How is my journey today going to affect me in terms of my carbon footprint?’, or ‘How am I going to contribute to the emissions that are out there?’ Or, indeed the opposite. ‘If I don't make that journey, how much can I contribute to the net zero targets?’”
Customer safety is also a focus. For TfL that means knowing which questions to ask, explains Sager Weinstein. “We have to think about: What are the strategies to keep traffic moving through London safely? How do we make sure things are safe for pedestrians to cross? How do we make the network run safely so there's not gridlock?”
Many too are focused on improving air quality as a critical contributing factor to both customer safety and sustainability.
So, whose responsibility is it to ensure that today’s transport infrastructure is designed to be sustainable, safe and resilient in the long run?
MOVING TOWARDS OPEN-SOURCE INNOVATION IN TRANSPORT
There is strong digital knowledge across the transport sector, but it remains unevenly dispersed. Actors across the industry are not advancing at the same speed as digital adoption remains staggered.
“Local authority is catching up with private sector, but there's a job to do to educate people on the benefit of digital within local authority,” says Lincolnshire County Council’s John Whelan. “Think about the Construction 2025 report and the Construction Playbook; they're written for government by the government, and they all reference digital heavily.” And, considering that 97% of the UK’s road network length is owned and managed by local authorities, it’s not difficult to see why public sector digital transformation has become so critical.
Collaborative partnerships offer exciting opportunities too, particularly considering the wealth of data insights and analytical capabilities that leading private-sector companies—such as Google, INRIX, Citilabs, Moovit, amongst others—already possess.
Listen to National Highways’ Crowley-Sweet explaining how the ability to collect more data from road users is transforming National Highways’ business model and disrupting the sector:
“It’s not just about asking: ‘How do I get good software developers’, although we do need them evermore, but also: ‘If I’m not a data engineer, what data skills do I need?’”
Lauren Sager Weinstein Chief Data Officer, TfL
GEAR UP FOR FUTURE-READY TRANSPORT
To ensure networks are fit for purpose, now and in the future, organisations must also turn their focus inward: to consider the skills and capabilities they will need from their people as they move forwards.
“There’s a real opportunity to encourage data literacy across society,” says TfL’s Sager Weinstein. “How do we use the information that’s coming in? How do we interpret it?”
Listen to HS2’s Zahiroddiny on the challenges the industry must overcome to ensure digital powers both future fit networks and the teams to support them:
The digital future is already here. Is your organisation ready?
Three ways digital is leading the way to sustainability and resilience:
1. Cultivating sustainable systems and assets through real-time data insights
2. Improving the safety and resilience of networks for all people
3. Expanding skills and capabilities for a future ready transport sector
Read more about how the transport industry is integrating Net Zero and Vision Zero goals
HUB:
THE ERA OF PEOPLE-CENTRIC TRANSPORT
The transport sector is on the verge of unprecedented opportunity. How can it become more responsive to the ever-changing demands of a consumer-driven market?
SECTION 1:
DATA POWERS A PEOPLE-FIRST APPROACH
Data has long held the key to safer, faster, reliable transport. What does this look like in a world where all users are data gatherers?
SECTION 2:
PEOPLE CENTRIC TRANSPORT
Consumer demands are evolving as rapidly as transport technology. How is this affecting the relationship between people and networks?
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STAY IN TOUCH
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