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Cross Modal Safety Change Programme
This report by Ianto Guy, Sanaz Bozorg and Sam Glaze, documents TRL's investigation into the adoption and application of systems thinking tools within the transport discipline. It covers a review of available literature, an assessment of 22 prominent systems tools, an assessment of their performance and their suitability for application with regards to making change within the transport sector. In doing so this investigation seeks to provide helpful insights to those who develop, operate and use transport systems as they endeavour to develop more integrated networks and reduce the levels of safety risk experienced by all parties.
Transforming Ambitions
The Department for Transport’s Transport AI Action Plan is a 23-point plan which sets out how the Government is using AI to improve transport for everyone in the UK. The plan builds upon the Transport Data Strategy and the AI Opportunities Action Plan to align the transport sector with the broader AI agenda, drive economic growth and deliver on the Plan for Change.
Delivering better, greener buses
IPPR report making the case that good buses drive a strong economy, healthy environment and thriving society. Authors Marcus Johns and Dr Maya Singer Hobbs propose eight principles for better buses, setting the standard for what governance and funding reforms should seek to achieve. Their research finds that an ambitious modal shift target, accompanied by appropriate funding, can unlock buses’ economic, environmental and social value. Now is the moment to set these in motion to build better local bus networks in every community: a visible and tangible change for everyone.
Advice for the UK Government
The Climate Change Committee’s advice to Government on how it achieves its recommended limit on UK greenhouse gas emissions over the five-year period 2038 to 2042 – the Seventh Carbon Budget – as part of the UK’s legally binding balanced pathway to net zero by 2050. The Seventh Carbon Budget includes detailed decarbonisation targets for surface transport, aviation and maritime. The CCC concludes the best way forward is now clear; the targets are ambitious, but deliverable, provided action is taken rapidly.
Overcoming the Barriers to AI Adoption in Transport
TRL report identifies the major obstacles preventing AI from reaching its full potential in transport. The consensus is clear: Despite major barriers, AI offers significant potential to improve safety, efficiency, and sustainability in transport – if deployed thoughtfully and at scale.
Rail investment to unlock prosperity in Yorkshire
Lord Blunkett’s Yorkshire’s Plan for Rail sets out a credible and affordable package of investment in new and accessible stations. Alongside modern rolling stock, improved services in the short term, upgrades to unlock capacity at key stations, development of strategic schemes to transform connectivity between the North’s major centres in the long term, will be investment for housing, jobs and growth. In addition, the report calls for increased powers as part of the devolution agenda to drive change.
