Document summary
Transport is essential in every aspect of our daily lives, playing a key role in supporting the UK economy through the movement of people and goods, getting people to work and food to the supermarkets. However, the impact of the growing demand for transport is clearly reaching saturation. Congestion (the symptom and not the cause) plagues every global country with impacts to the environment, health, economy and energy; this now demands a step change in system performance to deliver sustainable transport. systems. Today's transport networks are fragmented and work in silos rather than being overall effective and usable systems. This fragmentation and isolation has confused the customer, increased CO2 emissions thus losing the original aim and benefit of these technologies. A potential solution is to integrate them through systems engineering, thus increasing overall performance of the network and the vehicles and infrastructure that operate within it. This report explores innovation in transport taking the UK as an example.