About the session
Economic difficulties notwithstanding, and in common with many other countries, growing UK demand for transportation is putting intolerable pressure on an already highly stressed transport network. Strict capital constraints will continue to restrict new infrastructure investment, underlining the importance of evolving smarter and more intelligent solutions. A new generation of such solutions is being enabled by embedding and interconnecting millions of intelligent devices in transport infrastructure, vehicles, the built environment and personal communication products. By using powerful analytics to harvest the real-time information gathered in this way, transport network services can be optimised and travellers kept better informed. This presentation reviews leading global "smarter transport" practice and potential, paying particular attention to UK opportunities.
