Today the Department for Transport are celebrating the people who work on our roads and the innovations changing the industry. CIHT is supporting the campaign and have released a podcast on the ADEPT Live Labs project today. ADEPT SMART Places Live Labs Programme, a two-year, £22.9m project funded by the Department for Transport that will run until Spring 2021.
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The advances made in digital technology have transformed how we live and work and will continue to have far-reaching impacts for some time to come. In this podcast Justin Ward speaks with Giles Perkins, Head of Future Mobility at WSP. Giles is leading work for the ADEPT SMART Places Live Labs Programme, a two-year, £22.9m project funded by the Department for Transport that will run until Spring 2021.
You can listen to the podcast (and previous podcasts) by clicking here.
Steve Berry OBE, Department for Transport said:
Today the Department for Transport is celebrating the Road Heroes who work on our roads and the innovations that are helping to change the industry. Thank you to all those Road Heroes who work day and night and in all weather conditions to help keep us safe.
Giles Perkins, Head of Future Mobility at WSP said in the interview:
This is about the DfT providing funds to work in partnership; not only with the Live Labs successful areas but also with Atkins, Kier, EY, O2, Ringway and WSP who have all put resources into this programme in supporting the Live Lab programme over the two years.....we are not only designing the solutions for the future but we are also developing the skills for the future. So thinking about those Road Heroes, I would hope that future Road Heroes are people that come out of this programme who have learnt things and deployed things and can really deliver those efficiencies for our highway network so it continues and improves the economic performance of our nation: so we can move goods around more efficiently, so we can get people to get to education opportunities, we can improve the commute. All those things we utterly depend upon.
ADEPT Live Labs for more information: click here.
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