A significant boost to this endeavour comes in the form of a generous £10 million grant from the Department for Transport (DfT), National Highways, Network Rail, HS2 Ltd and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). DARe is a collaborative effort, uniting the researchers from the Asset Management group and the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction with their counterparts at the Universities of Newcastle, Glasgow, and Heriot-Watt.

DARe will take a "system-of-systems" approach to transportation, addressing challenges across three intertwined scales: national, regional, and local. Its core mission revolves around the twin objectives of enhancing resilience and achieving net-zero emissions, spanning both existing and future transport infrastructure, and identify and provide solutions for new vulnerabilities that may occur because of the net zero transition, including critical interdependencies with digital and power infrastructures. It will demonstrate the benefits and opportunities that come from reimagining and rethinking how our transport systems deliver mobility to both people and the goods and services the economy relies on and will offer insight on how governance and policy can enable and drive these changes. The national hub has 30+ partners from the industry including multiple civic partners in North East and North West England, Northumberland, Cambridgeshire & Heartland and Scotland. Read more about DARe on the UKRI and UK government websites.

People

Prof. Ajith Kumar Parlikad

Dr. Manu Sasidharan

Dr. Ning Pan

Project partners

University of Newcastle

University of Glasgow

Heriot-Watt University

Network Rail

National Highways

Port of Felixstowe

Transport North East

Transport for Greater Manchester

Greater Cambridge Partnership

Cambridgeshire County Council

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority

Department for Business Energy & Industrial Strategy

Department of Business and Trade

England's Economic Heartland

British Telecom

Met Office

Scottish and Southern Energy et al.