Digital Twinning for

Transport Decarbonisation

Digital Twinning for

Transport Decarbonisation

Research

Our research is focused on building an interconnected digital twin network that spans the whole transport system, including road, rail, maritime and aviation – across both passenger and freight.

Road

Our road freight and passenger transport research includes using digital twins to understand how goods are shipped between roads and ports and how transport users make travel choices.

Rail

Train, tram and bus services – and how to encourage their use over cars – is a core focus of our research, which will include a digital twin demonstrator of a major UK transport hub.

Maritime

Decarbonising ports and the trucks that use them to deliver and collect freight is one of our biggest research challenges and includes using digital twins to explore electrification and alternative fuels.

Air

Airports are vital freight hubs – our research investigates how goods move from air to road, including creating and linking digital twins of interconnected road freight and delivery company operations.

About Us

TransiT is the UK’s largest research hub dedicated to rapidly decarbonising transport using digital twins.

Who we are

TransiT is a collaboration of eight universities and almost 70 industry partners, supported by the UKRI Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

Our Vision

Our vision for TransiT is to harness the transformative power of digital twinning, and associated digital technologies, to decarbonise transport in the UK.

Digital Twinning

Digital twins are digital replicas of the physical world, created using data collected from the physical world in real time.

Our Demonstrators

At the heart of TransiT’s research are five demonstrator projects involving interconnected road, rail, air and maritime systems across different regions of the UK.