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

These ‘Challenge-Led Demonstrators’ have been designed to demonstrate and prove that digital twinning – and specifically a ‘whole system’ network of digital twins – can deliver scalable solutions to the integration and decarbonisation of transport.

TransiT’s five Challenge-Led Demonstrators (CLDs) are:

Challenge-Led Demonstrator 1 (CLD 1): Development of a Maritime-Road Freight digital twin – working with partners including the Port of Dover, DFDS and UK Power Networks Services. The lead Co-Investigator for this Challenge Led Demonstrator is Nishatabbas Rehmatulla at University College London: n.rehmatulla@ucl.ac.uk

Challenge-Led Demonstrator 2 (CLD 2): Development of a passenger transport digital twin in the West Midlands – working with partners including Transport for West Midlands, WSP and Midlands Connect. The lead Co-Investigator for this Challenge Led Demonstrator is Clive Roberts at Durham University: clive.roberts@durham.ac.uk

Challenge-Led Demonstrator 3 (CLD 3): Development of an air-road transport system digital twin working with DHL and East Midlands Airport. The lead Co-Investigator for this Challenge Led Demonstrator is John Erkoyuncu at Cranfield University: j.a.erkoyuncu@cranfield.ac.uk

Challenge-Led Demonstrator 4 (CLD 4): Digital Twin and Federated Network Design. This demonstrator focuses on integrating all digital twins developed by the other CLDs into an interconnected network: a federated system of digital twins. The lead Co-Investigator for this Challenge Led Demonstrator is Michele Sevegnani at University of Glasgow: michele.sevegnani@glasgow.ac.uk

Challenge-Led Demonstrator 5 (CLD 5): Creating a ‘vehicle digital twin’ and demonstrating how it can be developed to build a digital twin of a fleet of vehicles. The lead Co-Investigator for this Challenge Led Demonstrator is Xiaoxiang Na at University of Cambridge: xnhn2@cam.ac.uk

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