Transport committee  One of the aspects of that was some very good lobbying, I think, by our automotive industry to explore the potential.

Transport committee  But there's also the sense that the U.K. government wants to take a lead in the area of smart cities, building information modelling—BIM, as I was calling it—and these kinds of arenas because they perceive that we have a relative strength both in the digital economy area and in s

Transport committee  It's the government and the automotive council, I would say.

Transport committee  Those industry councils are close to government and they represent their industry. So someone sitting on that industry council from say Ford isn't just representing Ford; it's representing a number of other manufacturers and it's very good at taking the temperature of the industr

Transport committee  I'm just gathering my thoughts. From our perspective, that of managing and constructing infrastructure that we want to get the best value out of throughout its life, I think standards are incredibly important, because we have to be able to manage data among organizations. We hav

Transport committee  There is a certain value in doing what we would call horizon scanning to try to look at the potential alternative routes. I think the main value to that is in making sure that you don't preclude potential future options by your choices today, that by making choice A rather than c

Transport committee  Certainly in the U.K., the national government is taking a significant interest in this. My centre looks at things more from the position of the physical infrastructure rather than the sorts of personal private data the previous speaker was talking about, but even so, there are s

Transport committee  That was pretty much the last thing I was going to say.

Transport committee  It's a pleasure to be here. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you. I am the director of the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction, which is based in the department of engineering at the University of Cambridge. We are slightly interesting for a res