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TransiT - Digital Twinning for Transport Decarbonisation
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TransiT is the UK’s largest research hub dedicated to rapidly decarbonising transport using digital twins. We are a collaboration of eight universities and almost 70 industry partners, funded by EPSRC.
Visit us at www.transit.ac.uk
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Digitally twinning #road and #air #freight is the focus of our #modelling and #optimisation expert Christina Latsou and her team at Cranfield University

Read more in our interview tinyurl.com/mrsswcnw

#AirFreight #RoadFreight #DigitalTwin #NetZero #Logistics #DHL @emaairport.bsky.social
Dr Christina Latsou is a TransiT Co-Investigator and an expert in the simulation and optimisation of complex systems at Cranfield University. A flight leaving East Midlands Airport. Image courtesy of East Midlands Airport. Electric Ford E-Transit vans at a DHL depot. Image courtesy of DHL.
November 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Scotland’s #Transport Cabinet Secretary, @fionahyslop.bsky.social, met road #freight operators & #logistics researchers at Heriot-Watt’s Panmure House as part of our Transport Scotland research

More here: tinyurl.com/mvhvxvre

#ZeroEmission #HGVs @heriotwattuni.bsky.social @ebs-hwu.bsky.social
Fiona Hyslop MSP, Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure and Connectivity, addressing the event. Professor Phil Greening meeting the Cabinet Secretary. The event at Panmure House was hosted by the Zero Emission HGV team at Transport Scotland. The Heriot-Watt research team. From left to right: Guy Walker, Alan Logan, Siti Fariya, Adam Gripton, Tushara Kodikara, Dhanan Utomo and Phil Greening.
November 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Two of our TransiT experts are taking part in next week’s UK Digital Twin 2025 event in Nottingham.

More here: tinyurl.com/2aap397u

#UKDigitalTwin2025 #NetZero #Transport #DigitalTwin #TransitTwin #UrbanTech @cpcatapult.bsky.social
The UK Digital Twin 2025 event takes place in Nottingham on 11 and 12 November. Dr Christina Latsou Dr Ahmad Taha
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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#Transport systems will become “increasingly reliant” on digital twins to operate and to advance #decarbonisation, suggests a #TransiT report by CENSIS, Scotland’s Innovation Centre for sensing, imaging & #IoT tech

More here: tinyurl.com/54zkumf8

#DigitalTwin #NetZero @uofgengineering.bsky.social
A digital truck. Transport systems will become “increasingly reliant” on digital twins to operate and to advance decarbonisation, researchers suggest.
November 3, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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#Human decisions and actions are a key factor in #transport systems. #TransiT’s human factors lead Guy Walker explains why this matters for transport planning and modelling

More here: tinyurl.com/38d5a6db

#HumanFactors #Psychology #Transport #DigitalTwin
Bus passengers. Photo by Nik on Unsplash. TransiT human factors expert, Guy Walker.
October 2, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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What is agent-based modelling and how does it help us understand #transport systems?

Read our interview with #TransiT researcher Wenhua Jiang: tinyurl.com/3e2wt72p

#TransportModelling #Decarbonisation #DigitalTwin #TransiTtwin #AgentBasedModelling
Wenhua Jiang, a Postdoctoral Research Associate at TransiT, the UK’s largest research hub dedicated to rapidly decarbonising transport using digital twins. A West Midlands tram and bus. Photo by Transport for West Midlands / West Midlands Combined Authority.
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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TransiT, the UK’s national Digital Twinning Hub for #Decarbonising #Transport, has appointed a new Head of Data to help its research teams manage growing volumes of transport data

More here: tinyurl.com/2eb3tk8u

#TransportData #BigData #NetZero
Barbara Alvarez Solanilla, Head of Data at TransiT. Cars, buses and trams in Edinburgh. Photo by Ben Glasgow Photography.
September 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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What will #decarbonised #transport of the future look like? #TransiT’s Dr Daniel Mitchell is exploring this, using #visualisation tools including computer #gaming engines and construction modelling software 🌍

More here: tinyurl.com/2asafxek

#NetZero #DigitalTwin @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Daniel Mitchell with Boston Dynamics robot, Spot.
September 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Big thanks to #rail digital advisory expert Jon Elphick of global consultancy #WSP for the #TransiT mention in his interview with this month’s #RailProfessional magazine.

Read Jon’s interview on pages 16 to 19 here:
issuu.com/railpro/docs...

#RailDigitalTwin #NetZero #Transport #Decarbonisation
Jon Elphick’s interview on pages 16 to 19 of this month’s Rail Professional magazine. The cover of Rail Professional magazine’s September 2025 issue.
September 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Congratulations to Dhanan Utomo, Siti Fariya and our other #TransiT researchers for winning an award for their work at last week’s Logistics Research Network Conference 2025 at University of Sheffield 👏

More here: tinyurl.com/374cax5n

#LRN25 #Transport #Decarbonisation #ABM #AgentBasedModelling
September 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Congratulations to David Flynn, our #TransiT joint programme director, on being shortlisted for an IET Achievement Medal, which celebrates exceptional contributions to advancing science, engineering or technology 🎉

More here: tinyurl.com/ye9zypkz

#ProudToEngineer #IETAchievementAwards
Professor David Flynn, TransiT joint programme director and Professor of Cyber Physical Systems at the University of Glasgow.
September 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM