Twinning for Decarbonising Transport (TransiT)

英国交通运输业在应对气候变化、能源转型和网络安全方面面临着紧迫的挑战。交通运输的脱碳，其共享的基础设施和复杂的相互依赖性，突出了在基础设施和运营中考虑物理和社会经济系统的整体系统观点的必要性。现有的数字孪生模型提供了与单个网络物理基础设施系统的无风险交互和情景规划;然而，它们通常彼此孤立地运行，对分析边界处的外部因素的行为进行假设。在净零背景下，这些外部性通常包括能源供应和电网基础设施以及其他运输方式的行为等方面，由于快速脱碳所需的基础设施和运营干预的步伐，这些外部性将迅速变化;这将同时影响所有运输系统。因此，我们需要开发一种新的范式，将数字孪生的边界扩展到一个相互连接的整个系统视图中，并将数字孪生与其他类型的建模相结合。这一范式转变是到2050年实现净零排放所需投资去风险的唯一可行途径，要想有效，它必须被所有人广泛接受。我们坚信，新的范式需要通过所有社区参与的详尽和包容性进程与利益攸关方共同创造。脱碳运输（TransiT）项目将在行业，学术界，民间社会和政策制定者之间进行多学科，包容性和广泛的咨询，以建立一个能够确定英国运输脱碳中最相关问题的网络，这些问题可以通过更多地使用数字孪生来解决，以及跨交通模式的数字孪生模型之间最富有成效的联系，以最大限度地为所有群体带来利益，包括政策制定者，交通从业者，我们的跨部门联盟将协助规划一个国家研究中心的提案，以解决这些问题。该中心将专注于通过结合不同模式的数字孪生模型并鼓励安全的数据共享活动来寻求可投资的研究和最大的社会影响。议程将通过一系列以合作和共同创造为重点的活动，通过包容性磋商形成。平等，多样性和包容性（EDI）原则将从一开始就被嵌入，以获得形成强大的研究议程所需的必要深度和广度。

The UK's transport sector faces urgent challenges in dealing with climate change, energy transitions and cyber security. Decarbonisation of transport, with its shared infrastructure and complex interdependencies, throws into sharp focus the need to consider a whole-system view of physical and socio-economic systems in infrastructure and operations. Existing digital twin models offer risk free interaction and scenario planning with individual cyber-physical infrastructure systems; however, they often operate in isolation from each other, making assumptions about behaviour of external factors at the analysis boundary. In the net-zero context, these externalities, which often include aspects such as energy supply and grid infrastructure, as well as the behaviour of other transport modes, will change rapidly due to the pace of infrastructure and operational interventions needed for rapid decarbonisation; this will impact all transport systems simultaneously. We therefore need to develop a new paradigm, extending boundaries of digital twins into an interconnected whole system view, and incorporating digital twins with other types of modelling. This paradigm shift represents the only viable pathway to de-risking the investments needed to achieve net-zero by 2050, and to be effective it must be widely accepted by all. We passionately believe that the new paradigm needs to be co-created with stakeholders through an exhaustive and inclusive process of engagement across all communities. The Twinning in Decarbonising Transport (TransiT) project will lead a multi-disciplinary, inclusive, and extensive consultation across industry, academia, civil society and policymakers to develop a network capable of identifying both the most pertinent issues in UK transport decarbonisation that can be addressed by greater use of digital twins, and the most fruitful links between such digital twins across transport modes to maximise benefits to all groups alike, including policymakers, transport practitioners, and transport users from wider society.Our cross-sector consortium will assist in planning a proposal for a national research hub to tackle these issues. The hub will be designed to focus on where investable research and maximum societal impact can be sought by combining digital twins from different modes and encouraging the secure data-sharing activities that will enable this. The agenda will be shaped by an inclusive consultation through a series of events focused on collaboration and co-creation. Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) principles will be embedded from the start to gain the necessary depth and breadth of views necessary for formation of a robust research agenda.