Twinning for Decarbonising Transport (TransiT)

英国运输业在应对气候变化、能源转型和网络安全方面面临紧迫挑战。交通运输的脱碳化及其共享的基础设施和复杂的相互依存关系，突出了考虑基础设施和运营中的物理和社会经济系统的全系统视角的必要性。现有的数字孪生模型提供与单个网络-物理基础设施系统的无风险交互和情景规划；然而，它们往往相互孤立地运行，对外部因素在分析边界的行为做出假设。在净零的背景下，这些外部性--通常包括能源供应和电网基础设施等方面，以及其他交通方式的行为--将迅速改变，因为基础设施和快速脱碳所需的业务干预的速度；这将同时影响所有交通系统。因此，我们需要开发一种新的范式，将数字双胞胎的边界扩展到一个相互关联的整个系统视图中，并将数字双胞胎与其他类型的建模结合起来。这种范式转变是降低到2050年实现净零所需投资风险的唯一可行途径，为了有效，它必须被所有人广泛接受。我们坚信，需要通过在所有社区全面和包容的参与进程，与利益攸关方共同创建新的范式。双胞胎脱碳交通(运输)项目将领导一个多学科的、包容的和广泛的咨询，涉及行业、学术界、公民社会和政策制定者，以开发一个网络，能够识别英国交通脱碳中最相关的问题，可以通过更多地使用数字双胞胎来解决，以及这些数字双胞胎之间跨交通工具的最富有成效的联系，以最大限度地造福于所有群体，包括政策制定者、交通从业者和来自更广泛社会的交通用户。我们的跨行业联盟将协助规划一个全国性研究中心的提案，以解决这些问题。该中心的设计将专注于通过将来自不同模式的数字双胞胎结合起来，并鼓励安全的数据共享活动，在哪里可以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，通过包容性协商来确定。平等、多样性和包容性(EDI)原则将从一开始就被嵌入，以获得形成强有力的研究议程所需的必要深度和广度的观点。

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.