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How we connect, communicate and collaborate

We do things differently at the Department for Transport. We give digital, data and technology professionals a platform in government.

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Broadening discovery: exploring possibilities for active transport planning

Posted by: Luke Radford, Head of CIO Advisory, Posted on: 29 May 2019 - Categories: Digital, Transformation
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Why restrict ourselves to better versions of today? Luke Radford describes how discovery could consider better outcomes for the future.

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Supporting local authorities using data to improve transport

Posted by: Matt Coleman, Head of Data Policy, Posted on: 29 April 2019 - Categories: Data, Open Data, Transformation
photo of Sheffield city centre at night with TDI branding and TDI number 9 - Sheffield - Department for Transport event title

How can we use data to improve services and reduce costs? Matt Coleman reports on the latest Transport Data Initiative event.

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The power of diversity: International Women’s Day at DfT

Posted by: Jo Moorshead, Head of Knowledge Information Management, Posted on: 3 April 2019 - Categories: Digital, Women in Digital
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Jo Moorshead, DfT's Head of Knowledge & Information, reveals some of the stories and insights shared at our IWD event last month

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International Women’s Day: women in digital roles

Posted by: DfT Digital Service, Posted on: 8 March 2019 - Categories: Digital, Women in Digital
six women who work in digital roles at DfT

To celebrate International Women’s Day 2019, we asked 6 colleagues in digital, data and technology roles to tell us about their work.

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The future is Google Cloudy for DfT: the transformation of LENNON

Posted by: Luke Radford, Head of CIO Advisory, Posted on: 26 February 2019 - Categories: Data, Digital, Transformation
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Find out how the cloud has helped our rail analysts reduce query times from hours to seconds

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Introducing the Developing Data Unit – come and join us!

Posted by: Giuseppe Sollazzo, Head of the Developing Data Unit, Posted on: 11 February 2019 - Categories: Data, Digital, Open Data, Transformation
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Find out about DfT's new data team - what they do and how you could get involved

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The Inaugural DfT Group DDaT Conference: why we did it, what happened and how to run your own

Posted by: Gavin James, Head of Digital Adoption and Innovation, Posted on: 26 October 2018 - Categories: Digital, Transformation

Earlier this month, we ran the first ever DfT Group Digital, Data & Technology (DDaT) Profession Conference. Not only that, but it was an ‘unconference’.

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Virtual Raility: usability testing a virtual reality training experience

Posted by: Keri Williams, User Researcher, Posted on: 26 September 2018 - Categories: DfT Lab, Transformation, User Research
two women using virtual reality headsets

DfT’s Rail Knowledge Management Team recently approached the Lab for help with a problem: new DfT employees needed to understand the complexities of the rail system.

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Experience is what you get instead of what you wanted

Posted by: Tom Ewing, Principal Data Scientist, Department for Transport, Posted on: 6 September 2018 - Categories: Data Science, Digital

In my previous Blog, Applying data science to policy, I talked about our first attempt at developing a data science software application to automate some painful parts of the policy consultation process. I alluded to challenges we faced and the …

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Teaching computers to read

Posted by: Will Bowditch, Data Scientist, Data Science Team, Department for Transport, Posted on: 30 August 2018 - Categories: Data Science, Digital, Open Data
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Transport is a key part of most people’s day and so it inevitably ends up in the news. Much of this news appears in local papers, which make up the majority of the 700+ news outlets in the UK.

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