Department for Transport digital

Driving innovation: building apps with Highways England data

Posted by: Chris Barnes - Information Strategy Manager at Highways England, Posted on: 14 November 2016 - Categories: Data, Digital, Open Data, Service Design

Highways England (which replaced the Highways Agency in 2015) is at the beginning of a journey to improve the quality of its data.

Rated R: Effective applications of the R language

Posted by: David Pavitt - DfT Transport Modeller, Posted on: 24 October 2016 - Categories: Data, Digital, Open Data

Along with Python, the R programming language is one of the most popular open source technologies for data science work.

CommunITy Support: helping older people use new technology

Posted by: David Hall, Posted on: 19 October 2016 - Categories: Assisted Digital, Digital

It’s all too easy to focus on work and domestic priorities and leave things like volunteering to the next guy.

Welcome to the Department for Transport digital blog

Posted by: Alan Rider DfT Digital Capability Lead, Posted on: 3 October 2016 - Categories: Agile delivery, Assisted Digital, Data, Digital, Open Data, Service Design, Transformation, User Research

Transport is so much a part of all of our lives, whether you’re travelling to or from work, visiting family and friends, going on holiday or just being out and about.

Collaborative innovation in action: DfT's first Hack Club

Posted by: Alan Rider DfT Digital Capability Lead, Posted on: 2 October 2016 - Categories: Agile delivery, Digital

A hack event is where people with programming and design skills collaborate intensively on software projects.

From A to B and back again: Upgrading a flagship open dataset

Posted by: Matthew Griffin and Miles Jackson, Posted on: 1 October 2016 - Categories: Agile delivery, Data, Open Data

It’s easy to take for granted journey planners and other data-driven services we use every day, but they’re only as reliable as the data behind them.