Moving the dial for International Women's Day
Celebrating the women driving forward digital, data and tech change across the DfT family.
Celebrating the women driving forward digital, data and tech change across the DfT family.
Jo Moorshead, DfT's Head of Knowledge & Information, reveals some of the stories and insights shared at our IWD event last month
Find out how the cloud has helped our rail analysts reduce query times from hours to seconds
Find out about DfT's new data team - what they do and how you could get involved
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.
Around 95% of UK imports and exports are transported by sea. The companies and ports that handle this freight must submit data about their activity to the Department for Transport.
The Crossrail programme is putting data at the heart of managing an enormous engineering project.
A hackathon is an event where problems and challenges are solved innovatively, using data and technology.
We recently blogged about the start of our project to see if we could create an index for our data to make it easier to find and use.
The rebuild of London Bridge station, as part of the Thameslink Programme, presented us with a great opportunity to try out some new ways of helping people find their way around a busy station.