Seminar report: Science and Transport, finding solutions for the future

Today, everyone travels further and more often - by road, rail and air. We rely on a mix of private and public transport to take us to work, to school and to the out-of-town supermarket. However, this increased mobility is generating serious social, economic and environmental problems. Our devotion to the car, in particular, is responsible for increasing congestion in cities and on motorways, and for a major fraction of greenhouse gas emissions. Many regard the situation as becoming critical in the UK, which, unlike other European countries, has for many decades not invested adequately in road and rail capacity, and is now looking for technological solutions - rooted in interdisciplinary science - to avert the impending crisis in our transport system.