Past Events

Rounding out our series of prestigious speakers at the DRF Lunchtime Clinics for the Michaelmas term 2024, Professor Per Ola Kristensson,  Professor of Interactive Systems Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge joins us to talk on Designing human-AI systems in virtual and augmented reality.

We are delighted to present our partner in Digital Roads Prosperity Partnership, CEO and Founder of Didimi, Dr Kyriakos Kantarakias.

Kyriakos will be presenting a talk on; Interoperability, a prerequisite for Digital Twins? 

We are delighted to announce that Prof David Cebon, Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the University of Cambridge's Engineering Department and Director for the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight (CSRF), will join the DRF Lunchtime Clinic on Friday, 22 November to deliver a talk on Decarbonising Roa

We are honoured to be joined on Friday 15th November by Prof Burcu Akinci, Paul Christiano University Professor and department head of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, USA.

Road Infrastructure: this house believes that Digitalisation is the most effective pathway to Net-zero

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We are excited to host Dr Michaela Nelson, Head of Future Telecoms and Digital Connectivity for the Department for Transport, on Friday 8th November. Michaela will be leading a workshop entitled Considering the future communications needs of the UK's road network.  

We look forward to welcoming Rupert Furness, Head of the Local Highways and Active Travel Division in the Roads Transport Group of the UK Department for Transport to the DRF Lunchtime Clinic. Rupert will be speaking on, The dark arts of policy-making in the civil service. 

We are delighted to have two talks this week from our colleagues on the Digital Roads and Future Roads programmes. 

It brings us great pleasure to Introduce Professor Gordon Airey, Director of the Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre (NTEC) and Professor of Pavement Engineering Materials at the University of Nottingham as our speaker for the DRF Lunchtime Clinic on Friday, 18 October 2024.