• With a new fiscal envelope soon to be announced, how can we work collectively to deliver the infrastructure required for a 21st century society?

• Experiences to date at Cambridge City Council.

• Transport infrastructure can unintentionally harm wildlife by fragmenting habitats, creating movement barriers, and increasing light, noise, and water pollution.
• The West of England Combined Authority is adapting highways to reconnect nature, a project discussed in this presentation.
• Research on nature's impacts, effective connectivity infrastructure, and adapting existing structures as wildlife corridors will be explored.
• Policy changes in the region will ensure future highway infrastructure allows for free wildlife movement across the landscape

• Examining strategies for equitable access to EV charging infrastructure across rural, periurban, urban, and disadvantaged areas.

• Context & Need: Hertfordshire Living Lab’s history highlights local governments' need to improve network resilience and decarbonise transport.
• Local Government Challenges: Issues include poor resilience planning, slow decarbonisation progress, reactive incident management, and gridlocked roads—challenges digital twins could help address with the right support.
• Digital Twin Barriers: Key hurdles include unclear definitions, limited understanding in government, and siloed data, teams, and work cultures.
• Financial Constraints: Local governments face a financial crisis, worsened by rising costs, making digital twin adoption challenging.

• Policy Challenges: Examining the complexities of implementing national decarbonisation policies at the local level, including funding constraints, resource limitations, and conflicting priorities.
• Innovation Barriers: Identifying and overcoming obstacles to innovation, such as regulatory hurdles, lack of access to data and technology, and resistance to change.
• Local Leadership & Collaboration: Highlighting successful examples of local authority leadership in driving decarbonisation initiatives, including partnerships with businesses, academia, and the community.
• The Road Ahead: Discussing the challenges and opportunities facing local authorities in the coming years, including the need for long-term planning, investment in infrastructure, and the development of resilient and equitable local road networks.

• Detailing a roadmap to a "Regulatory Framework for Commercial Drones in Urban Environments".

• Outline of Surrey’s four-year journey to automate identification of potholes.
• Practical considerations.
• Benefits.
• Next steps.

• The importance of APDS (Automated Payment Data Service) and OCPI (Open Charge Point Interface) standards.
• Challenges and opportunities in standards integration.
• Discussing the ongoing development and evolution of APDS and OCPI, and how these standards can adapt to the evolving needs of the EV market, including advancements in vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technologies and smart charging solutions.
• Analysing how standardized solutions can enhance user experience, increase consumer confidence, and accelerate the widespread adoption of electric vehicles.