Scope

Workshops

In September 2004, Foresight held two scoping workshops for the Intelligent Infrastructure Project. Around 100 leading academics and subject experts - from diverse disciplines such as artificial intelligence, complexity, energy, logistics, transport studies, engineering, social science and economics - participated

The workshops were designed to identify

• current and future developments in science, technology and society which will affect the way things move - or are moved - around
• how intelligent infrastructure might evolve in twenty to fifty years' time
• the questions that the project should focus on
• recommendations for state of science reviews

Futures work

A Review of Futures work was undertaken to inform the project scope by identifying:

Key drivers and trends in relevant current reports
Where Foresight could add the greatest value;

Initial Core questions

The outputs from the workshops and futures review have been discussed with the project experts and the initial core questions which the project should address have been identified as:

• What S&T will be available for incorporation into IIS?
• What could future IIS that are safe, sustainable and robust look like?
• How may we deliver future IIS that are safe, sustainable and robust?
• How do we optimise possible ways of using IIS in the future?
• What are the consequences of developing IIS?

Stakeholder Group

List of those who have agreed to be members of the Stakeholder Group for this project:

CHAIR: Dr Stephen Ladyman, MP Minister of State for Transport

SIR DAVID KING Chief Scientific Adviser

JEREMY ACKLAM
E-solutions Manager, Atos Origin

PAM ALEXANDER,
Chief Executive, SEEDA

STEPHAN BEHLING
Architect, Foster and Partners

SIR TREVOR CHINN
Chairman, Automobile Association

PROFESSOR GEOFFREY CROSSICK
Warden, Goldsmiths College

PROFESSOR IAN DIAMOND
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

TOM DELAY
Chief Executive, Carbon Trust

JOHN HOGAN
Managing Director, DHL International (UK) Ltd

HELEN HOLLAND
Councillor, Bristol City Council

PROFESSOR FRANK KELLY
Chief Scientific Advisor, DfT

HUGH NORIE
Project Representative, Mott Parsons Gibb

GENERAL SIR KEVIN O'DONOGHUE
Chief of Defence Logistics, MOD

PROFESSOR JOHN O'REILLY
Chief Executive, Engineering and Physical SCIENCES Research Council (EPSRC )

DR ALF ROBERTS
Chief Executive, IEE

ARCHIE ROBERTSON
Chief Executive, Highways Agency

Advisory Group

Professor Peter Allen - Cranfield University
Professor Philip Blythe - University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Professor Brian Collins - Cranfield University
Paul Davies - The Institution of Electrical Engineers
Dr Janet Efstathiou - University of Oxford
Dr Mike Farrimond - UK Water Industry Research
Professor Nigel Gilbert - University of Surrey
Professor Peter Guthrie - University of Cambridge
Chief Supt. Jim Hammond - Association of Chief Police Officers
Professor Angela Hull - University of the West of England
Mike Kenward - Kenward Words
John Loughhead - UK Energy Research Centre
Dr Paul Nightingale - University of Sussex
Dr Dan Osborn - Natural Environment Research Centre
Eric Sampson - Department for Transport
Professor Nigel Shadbolt - University of Southampton
Professor Will Stewart
Professor Martyn Thomas - Martyn Thomas Associates
Dr Lesley Thompson - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Centre
Professor John Urry - Lancaster University
Dr Alister Wilson - Waverley Management

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