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FUTUREWORX REPORT
On the Road to Autonomy National Highways unveiled a new industry-wide scoring system for Connected and Autonomous Plant for the first time at the Futureworx event. Project Manager Muneer Akhtar explains why the new CAP levels are needed and how they will help make automation ‘business as usual’ for the construction industry in the future. There is a digital revolution just over the horizon for construction and at National Highways we want to make sure that not only are we ready for this once-in-a-lifetime transformation but that we are helping to drive the changes through. We are committed to discovering and embracing new technologies which will fundamentally change how our roads are designed, built, operated and used as we develop the safer, greener roads of the future. The CAP Levels are another step forward on that journey and a huge leap along our Connected and Autonomous Plant road map.
They provide a common language to guide the industry towards transformative change. Other industries have already seen sustained benefit in productivity as a result of automation and there is now a huge opportunity for automation to transform construction in both improved safety and productivity.
Why is CAP important? We know that connected and autonomous plant offers a real
This diagram shows the vision of a connected site by 2035, enabled by CAP technologies
The Digital Roads revolution The ongoing digital revolution in the highways industry can reduce disruption to the public, improve safety, and offers significant environmental benefits. It can also increase productivity dramatically and generate billions of pounds in savings. Digital technologies and techniques are increasingly being introduced, for example, to automate some activities that require manual labour and human intervention but also involve risk.
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National Highways has set out its Digital Roads strategy on a new website. The web pages clearly set out the company’s Digital Roads 2025 vision for safer and greener roads and how the growth of digital technology and the move to electric, connected and autonomous vehicles will fundamentally change roads in the future. To visit the Digital Roads website click here: https:// nationalhighways.co.uk/industry/digital-data-andtechnology/digital-roads/
