推动交通的未来——解决技能差距

March 2023 Contents Foreword03 Executive Summary04 Recommendations06 Chapter 1: What is the future of transport?08 Chapter 2: Mind the (skills) gap11 Chapter 3: Building a skills pipeline17 Chapter 4: Making the transport public25sector more digitally enabled Chapter 5: Changing the perceptions28of the sector Foreword Liz James, Senior Security Consultant, NCC Group& Vice Chair of the techUK Intelligent Mobility andTransport Steering Council I’m delighted to present this report which highlights key challenges aroundskills and proposes routes forward for the intelligent transport industry. It isthe culmination of several months of consultation with key stakeholders andindustry figures. In my cross-industry role chairing techUK’s Intelligent Mobility and Transport Steering Council,it is clear to me that the success or failure of the high-level objectives associated with thisindustry depend upon the public sector, industry, and academia being well-resourced and ableto adapt to the constantly evolving market challenges. As the transport sector innovates in order to solve complex challenges around efficiency,safety and reliability, it must also foresee the challenges in skills that are emergingconcurrently. The specific nature of these challenges isn't possible to precisely predict,however, it is easy to recognise the importance that both an appropriately skilled workforcewill have in addressing them and in educating the public on how to make best use of thesesolutions as they emerge. The recommendations made in this report are aimed at addressing these challengesholistically, spanning from early years education through to retraining and cross-skilling mid-career. They recognise the urgent need to not just acknowledge the challenge but take action. Executive Summary The rate of innovation we will see within the transport sector over the next 30years cannot be overstated. Across all modes – road, rail, air, and sea – newtechnologies and data systems are being developed and integrated to driveremarkable outcomes. This is being driven by the consumer need for data-enriched services to make informeddecisions, the urgent need to decarbonise and the push to remain competitive as digitaltransformation sweeps our economy at a staggering pace. Passengers and the public will have noticed much of this - take the growth in travel planningapplications, ride-sharing and ticketing developments in the last twenty years as an example- but even more has happened in the backend. The ‘deep tech’ that has revolutionisedeverything from maintenance and scheduling, through to the design of vehicles andintegration of modes. However, transport faces a significant skills challenge, and the opportunities will not berealised unless we have enough engineers, data scientists, developers, and technologists tomake this change. This report looks at the skills implications for three prevailing trends in thetransport sector: new mobility, low or no carbon transport, and integrated transport. In response to this, techUK, the UK’s technology trade association, has developed fiverecommendations for government that we feel will drive measurable impact. Firstly, we are calling for the establishment of two new forums: a cross-modal digital skillstaskforce and a Transport Digital Champions Advisory Council. These groups will ensurebest practice across the sector’s often fragmented landscape is shared, strategies developedholistically and the sector is recognised as a thriving and dynamic place to work. A further two recommendations – Apprenticeship Levy reform and a Digital Skills &Productivity Tax Credit – we believe can drive step-changes for employers not just intransport but the entire economy. Finally, we are calling for a clear policy roadmap from the Department for Transport toaddress the challenges outlined in its transport labour market and skills consultation whichclosed in May 2022. Employers need policy certainty and foresight if they are expected toinvest in the UK for the long-term. Recommendations 1.The Department for Transport should publish a policy roadmap foraddressing issues identified within its transport labour market andskills consultation We recommend the Department for Transport publishes a policyroadmap, supported by actions for government, following the feedbackit received from the transport labour market and skills consultationwhich concluded in May 2022. This should set out clear next steps for how it will seek to address theSTEM skills shortage within the transport industry. 2.The Apprenticeship Levy should be reformed to transform its impact We recommend that the Treasury should increase the rate oftransferable funds of the Apprenticeship Levy from 25% to 80% toallow high quality training to cascade down through supply chains.Additionally, the lifetime of the funds should be increased fromtwo to five years to increase. By combating overall issues with theapprenticeship levy, businesses would ul