Our guests are Chacasta Pritlove Head of Transport, UK public sector, Google Cloud and Katherine Williamson, Chief Data Officer for the Department for Transport (DfT).  

In this episode, Katherine and Chacasta talk about: 

• The unique data challenges the sector faces with infrastructure lasting 30-50 years, requiring organisations to balance long-term asset management with modern data needs while ensuring quality and accessibility. 
• The importance of having high quality, standardised data that’s been collected with its end use in mind. 
• Why data sharing and openness across transport modes is important and while it remains complex to tackle it’s still also very important to do.  
• How the focus is shifting toward making transport more accessible and equitable through data-driven solutions, with digital twins and AI helping to create more responsive and inclusive transport systems. 
• The need for behaviour change alongside systems and workflow changes to embed data and AI across organisations and society.   

The Interchange Podcast is produced in association with Arcadis and interviews leading changemakers and thinkers about how we can make integrated transport infrastructure happen. This season’s discussions fall under 4 key themes: Place, Data and Digitisation, Energy and Environment.  

Resources and links 

Google Cloud 

The Department for Transport 

The Open Data Institute  

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