The UK Department for Transport’s 2025 Transport AI Action Plan outlines a bold, multi-year vision: to embed responsible AI into the backbone of the national transport system. It proposes strategic pathways, regulatory enablers, and ethical frameworks that reflect genuine ambition.
But for transport operators on the ground, the challenge is less about understanding these ambitions and more about putting them into action. Operational risk, timeline pressure, and delivery complexity are intensifying and action must match ambition.
Across the sector, organisations are exploring ways to scale AI adoption, but progress often stalls without embedded, field-ready tools. When technology lives in the back office rather than the point of delivery, outcomes remain theoretical.
AI is no longer a future concept. It’s a present-day tool that’s already reshaping infrastructure project delivery. FYLD’s platform has powered over 73,000 AI-led site assessments across UK infrastructure environments and customer programmes.
These aren’t passive analytics. They enable real-time decision-making in the field, ensuring risks are flagged early, blockers are resolved quickly, and team alignment is maintained.
Integrated directly into workflows, FYLD’s field intelligence platform ensures operational certainty through daily insight. That’s what real AI for infrastructure projects looks like: live, embedded, and outcome-focused.
The DfT rightly highlights safety, resilience, and inclusion as central to its AI roadmap. But these goals are increasingly difficult to meet with lagging systems and delayed reviews.
FYLD customers have achieved a 50% reduction in safety incidents, driven by predictive analytics in transport and instant field visibility. This result reflects a broader shift from reactive reporting to proactive risk mitigation.
Traditional methods—manual forms, overnight reports, retrospective assessments—can’t keep pace with the complexity of today’s infrastructure projects. Delivering against strategic priorities demands new operational too
Public trust in infrastructure delivery is fragile, especially when timelines slip or issues escalate. The DfT Action Plan addresses this with emphasis on governance and accountability. The next step is operational alignment.
Field teams must be equipped with data that empowers confident decision-making. Managers must have access to live performance signals. Executives must be able to track project momentum without delay.
This shift is not just about compliance. It’s about delivering on public expectations and doing so consistently.
Reframing AI as infrastructure, rather than innovation, opens the door to tangible value. FYLD customers have delivered projects up to 3 months ahead of schedule, enabled by real-time interventions and consistent operational clarity.
These results aren’t anecdotal. They show what’s possible when technology supports the entire chain of delivery from frontline teams to strategic leadership. Faster decisions. Fewer blockers. Stronger performance.
AI safety improvement isn’t just about prediction. It’s about prevention. And prevention only works when insight arrives in real time.
While the sector evolves, some operators are already embedding AI into core delivery. They are not waiting for mandates or broad adoption. They are moving.
These organisations:
Enable live guidance to field teams through AI-powered assessments
Monitor risk, compliance, and progress without manual tracking
Prevent delays by resolving issues as they emerge
Align investment in technology with outcomes on site, not plans on paper
They are building infrastructure project delivery that meets today’s expectations and tomorrow’s resilience requirements.
The infrastructure and transport sectors are being asked to do more with tighter timelines, higher safety standards, and increasing public scrutiny. Legacy systems and disconnected workflows won’t meet those demands.
AI can deliver cleaner, faster, safer transport. But only if it’s deployed where delivery happens, not discussed where strategy is written.
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