Driverless cars and limitless energy: is this transport’s future?

Last week’s Independent Transport Commission annual lecture saw a leading scientist and a Network Rail chief engage in some crystal ball gazing about the future of transport.

‘Fusion: feasibility and the future of transport’ was the title of the Independent Transport Commission’s annual lecture held last week at London’s Science Museum. The audience, which included roads minister Stephen Hammond, was treated to a double-bill of Network Rail chairman Professor Richard Parry-Jones and Professor Steve Cowley, chief executive of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, and director of the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) in Oxfordshire (see...

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