CIHT have launched a Digital Skills Survey to understand how transport professionals personally rate their digital skills.
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How experienced are you at using artificial intelligence tools? Can you confidently find and analyse the data you need to meet project targets? Do you know how to protect your work from cybersecurity threats?
CIHT would like you to answer these questions by completing our Digital Skills Survey. The survey should not take more than 5 minutes to complete. Your answers will help us to assess current capabilities and set recommendations so that the average transport professional can feel that they are equipped with the skills needed to embrace new technologies, now and in the future.
Simply put, digital skills are our ability to utilise digital technologies. Of course, ‘digital technologies’ is a vast umbrella term that can encompass many things, but some common technologies most of us will be familiar with range from word processing software (Microsoft Word), virtual meeting platforms (Microsoft Teams, Zoom, etc.), email management (Outlook, Gmail, etc.) and social media (LinkedIn, X, TikTok etc).
However, are we as familiar with these technologies as we would like to be?
A recent report from FutureDotNow revealed that 59% of the UK labour force are missing basic digital skills around safety, productivity and more.
Through the research undertaken to produce CIHT’s recent report on ‘the role of data and artificial intelligence in achieving transport decarbonisation’, the CIHT Policy and Technical team identified the potential risk that the transport sector could be facing a digital skills gap.
The term ‘digital skills gap’ used here refers to the growing disparity between the technological advancements of the industry and the existing skill sets of its workforce.
Through an initial workshop held with our CIHT Technical Champions and Emerging Professional Network, we identified five key digital skills we think transport professionals will need to be confident in, for the future of transport.
These areas were:
Please complete this short survey to help us gather a picture of current digital skill capabilities within the transport sector.
We predict that this survey will take less than 5 minutes for you to complete, and the information we gain from it will be incredibly useful to the CIHT Policy and Technical team as they research this topic.
If you need any assistance in completing this survey, or you have any questions about this project and the work the CIHT Policy and Technical team are undertaking, please email technical@ciht.org.uk
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