What role can infrastructure service providers and their investors/owners play in supporting customers and society more broadly through the current cost of living crisis? For example, how are utilities providers stepping up to support vulnerable customers in London, which has far higher income inequalities and some of the highest deprivation in the country? What role is there for increasing private infrastructure investment to remove burdens on public expenditure and to move towards more user-pay models of financing in the capital?

Transport for London was twice as reliant on passenger fare revenue as comparable international systems and the funding model is now under review. Great British Railways is promising a ticketing revolution but reforming fares themselves isn’t guaranteed. Meanwhile, Germany offers a monthly travel pass costing just 9EUR and Spain offers free rail travel. With the transition to net zero becoming more urgent, the cost of living increasing, and some passengers still hesitant to return to the network, is now the time for a fundamental re-think of public transport fares?

The race to net zero is creating a boom in innovation as infrastructure sectors push ahead towards this new future. But can regulation keep up? Can it be designed to foster innovation rather than constrain it? And how can we enable a regulatory framework that takes a long-term view, to provide confidence to the market to invest for the sustainable infrastructure that we need over the long-term?

Quick-fire interviews on the latest innovations on the transition to Net Zero and their potential to drive acceleration in the capital.

How will we accelerate London’s retrofit challenge and what type of support is needed for businesses?

How are smart systems and data helping to improve infrastructure efficiency, reduce waste, cut carbon emissions and most importantly provide better services to Londoners? What can we learn from other cities across the globe? Where is the current best practice?

How are smart systems and data helping to improve infrastructure efficiency, reduce waste, cut carbon emissions and most importantly provide better services to Londoners? What can we learn from other cities across the globe? Where is the current best practice?

How can the sector improve I&D to be more attractive in the future? What benefits can this bring for business growth and development?

How we move people and goods around the city is evolving – and it needs to if it is going to keep pace with changing technology and patterns of demand. From the future of road pricing to new forms of micro mobility to better use of the rivers to expanding the use of shared vehicles, meeting the Mayor’s 2030 targets mean all avenues need to be rapidly explored. How can we do this in a coordinated way? How do we avoid a piecemeal approach?

Transport for London has been surviving for more than two years on short-term handouts from the Treasury. Everyone is agreed that the capital needs a sustainable long-term deal if it is to invest in the maintenance and upgrades necessary to keep the network functioning. With a new government in place, what are the prospects of achieving this? How can we help to get a deal done? And where do we go if the final deal is inadequate for the city’s needs?

With large-scale investments – from runways to railways – in the capital almost universally on ice since the start of the pandemic, how do we re-make the case for growth and investment? What are the right projects for the world in which we now find ourselves? And what are the lessons from Crossrail and other projects that will help to get things moving again?