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title: "FUSION: How SYSTRA’s groundbreaking study will transform the future of travel data in the UK  "
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# FUSION: How SYSTRA’s groundbreaking study will transform the future of travel data in the UK  

![Person on mobile phone at in London Liverpool Street train station](https://www.systra.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2026/07/fusion-project_header.jpg)

The Department for Transport’s (DfT)
[FUSION project](https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6915e28cb49cc4434516176b/fusion-project-summary-report.pdf)
, led by SYSTRA with research partners [TravelAi](https://www.travelai.info/)
and [Yonder Data Solutions (YDS)](https://yonderdatasolutions.com/), set out to
tackle one of the biggest challenges in UK transport planning: the lack of
accurate, high-resolution, longitudinal data on how different people actually
travel.

In an era shaped by the rise of micromobility, fragmented multimodal travel and
hybrid working patterns, the limitations of traditional data collection methods
have become increasingly apparent and are now starting to show their age. More
may be possible using new data sources, such as from mobile phones, and tools,
such as AI.

FUSION set out to understand whether a new, scalable method can be developed to
integrate high-volume smartphone-sensor derived ‘big data’ collected through the
MyWays app with traditional contextual survey ‘deep data’ such as
socio-demographic information and qualitative insights. Together these data
sources will provide a much richer picture of travel behaviour, fusing the
where, when and how with the why. This then provides demographic information
which allows specific policy and evaluation needs to be targeted. Using
privacy-preserving methods and advanced analytics, the project demonstrated how
these emerging datasets can enhance, validate, and modernise the evidence base
used in UK transport planning.

The FUSION project demonstrates how the UK can evolve from the occasional,
survey-dependent insights into capturing timely, dynamic real-world travel
behaviour insights that are capable of supplying policymakers with an ongoing,
reliable evidence base. It offers a blueprint for a new era of data-driven
transport policy, one where real-world movement patterns can be monitored
continuously, analysed responsibly, and used to build a more efficient, safer,
more inclusive transport system for the UK and perhaps beyond.

Contact our team [here](https://www.systra.com/uk/contact/) to find out more
about the FUSION project and the services our specialists can provide.

To download the full report,
[click here](https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6915e28cb49cc4434516176b/fusion-project-summary-report.pdf)
.

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