Transport mode resilience

Whichever mode of transport you work in – be it aviation, rail, road, or logistics – the aim is to keep things ever-moving. And in an uncertain world, that has also become the resilience challenge: to move from a sporadic, ad-hoc response to a switched-on, fluid capability that can respond to whatever the disruption of the moment is.

As we explored in our first research report on transport resilience, The always-on advantage, transport leaders recognise this changing imperative. Now, our new report dives into the research findings across each transport mode. In doing so, we find four different routes to achieving always-on resilience.

Report

Is your organisation on route to gain the always-on advantage?

Find out how you can embed and elevate resilience within your mode, and shape the debate by sharing your views on what’s needed to build a more resilient transport system.

Navigating resilience by mode

While transport leaders excel at responding to small-scale operational issues, the last few years have brought a series of connected, transformative issues – from shifting passenger behaviour to economic uncertainty, and growing sustainability demands to global unrest.

Our research of 360 transport leaders across Europe found that:

Aviation

is the mode most likely to say that the importance placed on resilience has waned since the COVID-19 pandemic, and is the most likely mode to view resilience as a challenge rather than an opportunity

Rail

is the mode most likely to recognise that not being resilient costs more in the long term, yet also the most likely to believe that the worst disruption has already happened

Road

has seen the largest uptick in its rating of organisational resilience over the past two to three years, yet is still the most likely mode to cite a lack of relevant skills or knowledge around resilience

Logistics

is the mode most likely to see resilience as an opportunity, and is the least dependent mode on disruption as an accelerator of resilience.

Report

Is your organisation on route to gain the always-on advantage?

Find out how you can embed and elevate resilience within your mode, and shape the debate by sharing your views on what’s needed to build a more resilient transport system.

How we can help

Our teams provide leaders and their organisations with confidence that their decisions and plans are strengthened; their teams aligned; and that they’re ready to deal with strategic risks, and readiness and resilience challenges, while seeking and seizing new opportunities. To uplift resilience across organisations, we:

Develop a resilient mindset within your people and culture
Build a resilience muscle across processes and operations
Strengthen the resilience of your supply chain and wider ecosystem.

Our proven approach combines wargaming with analytics, systems thinking, scenario planning, contingency planning methods, and business and people psychology.

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