Foresight Vehicle is a collaboration between industry, academia and Government to identify and demonstrate technologies for sustainable road transport. Future products and technologies must meet social, economic and environmental goals, satisfying market requirements for mobility, safety, performance, cost and desirability, with the objectives of improving the quality of life and wealth creation in the UK.

The Foresight Vehicle technology roadmap has been developed to identify technology and research themes for road transport, aiming to support UK industry in the globally competitive market for transport products and to provide sustainable mobility for UK citizens. The roadmapping process has brought together more than 130 experts from across the road transport sector, from more than 60 organisations. The goal was to use the roadmap structure (Fig. 1) to capture and share the rich set of views about how road vehicle markets, products, systems and technologies will (and could) evolve in the next 20 years.