The Department for Transport published its Transport Resilience Strategy on Monday 2 November 2026, setting out the government's direction for strengthening the UK transport system over the next five to ten years. The strategy puts into practice for transport the wider resilience approach set out in the government's Resilience Action Plan of July 2025, and it covers risks ranging from routine disruption and severe weather to cyber incidents, supply-chain shocks, utility failures, industrial action, pandemics and hostile activity.

Three objectives, 22 commitments

The department has organised the strategy around three objectives: continuously assessing resilience, enabling the transport system and its users to build resilience, and strengthening the government's own transport-resilience capability. It makes 22 practical commitments, including a new Transport Resilience Network bringing together resilience professionals across the sector, and a Transport Resilience Academy pilot for selected local areas, offering tailored learning and workshops.

Flooding exposure highlighted

The strategy identifies dependencies on energy, communications, digital systems and supply chains as particular areas of focus. It also highlights exposure to flooding, stating that 37% of railways and 38% of roads in England are currently in areas at risk from at least one source of flooding. The document names the Civil Aviation Authority, the Office of Rail and Road and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency among the regulators of the existing regimes it complements.

What it does not do yet

The publication does not introduce immediate new statutory requirements and does not announce a new funding pot. Instead, the department will translate its commitments into a delivery plan setting out priorities, sequencing, roles and accountability, with implementation progress feeding annually into the Cabinet Office's Statement to Parliament on risk and resilience.

Sources: GOV.UK, Building transport resilience, 2 November 2026; Department for Transport Transport Resilience Strategy summary.