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It’s probably fair to say that Introducing driverless cars to UK roads was Innovate UK’s most high profile funding competition in 2014 – that went on to allocate £19 million to three consortia to test driverless cars on UK roads for the first time.
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In the pre-election period this competition was championed at high levels of government; with the then Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Vince Cable personally presenting the winning projects live on radio news and in television news features.
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A year on, and the same department is investing even more funds to maintain its push to position the UK as a leader in autonomous vehicle know-how, this time committing up to £20 million through Innovate UK’s newly launched Connected and Autonomous Vehicles competition.
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Transport technology news
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The KTN organised Clean Sky 2 Information Day on 15 December Clean - held at the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills headquarters in London - was one of a series of such...
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KTN will next year again be supporting Resource , the leading conference-led exhibition designed to help businesses take steps towards resource efficiency and the circular economy. Resource...
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Presentations and live discussions held at the Transport SME Innovation Day in Brussels on 23 November 2015 have been made available to view online. According to Louise Mothersole, the...
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To assist potential applicants for the China-UK Newton Fund Research & Innovation Bridges Competition KTN is offering a subsidised tour to China, with provisional dates of 16 to...
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Today is the final day to register for the London Clean Sky 2 Information Day , on 15 December, featuring the funding opportunities presented by the latest wave of calls for potential ’Core...
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Speaking yesterday at Innovate2015, Business Secretary Sajid Javid announced the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills is to set up an independent hub for expert advice on “Smart...
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The official version of the Horizon 2020 Transport Work Programme for 2016/2017 - Smart, green and integrated transport was published on 13 October 2015. Within the €16 billion work...
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KTN is organising the UK information day for potential ’Core Partners’ for a third wave of calls under the €4 billion Clean Sky 2 aeronautical research programme , in the areas of Large...
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IC tomorrow, an Innovate UK programme to stimulate innovation and economic growth in the digital sector, is next Tuesday hosting a briefing event in central London about its Intelligent...
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The University of Southampton is hosting a launch event on 8 December in London for its futureworlds.com website, to promote its platform for startup and spinout companies. ...
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Innovate 2015 , co-hosted by Innovate UK and UK Trade and Investment (UKTI), will gather more than 3,000 UK businesses with investors, buyers, academic institutions and global companies to...
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Digital Catapult is seeking proposals from companies with expertise in sensors technologies or data analytics solutions that could be applicable to large construction projects. ...
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The KTN is organising a webinar on Friday 11 December to promote Innovate UK’s a Energy Game Changer competition that opens next year, that will offer a total of up to £1.5m for feasibility...
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In the second webinar to assist application for its Transport Technology Research Innovations Grant the Department for Transport’s Neil Ebenezer emphasised that applicants should hone in on justifying the potential for innovation and wider impact on the department’s priorities in proposals.
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For the current, third, iteration of its Transport Technologies Innovations Grant (T-TRIG), the Department for Transport has streamlined the application form to five questions, weighting in favour of applications the strongest in terms of innovation and potential impact on it’s priorities and for UK transport.
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KTN hosted a second webinar to assist potential applicants on 16 October, during which Iarla Kilbane-Dawe, DfT’s Head of Research Delivery, reemphasised that proposals needn't be limited to the suggested six challenges, and should be designed to help support local decision making on air quality issues.
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For its Transport Technologies Innovations Grant (T-TRIG) scheme, the Department for Transport has so far funded 25 projects: including eleven early-stage transport innovation grants resulting from the 2014 pilot competition and a further fourteen arising from the June 2015 round of this rolling grant funding call.
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For the pilot scheme, launched in December 2014, DfT said that the funded projects have led to "some technologies being patented, press releases on some projects as well as further funding discussions for several of the other projects".
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The Department for Transport (DfT) has today (19 October) released documentation and application form for its open-call competition to support early stage research projects which could lead to the development of successful new transport products, processes or services.
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The Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) has commissioned a study to help it understand the scope of aviation and the potential areas of innovation where KTN could best add value. The study is being carried out by Richard Pitman, of Pitman & Co Ltd, working closely with the KTN Transport team.
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On Monday 19 October The Department for Transport (DfT) opens its second Transport Technology Research Innovations Grant (T-TRIG) for 2015.
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On Wednesday 7 October, KTN hosted the latest in as series of webinars to promote the opportunities for transport relating funding support presented by Horizon 2020, biggest EU Research and...
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KTN hosted the first of two promotional webinars on Monday 12 October coinciding with the opening for applications of the Department for Transport’s Local Transport Air Quality Challenge Innovation Grant. This webinar provided first-hand details of the process and requirements of applying for full grant funding to test novel ideas for addressing six specified local air quality ‘challenges’.
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The European Commission is organising a Transport SME Innovation Day for Monday 23 November 2015 in the Charlemagne building, rue de la Loi 170, in Brussels. The event is open to all...
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Ahead of the opening and supporting webinars on Monday and Friday for its Local Transport Air Quality Challenge Innovation Grant, the Department for Transport has released headline information of the four projects it funded under last year's similar open competition - dealing more specificaly with innovative ideas for mitigating nitrogen oxides levels in localised areas.
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On Monday 12 October, The Department for Transport (DfT) is to open a call for proposals from consortia of academic or private sector researchers and local authorities with novel ideas for dealing with air quality challenges resulting from transportation.
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Applications will be accepted from Monday 12 October 2015, to midnight on Monday 2 November 2015. All work is to be completed and written up by 21 March 2016.
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H2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020). There is over €50m per year for the next two years that has been ring-fenced for small and medium sized businesses working in the Transport sector, each of which can apply for over €2.5m without any requirement to collaborate.
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Within that the SME instrument supports close-to-market activities, with the aim to give a strong boost to breakthrough innovation. Highly innovative SMEs with a clear commercial ambition and a potential for high growth and internationalisation are the prime target.
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According to Louise, “we have now significant lessons learned and links to additional useful information to help increase probability of success.”
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As part of the government’s Cutting Red Tape programme the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and the Cabinet Office are holding a series of...
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Just ahead of KTN’s European Green Vehicle Initiative Brokerage Event today at Transport Systems Catapult, the European Commission has published draft versions of the Horizon 2020 work...
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In Tuesday’s webinar presentation, UK’s national point for Transport Louise Mothersole, said she’ll be emphasising opportunities in the automotive sector for the forthcoming round of calls as...
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The Institute’s goal is to ensure the UK is a leading nation for wing and wing component design and supply; in civil turbofan engines; is competitive in systems such as power, communications and landing gear; and a centre for helicopter design, integration and manufacture and can introduce new civil aircraft architectures.
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Frost & Sullivan’s summing up of presentations of speakers at it’s annual intelligent mobility event, was that technological innovation is transforming mobility, turning it into an ‘Asset light, Technology heavy industry'.
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New business models and trends in mobility, corporate mobility, integrated transport solutions as well as for connected and autonomous vehicles were presented and discussed by over 330 executives during Frost & Sullivan’s “Intelligent Mobility” event at Kensington Gardens Hotel on 2 July.
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Tempting as it may be to suggest harmonius consensus, regardless of a trend towards service models, industry incumbents and purveyors of new business models are, however, all fighting for position in the ‘value chain’.
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Or, as Dr George Gillespie of MIRA put it in connection with moves from the likes of Apple and Google to provide the interface for cars, “do you really want to be in the white goods business or do you want to capitalise the value of the person trapped in the vehicle.”
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The Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) ran a series of workshops and talks at New Designers 2015 - the design graduate exhibition held in early July at the Business Design Centre, Islington. ...
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Ahead of publication the 2016/2017 Horizon 2020 Transport Programme on 15 July 2015 at ICC, Birmingham, KTN hosted a special event to preview the funding programme for potential UK bidders, help initiate collaborations and facilitate networking across transport sectors.
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Of particular interest was Louise Mothersole’s Preview of Horizon 2020 Transport programme for 2016 expected for publication in second week in September.
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The preview event was opened and the approximate 280 attendees welcomed by KTN’s Ian Stock.
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Last Wednesday (15 July) Innovate UK held a competition briefing webinar, providing a live update on the application process and scope for its Game-changing-technologies-for-aerospace...
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To follow-up the recent webinars promoting the Department for Transport’s T-TRIG competition, we present for your viewing pleasure both screencast recordings, plus presentation slides to assist in applying for funding of up to £25,000 to research to support innovative science, technology and engineering ideas that could improve UK transport.
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The takeaway message from Louise Mothersole's webinar on 29 June - all about ‘building a winning team’ for Horizon 2020 funding proposals - was the best way to find good funding partners, and influence future calls, is to be to be engaged with European level technology platforms and associations.
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T-TRIG will result in the award of fully-funded grants of up to £25,000 to research novel ideas for improving transport in the UK, and this time provides a special incentive to smaller operators of a 30% advance payment option.
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At the official opening of the Aerospace Research Centre in Coventry on Monday (22 June 2015) Business Minister Anna Soubry announced the launch of the £10 million HITEA3 competition to...
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The Department of Transport (DfT) has told us that, next Monday, it will open for entries the first regular round of application periods for its Transport Technology Innovation Grants (T-TRIG) competition, offering fully-funded grants of up to £25,000 to help stimulate novel ideas in transport.
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To inform government policy and the innovation support provided to businesses, researchers at Lancaster University and Manchester Business School, together with the University of Glasgow School...
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KTN is to host the fourth in series of live online webinars later this month, to assist UK businesses considering applying for funding under forthcoming transport-related Horizon 2020 funding...
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Alongside the New Designers show at The Business Design Centre, Islington, next month the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) - based in the same building - will next month host a series of...
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Innovate UK is currently offer an 'early bird' discounts to attend its yearly flagship exhibition - Innovate 2015 . Early bird tickets are now available, for...
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The 2015 WISE Awards are now open for nominations for individuals and organisations that deserve recognition for the support they give for girls and women in science, technology,...
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In response to the March 2013 House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee inquiry Bridging the Valley of Death: Improving the Commercialisation of Research , Innovate UK is...
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Knowledge Transfer Network, in cooperation with Innovate UK , will be hosting a special preview event at Birmingham’s ICC Centre on 15 July, offering first sight of the next round of ...
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The European Commission has, on 23 April, called for applications from experts in the alternative fuels sector to apply for membership of a Sustainable Transport Forum (STF) to help the...
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As part of Bristol’s celebrations as European Green Capital 2015 - on Wednesday 20 May 2015 KTN is supporting the free open workshop, Delivering local low carbon transport and power...
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The European Commission has issued a Call for Applications for members of an expert group on Digital Transport and Logistics – to be known as The Digital Transport and Logistics Forum...
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When it comes to achieving influence within Horizon 2020, and increased chance of funding for its projects, as far as the UK national contact point for transport for this European programme is...
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The Department for Science and Technology (DST) of the French Embassy in London, in collaboration with the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) Composite Materials Group, are to host a two day...
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A collaborative research and development competition on Creating smart products from smart materials , run by Innovate UK and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council...
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Venturefest East Midlands - at East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham on Tuesday 14 April 2015 - is the next of the Innovate UK and ...
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This summer Innovate UK will be accepting applications for a third HITEA competition - offering up to £10 million for collaborative research and development and feasibility studies to accelerate...
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National Contact Point for Transport for Horizon 2020 Louise Mothersole will next month be providing an insider’s overview about how interested parties can influence the shape of future...
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Since being established in 1997, the RSE Enterprise Fellowship scheme has supported more than 180 researchers to develop and launch new businesses, with companies formed across a wide range of...
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Dame Ann Dowling DBE FREng FRS has been commisioned by the Minister for Universities, Science and Cities, Rt Hon Greg Clark MP, to lead a review that will examine how government can support...
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12 February 2015 - The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills last week announced funding of £100 million to support six (including £20 million of investment in skills and £80...
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10 February 2015 - Last Friday, KTN hosted the second in a series of webinars on opportunities this year for transport related funding within the Horizon 2020 programme, “ostensibly”, according...
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Manufacturing employers, of all sizes, have a chance to bid for funding worth up £150,000 each to test ideas for how to better manage the process of innovation. Over the next six weeks,...
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23 January 2015 - The Department for Transport (DfT) is offering to fund short, sharp, potentially ambitious projects that use science, engineering and technology to help facilitate a more efficient transport system in the UK. The Transport Technology Research Innovations Grant (T-TRIG) competition is open to all transport challenges aligned with the Department’s priorities and policies, with a premium placed on innovation.
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KTN hosted two webinars last week (6 & 7 January 2015) at the Department for Transport, to introduce the new pilot T-TRIG competition designed to stimulate tech-based research in transport - with a premium placed on innovation.
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Intelligent Mobility
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The Driverless Technology Conference and Exhibition (DTCE15), organised by Charles Maxwell Ltd and held at ILEC London, 23 November, was notable for contributions by participants in each of the three projects supported through the Introducing driverless cars to UK roads competition. All three projects are now underway although none, as yet, have their driverless test vehicles operating on city streets.
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On day 2 of Highways UK, the Highways England supported exhibition and conference, a new professional association to promote the UK transport technology sector will be introduced to the UK intelligent transport systems sector, by one of its instigators Daniel Ruiz.
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The EU Commission is seeking input from interested parties into a consultation on provision of EU-wide multimodal travel information services . Replies submitted to this public consultation...
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Following on from the Enhancing the End to End Journey in Manchester on 17 September KTN travelled up to Edinburgh to spread the word in Scotland. The event at the Radisson S A S Hotel...
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To launch and promote Innovate UK's Enhancing the End to End Journey competition a briefing and networking event was held in London on 19 August, that also provided opportunities for in-person and online networking for companies considering putting together proposals for industrial research projects.
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In partnership with Innovate UK’s IC Tomorrow Programme , on 30 September the Knowledge Transfer Network hosts a ‘Smart Spaces Speed Networking’ event to be held at Future Cities Catapult...
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KTN will be hosting a consortia building event for the Innovate UK Enhancing the End-to-End Journey competition, to take place on Tuesday 22 September 2015, from 10:00 to 17:00, at the...
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Innovate UK today opened for applicants its Enhancing the end-to-end journey competition , offering investment of up to £10 million in collaborative R&D projects intended to ‘catalyse...
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KTN will be hosting additional consortia building events for a forthcoming Innovate UK Enhancing the End to End Journey competition - the first on 17 September at The Studio, 51 Lever Street,...
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Encouraged by a potential boost from intelligent vehicles to the UK economy estimated to be worth £51 billion per year and 320,000 additional jobs by 2030, The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is investing up to £20 million to support industry through Innovate UK’s Connected and Autonomous Vehicles competition.
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Innovate UK has opened registration for a briefing event in London on Wednesday 19 August 2015 to assist potential applicants for a forthcoming ‘Enhancing the end to end journey’ competition . ...
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According to computer security expert Steve Gibson, it’s a principle of cybersecurity that, “attacks only get more capable over time”.
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As as products become more connected, and threats evolve, industry will need to be vigilant and responsive to cybersecurity - as illustrated by the first demonstration of a production car being remotely controlled over the internet.
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Researchers demonstrated to Wired magazine and other media the ability to take control of major systems of a Jeep Cherokee SUV via its UConnect connectivity and entertainment system over from a laptop due to the combined effects of at least two security missteps. On 23 July Fiat Chrysler Automative (FCA) issued a recall to patch to address patching of the firmware of the 1.4 million affected vehicles and Sprint (the wireless service provider) closed the open cellular connection to the vehicle that provided unauthorised access to the vehicle network.
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In the UK, support is available to businesses in the form of vouchers to small businesses, Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and the forthcoming Cyber Security Pre-Accelerator Programme.
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Highways England has announced the award of contracts for six joint-venture companies to design and build 10 'smart motorways' across England as part of a £1.55 billion investment . Three...
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The government has announced (on 19 July 2015) the launch of a £20 million competitive fund for collaborative research and development into driverless vehicles , along with a code of practice...
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In a recent article in the Financial Times featuring developments in driverless cars testing as exhibited at Transport Systems Catapult’s Imagine Festival Tim Armitage , who is leading a trial...
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With the promise of £100 million investment for intelligent mobility made by the Chancellor in the first 2015 Budget, The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has recently published...
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The Institute for Sustainability, in partnership with the Mayor of London’s Office , has launched the Connecting people and creating communities competition to encourage small...
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Arup - the design, planning, and engineering company - has launched its Global Research Challenge 2015 , offering up to £50,000 to support up to eight projects with potential to help better...
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Consulting company Frost & Sullivan is to host its seventh Annual Intelligent Mobility 3.0 workshop, Intelligent Mobility - Future Business Models in Connected...
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A report prepared for the Transport Systems Catapult by Integrated Transport Planning Ltd, together with White Willow Consulting, Advancing Sustainability, and the University of Nottingham Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute, says that the UK needs to move much faster to plug various “open data” gaps in order to be a leader in the Intelligent Mobility market.
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In today’s Budget, The Chancellor of the Exchequer made a number of transport and infrastructure related announcements, including a £100 million investment into the Research and Development of Intelligent Mobility, focused on driverless cars and the systems required to support their introduction.
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In his speech George Osborne said the government would, “back our brilliant automotive industry by investing £100 million to stay ahead in the race to driverless technology.”
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The 2015 Budget was stated as a, 'significant package of measures for a truly national recovery by investing in infrastructure, housing, science and innovation across the whole of the UK'.
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Taking the position that quality of the user’s experience is as important, or perhaps more important, than speed to market, Innovate UK is to invest up to £2 million to support feasibility...
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A new report from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) calls for greater industry collaboration and transparency in developing connected and driverless cars. This will help ensure that future autonomous vehicles are safe from cyber threats.
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Cars are already more ‘intelligent’: driver assistance systems, alerts and notifications, cameras and in-vehicle decision support systems are already commonplace. Over the coming years, connected technologies between both vehicles themselves and the transport infrastructure will become an integral feature of the global car market, worth €39bn to the market by 2018. The increasing use of connectivity in and between cars has put pressure on manufacturers and consumers to ensure connected systems remain safe.
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Automotive Cyber Security reviews the progress made in developing technology like driverless cars, identifying possible cyber security vulnerabilities and highlighting how a number of manufacturers in the automotive industry are responding to fears that cars of the future could be ‘hacked’.
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This review, based on research and consultation with industry, outlines a number of potential issues and threats including:
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personal data theft
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fraud and deception (altering or deleting schedule logs and records)
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freight and goods theft
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automotive ‘hacktivism’ – cyber infiltration of a vehicle’s systems that is politically or ideologically motivated
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immobilisation
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inflicting disruption, damage and even injury out of spite
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On Friday 6 March, following an inquiry into future transport technologies, the House of Commons Select Transport Committee published a report Motoring of the future that ...
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In preparation for “refocusing the strategy in the next year”, the European Commission has opened a 12 week consultation to collect views of stakeholders on implementation and challenges for...
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20 February 2015 - Volvo yesterday held an online press conference in which it unveiled the technology behind its Drive Me programme , which it claims will be the first large...
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12 February 2015 - On the day The Infrastructure Act became law , The Department for transport highlighted what could be interpreted as a decline in performance of A roads in terms of...
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Elżbieta Bieńkowska, EU Commissioner responsible for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMES, has announced a CARS 2020 Action Plan for the automotive industry , placing innovation...
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12 February 2015 - The Department for Transport yesterday published its review of road legislation required to allow development of driverless car technology that gave approval for limited...
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5 February 2015 - Coinciding with an announcement yesterday of a two-year study into new personal mobility models in partnership with with Aachen University, Ford Motor Company President and CEO...
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The Institute for Sustainability , in partnership with the Mayor of London’s Office , this week opened a competition offering support and promotion to SMEs that have smart innovations...
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The company, that is now a public body, said it believes that being transparent in how it works as a company and it works with stakeholders is integral to the success of the business; and is one of its main themes in its strategic business plan for the next five years.
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The European Commission has announced the adoption of new rules for Real-Time Traffic Information claimed to provide road users across the EU with more accurate, accessible and up-to-date...
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Energy Efficiency
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edie Live, formerly Sustainability Live, an exhibition on energy, sustainability and resource efficiency to be held next May at the NEC, will feature an opportunity for SMEs to present new...
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Boosted by the announcement in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement that its funding plans are to be protected , this week The Advanced Propulsion centre announced a forthcoming compeition named...
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My Electric Avenue, a three-year Ofgem-funded project that has been carrying out trials to discover the impact that charging clusters of electric vehicles (EVs) might have on local electricity networks at peak times, has extrapolated its findings to state that, across Britain, 32% of local electricity networks (312,000 circuits) will require intervention when 40% - 70% of customers have EVs.
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To assist with applications for the Horizon 2020 Nature Based Solutions and Smart Cities Communities EU funding calls (one of which includes 'electromobility' within its scope), this month's KTN...
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Leading up to the COP21 international climate talks in Paris , ENGIE (the French energy company), National Physics Laboratory , Climate-KIC (an EU climate innovation...
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Two deadlines of significance to vehicle emissions reduction are coming up in the first week November. Firstly, midnight of Monday 2 November is the strict deadline for applying to the ...
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As its Ofgem Low Carbon Networks funding comes to an end, the My Electric Avenue project a Turning the Corner finale event on 3 December 2015 to share its results of its trials of the effects of operating high local concentrations of electric vehicles on the electrical grid.
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The event will also provide details of what is described as a ‘Legacy Initiative’ to provide the platform for collaboration between the automotive and utilities sectors.
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The High Speed Sustainable Manufacturing Institute (HSSMI), a research and technology development not-for-profit, is hosting a free to attend meeting in partnership with EnvAqua Solutions, ...
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Shell Springboard provides funding to UK entrepreneurs at the cutting-edge of the low-carbon economy. In 2016 funding awards of up to £150,000 are available for small enterprises with...
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KTN Materials team is hosting its HiPerNano 2015 exhibition at the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining High Performance Nano-engineering in London on 2 and 3 November with the aim...
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The fifteen winning 15 projects being supported for the The Adapting cutting-edge technologies competition include potential innovations in lightweigting of electric and internal combustion engined vehicles, improved engine efficiencies and emission reduction, improved EV battery and thermal management, energy recovery systems, non-venting LNG for HGVs and a zero emission bus.
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By chance or by prescient timing, on the day following official release of the Draft Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2016-2017 for ‘Smart, green and integrated transport’, KTN hosted a brokerage event for the European Green Vehicle Initiative (EGVI), that's one of three ‘calls’ within the EU Commission programme, that attracted 48 delegates to explore its funding and collbaoration opportunities.
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A consortium led by Innovate UK , and comprising Department of Energy & Climate Change , Transport Scotland (working with Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Government ), KTN , UK...
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In Droitwich, Worcester, on 3 September KTN helped engender lively networking and promotional endeavours for some of the most potentially rewarding funding support for UK businesses seeking to rise the chalelnge made by Innovate UK for industry to go even further in innovating to reduce CO2 emissions of road vehicles.
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In the Regents conference centre, behind Chateau Impney, built Louis XIII style by the nineteenth century salt magnate John Corbett, a beneficiary of the country’s canal infrastructure. More recently, in keeping with a location at the heart of the UK motor industry, the grounds were host to the Chateau Impney Hill Climb speed trials.
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Both competitions offered support to innovative, commercial solutions to increase the resilience, quality of life or economic performance of urban areas by integrating environmental, social and/or economic data with data from other sources, with the projects to last two years and the feasibility studies one year.
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OXIS Energy has announced its participation in the ALISE project , a €6.9 million Horizon 2020 funded pan European collaboration that is setting out to develop and commercially scale-up...
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Highways England has announced that it is commissioning test track trials of wireless charging technology for charing electric and hybrid vehicles are to take place later this year. This...
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Innovate UK and the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) have today officially announced the scope and supporting event signups details for two new competitions to support the automotive...
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Innovate UK will be opening two competitions next month relevant to low carbon vehicles, both to offer significant funding to encourage development of technologies with potential to further...
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Ahead of its annual conference, LowCVP has published a series of roadmaps for how to expand the low carbon fuels infrastructure required to meet climate change commitments could come about,...
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This Wednesday’s Financial Times included a feature on Bridgnorth, Shropshire, based maker of high-integrity castings Grainger & Worrall , ostensibly as a study of the management issues in...
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A recent report produced by CE publications and commissioned by Greenpeace claims that almost half of domestic transport emissions are from corporate fleets, and 8% of total EU GHG...
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Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) will again be a highly visible presence at this year’s Cenex-LCV show - the UK’s premier low carbon vehicle event, to be held at Millbrook Proving Ground,...
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Tell us how we can help! We're looking to form a picture of what activities may, or may not, be underway in local efforts to de-carbonise vehicle fleets, to enable development of a...
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Subsequent to its declaration of interest in participating in the soon to close Spearheading Electric Vehicle Battery Production competition , Sheffield-based battery R&D business...
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As an update to its previously announced Fourth APC Funding Competition , the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC), in partnership with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)...
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The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has this week heralded the latest reported emissions levels of newly registered vehicles showing a continued reduction in average...
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On 15 April 2015 in Solihull, prospective candidate companies grasped an early opportunity to impress with their suitability as potential partners at the Innovate UK and Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) Spearheading electric vehicle battery production competition briefing and networking event.
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Last month The Advanced Propulsion Centre announced £80 million of funding for four projects designed to bring fuel cells into van fleets, develop high efficiency transmissions and new...
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Innovate UK announced on 25 March investment, with the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV), combined investment of up to £10 million for a consortium to develop a...
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Ricardo-AEA, in partnership with another consultancy company E4tech, has been retained to administer the UK Government’s Office for Low Emission Vehicles’ (OLEV) ‘hydrogen refuelling...
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19 January 2015 - Nissan has announced today that its Nissan LEAF all-electric car has increased its sales volume in Europe by 33% in Europe in 2014 , gaining more than a quarter share of the...
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The 43 months ENIAC and EU FP7 supported MotorBrain project - that researched increased range and reliability of electric vehicles with reduced dependence of rare earth metals - has ...
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Power and automation company ABB announced on 16 December the launch of the TEN-T Co-Funded Project European Long-Distance Electric Clean Transport Road Infrastructure Corridor (aka ELECTRIC) ....
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Vessel Efficiency
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Our colleagues in KTN’s Electronics, Sensors, Photonics community, working with Air Accidents Investigation Branch , are seeking expert advice on a planned SBRI call for more efficient and...
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The competition results were published by Innovate UK in a document dated 7 April 2015 listing eight projects that succeeded in the assessment stage of this competition, noting that these were subject to grant offer and conditions being met.
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A consortium of UK companies and academic partners, led by Reddich-based electronics components and systems supplier Steatite , and co-funded by Innovate UK , has announced that it is to...
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12 February 2015 - Silverstream Technologies and Shell last week announced findings of sea trial of Silverstream Technologies’ air lubrication technology for ships , the Silverstream...
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15 January 2015 - Innovate UK has today announced the opening of the Improving energy efficiency at sea: Managing energy on marine vessels competition , offering £7.5 million of grant...
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The Marine Industries Leadership Council (MILC) is currently arranging workshops for the marine industry to help develop future strategies for guiding research priorities. The outcome of which...
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Rail
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As previewed by Mark Gaddes of FutureRail at the RSSB and KTN Review of Horizon 2020 Work Programmes in October , Shift2Rail, the Joint Undertaking backed by the Commission and the rail...
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Held at RSSB, at The Helicon, 1 South Place, London, the Review of Horizon 2020 Work Programmes & Collaboration Opportunities with the Rail Industry was chaired and opened by Martin Brennan, RSSB’s Senior Research Policy Manager.
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RSSB (Rail Safety and Standards Board) and Future Railway (a collaboration between Network Rail and RSSB to support innovation in the delivery of the Rail Technical Strategy) have identified...
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RSSB last week announced brief details of three projects selected to go to the second stage of its Train Operator Competition 2015 (TOC’15), launched in March to help co-fund strategic...
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In response to the Future Railway programme’s April 2014 Rail Operator Competition Challenge (ROCC) - under which RSSB and the Department for Transport offered to fund innovative proposals...
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Ricardo yesterday announced that its research conducted with Artemis Intelligent Power and Bombardier Transportation has confirmed the potential for 10% real-life fuel savings for integrating...
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The Department of Transport, together with the Department of culture media and sport, is conducting a consultation exercise requesting views on improving mobile communications for UK rail...
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Omnicom Engineering , the York-based rail systems company, announced it was awarded the 2015 Future Railway Innovation Award for its proposed RailNavigator product, a low cost advanced...
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A panel of representatives from The Association of Train Operating Companies , Railway Industry Association and Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) has selected three projects to be...
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RSSB and the Department for Transport have, on 17 March, launched the Train Operator Competition 2015 (TOC’15), as part of the Future Railway programme, that will offer £6m to co-fund...
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Today Virgin Trains announced it is replacing traditional seats with exercise bikes, cross trainers and running machines to create the world’s first ever on-board travelling gym on its fleet...
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StaaS is a two-year, £2 million, collaborative innovation project co-funded by Innovate UK and RSSB under the second Accelerating innovation in Rail Enabling the Digital Railway competition, with the goal of creating a new technical, operational and commercial model for future stations.
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When the authoritative account of the development of the smooth-running, modern, customer-friendly rail system comes to be written, the KTN organised consortia building event for the Enhancing...
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nnovate UK has official announced the launch of the enhancing customer experience in rail travel competition , and, overnight, published the competition page on its...
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Ahead of the competition launch on Monday in Coventry, Innovate UK has released the scope document for the Enhancing Customer Experience in Rail Travel competition, that with the...
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On Monday 2 March, at Coventry University, KTN will host a consortium-building event for potential applicants for the jointly-funded Innovate UK, FutureRailway and RSSB third Accelerating...
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The stock excuse for lateness due to signal failure may about to become just a bad memory as the rail industry works on a system to overcome this all-to-familiar cause of delay on the network. ...
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FutureRailway is currently inviting entries for its COMbined Positioning Alternative Signalling System (COMPASS) competition and has also announced details of a briefing...
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Back in September we summarised the eighteen collaborative R&D projects funded in the first Accelerating Innovation in Rail competition . Ahead of the third competition in this...
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Innovate UK and FutureRailway/RSSB is to open for entries a third Accelerating Innovation in Rail competition offering investment to accelerate innovation in the UK rail industry - this time...
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15 January 2015 - N etwork Rail announced that the first battery-powered train to run on its rail network in more than half a century carried its first passengers this week, an important...
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