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January – June 2019

Academic Engagement Highlights

Welcome to our 5th edition of Academic Engagement Highlights, our first edition under the Connected Places Catapult brand. This brief and informative document will help you to get an insight of the Academic Engagement Programme activities of the CPC.

The Future Cities Catapult and the Transport Systems Catapult came together to form the Connected Places Catapult. We are proud to join forces across our two specialist areas of transport innovation and smart city technology to create new opportunities for our stakeholders and develop new markets and ecosystems in the arena of Connected Places. We are also excited to expand our reach across the country in our offices in Glasgow, Leeds, Milton Keynes and London.

As part of the Catapult Network we:• Work with industry, together with regional, national

and international partners, to commercialise innovation in a way that drives long-term benefit to the UK economy;

• Provide businesses in the sector or technology domain with access to the appropriate mixture of expertise, skills, facilities and equipment needed for them to invest in innovation and commercialisation where these are not readily available due to market failure or commercial risk;

• Work collaboratively with other Catapults, universities, and with the wider R&D ecosystem, to enable the development of innovative solutions to key challenges in the Catapult’s sector;

• Take an active role in removing industry-wide barriers to innovation and commercialisation where they exist.

Acknowledging the diversity and scale of the UK research base has always been the starting point of the activities we deliver. It is often said that UK universities are world leaders in research but not in commercialisation. However, we have met and worked with many excellent colleagues and teams who are creating world leading spin outs and incubating start-ups. Meanwhile, organisations such as the PraxisAuril are making sure that these people can learn from each other to increase the chances of future success stories.

Having sponsored ParxisAuril’s recent conference and getting insight into the heart of knowledge exchange, I am convinced that by joining forces, we will be able to tackle the 2.4% challenge and co-create the Knowledge Economy.

Beata SzoboszlaiAcademic Engagement Director

Introduction

2Connected Places Catapult | Academic Engagement Highlights

We focus on growing businesses with innovations in mobility services and the built environment that enable new levels of physical, digital and social connectivity. We operate at the intersection between public and private sectors and between local government and transport authorities. We convene the disparate parts of the market to help innovators navigate the complexity of doing business, creating new commercial opportunities and improving productivity, socio-economic and environmental benefits for places.

Academia delivers innovation, knowledge and thought leadership, but it must evolve its connections with the commercial world even further if it is to have social and economic impact and deliver better outcomes for the UK. By continuing to meet the changing needs of both academia and industry, and partnering with both, our strategic approach is designed to bring innovations to market faster, as well as understand and unlock new opportunities for exploitation.

Introducing CPC’s Academic Engagement Programme


We aspire to increase the likelihood of new ideas and innovations from academia reaching the market as finished products and services, which will maximise the economic impact of research currently being undertaken in the UK.

The Connected Places Catapult is at the global forefront of place-making technology. We provide expertise in, and access to, complex issues that help research organisations and universities expand their agenda. Our international industry, government and academic networks mean that we can disseminate research far and wide progressing it from theory to implementation.

Our signature activities include:

Deep Academic Alliances – Deeper strategic relationships developed with key universities based on breadth and depth best fits the Catapult’s strategy.

Research Advisory Panel – The RAP is a unique function of our refreshed academic engagement strategy, and forms a unique forum, meeting two to three times a year, to allow us a sustained discussion on the UK research base, funding priorities and excellence in translation of knowledge into the connected places business community.

Business Fellows Network – The BFN is a network of knowledge exchange experts working for with the Catapult on behalf of their university to bring research outputs closer to commercialisation. This will enable academics to increase their industry engagement, entrepreneurship and research.

Researchers in Residence – Researcher in Residence develops new collaborations through research visits/residencies for university academics to spend time embedded within the Catapult teams to build stronger partnerships in the national innovation system and supporting the best environment for innovation.

Capability Map – The map contains data about universities research, assets and current projects to help our industry partners discover what resources are available within our world leading universities.

Academic Network to Connect Places – Our Academic Network is our primary method of communicating with our academic stakeholders and researchers to tell them about our latest news events and opportunities.

Beata’s overarching responsibility lies in developing and implementing programmes and maintaining strategic working relationships with universities operating in the intelligent mobility and cities area. Her role includes building, communicating and executing an Academic Engagement Strategy to grow UK industry and employment in CPC’s key strategic areas, to enable engagement with academic stakeholders, direct research activities and maximise the industrial exploitation of the research outputs.

Beata has a significant expertise in different multi-cultural and international environment where she has developed several strategic collaborations between academia, industry and government from scratch. These projects enabled her to not only deliver complex, multi-level engagement activities, but also to develop high-level, valuable and transferable, sector-independent skills set.

Before joining CPC, Beata founded and led a social enterprise and developed it into a unique, exemplary, award winner (Nature Research Awards for Innovating Science). Beata read Sociology and Communication at Corvinus University of Budapest and specialised in Organisational Design and Psychology in Economy.

Will has responsibility for academic engagement related to the expertise of the teams and programmes in connected urban contexts, from housing to planning and standards. This includes management of the London based Deep Academic Alliances and various network programmes linking universities to business and policy.

Will’s background is in design and the creative industries; his previous full time role was six and a half years as a member of the Senior Management Team of a university delivering creative industries courses in south east London, overseeing all technical infrastructure and course support. He is also Chief External Examiner for a number of postgraduate courses at the University of Westminster, and recently worked with UCL Business on their third iteration of a transactional IP licensing platform for university-business knowledge transfer.

With a PhD from University College Dublin from the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, he is passionate about the role universities can play in supporting local economies and developing the skills for the future in competency based approaches, as well as encouraging the next generation of entrepreneurial graduates.

Beata SzoboszlaiAcademic Engagement Director

Will PearsonHead of Academic Engagement


The Academic Engagement Team


Julia has responsibility for academic engagement programme relating to the expertise of the teams and programmes focused on Transport Systems. She has developed and leads the Business Fellow Network and account manages CPC relationships with the Universities of Leeds, Nottingham and Cranfield under the Deep Academic Alliance Programme. She drove CPC support for TMC@Nottingham and initiated Connected Autonomous Vehicle Online Programme with the IET.

Prior to taking on a role in Academic Engagement, Julia led implementation of the Catapult’s Skills Strategy, including support offer for a number of Centres of Doctoral Training and Institutes of Technology and representation of the Catapult on the Automotive Council’s Skills Group.

Julia read Psycholinguistics at the University of Wroclaw, Poland, and is passionate about maximising opportunities for developing a common language and knowledge sharing. She has a strong track record of leadership and strategic management of large scale programmes within Higher Education, Civil Service and Industry focused on enabling business growth through education and skills, innovation and knowledge transfer.

Nick has been involved in numerous activities at the Catapult, including the establishment of the Business Fellows Network and managing the team’s Academic Network. Nick also leads on the creation of our University Capability Map with the aim of improving collaboration between universities and businesses. He also manages the Researchers in Residence portfolio as well as building relationships with Newcastle University and the University of Birmingham as a part of the Deep Academic Alliance Programme.

Nick joined the Catapult in July 2018 from the Office of the Vice Chancellor at the University of Northampton where he led the refurbishment of a Heritage Lottery Funded (£4.3m) Engine Shed. The refurbished building, now occupied by the Student’ Union, is a part of the universities £330m move to its new Waterside Campus which he was involved in the development of for over three years.

Julia BradyAcademic Engagement Delivery Lead

Nick WoodwardAcademic Engagement Coordinator


Deep Academic Alliances

The Connected Places Catapult are delighted to announce that three new Deep Academic Alliances have been signed with Newcastle University, University College London (UCL) and University of Birmingham. The new alliances add to the existing alliances which have already been signed with the Cranfield University, University of Leeds and University of Nottingham.

The details of our new alliances are as follows:

The alliance with Newcastle University will focus on the work carried out by the university’s National Innovation Centre for Ageing, the new National Innovation Centre for Data and the Urban Observatory – with the support of Phil Blythe, Professor of Intelligent Transport Systems.

The Catapult is excited to work with UCL to maximise the opportunities arising from UCL’s status as the only UK member of MOBiLus, a pan-European consortium which is working to set up an international innovation community for urban mobility. The programme is supported by Professor Nick Tyler, Director of the Centre for Transport Studies at the University.

The Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education (BCRRE) is expected to be a key area for collaboration with CPC and the University of Birmingham. BCRRE is the largest university-based centre for railway research and education in Europe, developing world-leading new technologies alongside renowned higher education programmes. The programme is supported by Clive Roberts, Professor of Rail Systems at the University.


Introducing our Leeds Office

The CPC has opened a new office within Nexus at the University of Leeds.

Nexus was launched in May 2019 with the aim of providing businesses with a new way of working with the University and its key partners. The new office provides easy access to our world-leading academic research experts and facilities, with particular focus on the University’s strengths in areas underpinning transport and cities.

Nexus and its state-of-the-art facilities will bring together a vibrant community of innovators, to be supported by a dedicated team, who work proactively with businesses to identify and create commercially impactful research partnerships. CPC is committed to play a key role in supporting the activity within Nexus.

The CPC will help the North west and Yorkshire regions access a £1.5 trillion global market opportunity to develop smart cities and transport technologies, such as self-driving cars. The region’s world leading tech businesses and Local Authorities will also benefit from links to the Catapult’s London, Milton Keynes and Glasgow offices.

Beata Szoboszlai talks more about the Connected Places Catapult partnership with the University of Leeds in her blog ‘The university hub that Leeds by example’.

Beata Szoboszlai – Academic Engagement Director

Blog: The university hub that ‘Leeds’ by example

Nexus Opening, From left to right: Dr Chris Rushton (CPC), Beata Szoboszlai (CPC), Professor Lisa Roberts (Leeds University), Mark Westwood (CPC), Dr Eric Thomasson (Leeds University), Dr Martin Stow (Nexus)


Virtuocity Launch

On 13th June 2019, the University of Leeds hosted a joint launch event for its Centre for Immersive Technologies and its Virtuocity centre for city simulation – under the banner, “Reinvent Reality with the Centre for Immersive Technologies and Virtuocity”. The event was based in the University’s “Nexus” innovation and enterprise centre and the CPC played a key supporting role in the event.

As well as the CEO of the Connected Places Catapult, Nicola Yates OBE, contributing to the VIP panel in the opening session, members of the team played an important role in the planning and delivery of one of the afternoon workshops, led by Professor Richard Romano, entitled: “Predicting demand of future transport systems with the support of immersive technologies”.

This session first involved a number of academics and industry partners delivering short presentations to set the scene and inspire the follow-on group workshop activity that involved a group of 30 contributors in total.

Overall, we were delighted to see the level of enthusiasm and discussion between participants and the level of networking and knowledge exchange that clearly took place. The University and Connected Places Catapult together established a number of leads to follow up – in terms of themes and material for future collaborative projects as well as renewed, or in some cases, new contacts. We were also pleased that the workshop reinforced the University’s confidence in promoting the value of data analytics, modelling and AI – coupled with immersive simulation capability, to address the complex challenges in intelligent urban mobility and city planning and design.

The Business Fellows Network (BFN)

Dr Bani AnvariLecturer in Intelligent Mobility

Dr Nikolaos VenetsaneasKnowledge Exchange Fellow

The Academic Engagement Team are pleased to announce the addition of two new fellows. Nikolaos Venetsaneas from the University of Birmingham and Dr Bani Anvari from UCL will join the Business Fellows Network to represent their respective universities to work closely with the Catapult and industry to create new opportunities. The Business Fellows Network has now grown to 14 members from 13 universities.

We have created a useful brochure to introduce our Business Fellows which is available on our website cp.catapult.org.uk

Simon is Industry Engagement Manager at the University of Kent in Canterbury.

He gained a post-graduate diploma in Sustainable Business from the University of

Cambridge, chaired the Passenger Car Working Group of the Low Carbon Vehicle

Partnership and the City of London Sustainability Forum.

His role is to further innovation related to the Industrial Strategy – so, the question of

how to increase productivity of UK plc and the four grand challenges; AI and data, future

of mobility, clean growth and healthy ageing.

Simon’s experience has largely been in supply chains across a wide number of sectors,

including grocery, forest products, recycling and automotive. Each of these sectors’

supply chains have their own characteristics and are at different stages of maturity.

Under the Future of Mobility theme of the Industrial Strategy, Simon helps the University

seek projects that bring technology and business case together. Data and information

is often the key to success here as well as having an adept and flexible system-wide

approach. Simon helps bring competitors in a supply chain together for Collaborations

which create a better sustainable outcome.

Simon Barnes

Technology

Business Case

Integration

Simon is Industry Engagement Manager at the University of Kent in Canterbury.

He gained a post-graduate diploma in Sustainable Business from the University of

Cambridge, chaired the Passenger Car Working Group of the Low Carbon Vehicle

His role is to further innovation related to the Industrial Strategy – so, the question of

how to increase productivity of UK plc and the four grand challenges; AI and data, future

Simon’s experience has largely been in supply chains across a wide number of sectors,

including grocery, forest products, recycling and automotive. Each of these sectors’

supply chains have their own characteristics and are at different stages of maturity.

Under the Future of Mobility theme of the Industrial Strategy, Simon helps the University

seek projects that bring technology and business case together. Data and information

is often the key to success here as well as having an adept and flexible system-wide

approach. Simon helps bring competitors in a supply chain together for Collaborations

Simon Barnes

Connected

Places Catapult

Fellows

Network


Cranfield University is one of 24 institutions to receive early-stage funding from UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Strength in Places Fund, to develop full-stage bids that could lead to significant economic growth in

locations across the country.

Cranfield University and SEMLEP (South East Midlands Local Enterprise Partnership) co-hosted an event for businesses to learn more about the future of supply chain logistics and how they can capitalise on the latest technological developments and innovative practices. The event took place on 5th June 2019 at Cranfield University and also included an introduction to the development of a supply chain hub of excellence being put forward in a multi-million pound proposal for funding by UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Strength in Places Funding programme. Together with industry partners and Connected Places Catapult, Cranfield University and SEMLEP are preparing a second-round bid proposal. The event at Cranfield offered companies with interests in the SEMLEP area the opportunity to get involved in the development process for the hub.

Connected Places Catapult’s Dr Andrew Traill, Principal Technologist leading the Supply Chain Innovation team, put forward some ideas as to the Research and Development that such a centre of excellence might focus on. One such example included the further refinement and real-world demonstration of a logistics (horizontal) collaborative platform being developed currently by a consortium of industry and research establishments – including the CPC, known as Freight Share Lab. This collaborative platform offers a unique business model that claims to provide all participants with greater revenue earning potential and reduced emissions but maintaining a competitive environment that drives up service quality, efficiency and reliability in the logistics sector.

Dr Traill


Plans for regional Hub of Excellence move a step closer

Providing a centre of excellence in the SEMLEP region – a strategic centre for UK logistics – would provide important and exciting opportunities for developing new innovative solutions of national and international significance. It would provide an important fillip to the economy of the region by placing it at the heart of logistics innovation and connecting to other complementary centres of R&D innovation and places for live trials.

Announced in the modern Industrial Strategy in November 2017, the Strength in Places Fund will benefit all nations and regions of the UK by enabling them to tap into the world-class research and innovation capability that is spread right across the country. The fund brings together research organisations, businesses, and local leadership on projects that will lead to significant economic impact, high-value job creation and regional growth.

The Hub at Cranfield will provide analytics to better match supply with demand by utilising the latest technologies for the last-mile-delivery such as drones, autonomous vehicles, and robots. The Hub’s services will range from predictive, prescriptive, and cognitive analytics to skills development in logistics and supply chain management from a digitalisation perspective for large companies and SMEs.

The consortium includes Cranfield University, SEMLEP (South East Midlands Local Enterprise Partnership), Network Rail, John Lewis Partnership, Connected Places Catapult and FiveAI.


The Hub at Cranfield will provide analytics to better match supply with demand by utilising the latest technologies for the last-mile-delivery such as drones, autonomous vehicles, and robots.

Chief Executive of UKRI, Professor Sir Mark Walport

Our clear vision is to ensure we benefit everyone through knowledge, talent and ideas. Significant support through the Strength in Places Fund will further catalyse economic potential across the country by bringing researchers, industry and regional leadership together to drive sustained growth through world-class research and innovation.


PraxisAuril Annual Conference

PraxisAuril supports Knowledge exchange and commercialisation (KEC) in the UK and works with key stakeholders and partners to promote best practice in the universities sector.

KEC includes activities variously known as knowledge transfer, knowledge exchange, technology transfer, knowledge exchange and commercialisation –

activities designed to help research outcomes of public sector research establishments and universities achieve impact.

The Connected Places Catapult were delighted to sponsor PraxisAuril’s annual conference with over 400 knowledge exchange professionals in attendance at the conference from across the sector.

Business Fellows Dr Richard Barratt (University of Liverpool) and Elizabeth Mullis (University of Lancaster) accompanied by Beata Szoboszlai (Connected Places Catapult) jointly presented the Business Fellows Network in the session titled New Modes of External Engagement session which hit maximum capacity on the day.

PraxisAuril 2019 From left to right: Alex Weedon, Beata Szoboszlai and Nick Woodward


Researchers in Residence

Introducing the Catapults current

Researchers in Residence

Dr Mils Hills (University of Northampton)Securing Intelligent Mobility: Towards Real Time Interventions and a Resilient Cyber Culture

Dr Zaili Yang (Liverpool John Moores University)Prioritising vehicle cleanliness for better air quality

Frens Kroger (Coventry University)Trusting technology with your life: Research and interventions to increase trust in connected and automated transport

Robert Houghton (University of Nottingham)CAV occupant sensing for reassurance and remanufacture

Wei Liu (University of Sheffield)Virtual sensing system via V2X communications

Suvodeep Mazumdar (University of Sheffield)UrbanMapper: Mapping and exploring large-scale knowledge graphs for urban planning

Eloise Marais (Leicester University)Launching urban air quality and green space monitoring into the 21st century

Mauro Vallati (University of Huddersfield)Artificial Intelligence for Maximising the Exploitation of Urban Networks via Personalised AVs Route Generation

The Academic Network to Connect Places

Academic Engagement Events

Our academic network gives individual academics, universities, businesses and other stakeholders access to a wide range of skills and knowledge.

Members of the network are added to our contact database. Their interests will be recorded on the national Academic Capability Map for Intelligent Mobility. We provide our members with details about forthcoming opportunities and events relevant to their research interests and focus areas. Having started in early 2018, ANIM currently has over 262 members from over 60 universities.

The Academic Engagement Team hosted three events in February and March earlier this year in Glasgow, Manchester and London. The events were a huge success with over 100 attendees.

The events hosted over 30 speakers from Government, universities and businesses including representatives from the Department for Transport, Transport for Greater Manchester, Bosch, Amey, Scottish Power, Arthur D Little, Worldline, University of Nottingham, University of York, Lancaster University, Manchester Metropolitan, Queens University Belfast, University of Strathclyde and University of Aberdeen.


Cities for Future Humans

On 15th May we hosted the co-designed event Cities for Future Humans – which looked at the impact of climate change on cities through neuroscience and inclusive design.

A city that cannot respond to climate changes from a human lens is destined to exacerbate human problems in an era where we are collectively trying to create solutions. Climate change has typically been expressed from the perspectives of environmental and physical elements of cities but not enough has discussed in terms of human issues such as inequality, migration, and health.

This conference approached this challenge from two perspectives. The first was the human perspective, defining who will become more vulnerable as we face these urban changes. Secondly, it looked at what new technologies and methods are available to start making cities that enable human life for now in and in the future.

Run by Centric Lab (spinout from UCL Ecological Brain), it was attended by 55 participants from across academic, policy and business. Tickets were ‘pay what you can’, and all proceeds went to Crisis, who gave a keynote around neurodiversity and homelessness.


Projects with Universities

Active Projects with Universities as Partners. Both Catapults included.

Project Partners Description

ANIMA – Aviation Noise Impact Management through Novel Approaches

ONERA, NLR, Airport Regions Con-ference, Manchester Metropolitan University, Safran Aircraft Engines, Airbus, Anotec, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, The German Aerospace Centre (DLR), ERDYN, Environnons, Heathrow Airport National, Comoti Romanian Research and Development Institute for Gas Turbines, National Aviation University Ukraine, Schiphol Airport, Lasi Airport, National Institute of Statistics Slovenia, Universita Degli Studi Roma Tre, Universite de Cergy-Pointoise, University of Southampton and ZEUS GmbH

Aviation Noise Impact Management through Novel Approaches (ANIMA) is a comprehensive research project which addresses a critical issue for Europe: Aviation noise. It is granted and supported by the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme of the European Union. The Union is eager to step forward on this issue because it is pinpointed at the crossroad of two European priorities: the capacity of the Union to ensure the highest environmental standards of well-being and living conditions for EU citizens and the EU global leadership on industries and services for mobility and air transport. In these respects, aviation noise and related annoyance are challenging the European leading positions.

Autonomous Valet Parking

Parkopedia and University of Surrey

As the automotive industry aims towards high levels of vehicle automation, one area which doesn’t attract nearly enough attention is that of parking, which we believe is one of the first steps to fully autonomous driving. Industry expectations are that drivers will be dropped off in front of their destination and that the vehicle will then automatically find, navigate to and pay for parking.

CAV2: HumanDrive

Nissan, Hitachi, Horiba Mira, SBD Automotive, Atkins, Aimsun, Highways England, University of Leeds and Cranfield University

This major connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) R&D project seeks to take autonomous technology to the next level in terms of end user experience. The most complex autonomously controlled journey yet attempted in the UK, the HumanDrive project will develop a prototype autonomous vehicle that will demonstrate a 200+ mile, end-to-end journey in a variety of settings (including country roads, A-roads, high speed roundabouts and motorways) through live traffic and different environmental conditions. This Grand Drive is scheduled for late 2019.



CAV2: MuCCA

Applus IDIADA, Cosworth, Cranfield University, Westfield and SBD Automotive

Motorway pile-ups are costly – both in financial terms and in terms of human lives. MuCCA (Multi-Car Collision Avoidance) is a £4.6m, 30-month project supported by Innovate UK, which will develop a next-generation driver aid that aims to avoid multi-car collisions on motorways. If an accident cannot be avoided, the MuCCA system will attempt to minimise its consequences (both injuries and damage).

Expand II Oesterreichische Forschungsfoerd-erungsgesellschaft MBH, Turkiye Bilimsel Ve Teknolojik Arastir-ma Kurumu, Idryma Proothisis Erevnas, Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH, Ministero Dell’istruzi-one, dell’Università ‘E Della Ricerca,Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie L’energy E Lo Sviluppo Economico Sosthenes,Institut Francais des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l’amenagement Et Des Reseaux,Ait Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation, Ministry of Education, Science of Ukraine, Iq Samhallsbyggnad Ab,Fundo para a Ciencia Regional E Tecnologia, Norges Tekn-isk-Naturvitenskapelige NTNU Universitet, Latvijas Padome Zinatnes and Bulgarian National Science Fund.

The transition to a sustainable urban future depends on a broad commitment achieved by involving a diversified set of actors in the process of co-creating public policies in the field of urban transition. The challenge identified and addressed by EXPAND II is the broadening of the existing community and capacity building in the field of urban transition, both from the perspective of research, public policies and societal priorities in general. In this respect, the project targets developing countries (widening countries), in particular with the aim of encouraging dialogues at national level, to mobilise national research and development communities, which deal with sustainable urban development.

Freight Share Lab

Heriot-Watt University, DVV Media International, Route Monkey

FreightShare Lab creates a “platform of platforms” where companies can share trucks and loads, thus potentially optimising every truck journey. FreightShare Lab brings multiple companies and freight exchanges together and optimises all of them as if they were one fleet.

GALILEO 4 Mobility

Pildo Labs Wessex, Pildo Labs, Sensefields, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), UITP, Reial Automobil Club de Catalunya (RACC) group, Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB), Clem (MOPeasy SAS), Taxiway and Creafutur.

Urban mobility is becoming an issue of great importance in today’s society due to the increasing population movements towards big cities and the exponential growth of cities in developing countries. Today, urban mobility schemes are evolving faster than ever mainly due to social, economic and technological changes. The democratisation of smart mobile devices is allowing new business models based on sharing goods and services: the sharing economy. Its fast growth during recent years reflects a shift from owning goods toward accessing them when you need them.


Hydrogen for Smarter Mobility

Department for Transport, Energy Systems Catapult, InTEGRel and University of Newcastle

This project aims to address knowledge gaps within Government and help provide clarity as to how hydrogen may best be used in a future UK energy system. Much research and knowledge already exists into the use of hydrogen, this project will demonstrate additionality by bringing together existing insights and cross-sector expertise (transport and energy systems) to evaluate the case for the use of hydrogen in transport under several future energy system scenarios.

Intelligent Gateline

Arriva, Cubic, Transport for London and University of Portsmouth

This project will develop and operationally demonstrate a gateline that is capable of automatically self-reconfiguring to maximise peak and average throughput and prevent station overcrowding. The technology will identify flows of people within the station environment, and learn to predict crowds before they arrive at the gateline. Developed in partnership with Arriva, Cubic, TfL and the University of Portsmouth, the technology will allow each gate to be configured to be inflow or outflow to deliver reliability and capacity improvements and give the passengers the best experience possible.

iScape University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, University of Surrey, Finnish Metereological Institute, IMOB / Hasselt University, Technische Universität Dortmund (TUDO), Joint Research Centre – European Commission, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, T6 Ecosystems, Nanoair Solutions, Dublin City Council, Agenzia Regionale Prevenzione e Ambiente dell’Emilia-Romagna and European Network of Living Labs.

The iSCAPE project works on integrating and advancing the control of air quality and carbon emissions in European cities in the context of climate change through the development of sustainable and passive air pollution remediation strategies, policy interventions and behavioural change initiatives.

It tackles the problem of reducing air pollution impacts, focusing on the use of “Passive Control Systems” in urban spaces, on policy intervention and behavioural changes of citizens lifestyle. Projections and real-world physical interventions will be applied on the urban tissue in the selected cities assessed for future climate change scenarios and representative of different cultural & lifestyles in Europe.

Newcastle Tech Totem

Newcastle University This project explores how digital street furniture can enable us to address multiple city and market challenges. To develop new technology and products and demonstrate the value of interven-tions in cities, they need to be deployed and tested in a real city environment. To encourage this experimentation by reducing barriers to deployment the Future Cities Catapult are developing a new physical city experimentation platform, using ”Technology Totems”. These Totems provide a distributed test-bed in cities, and through our innovation support program we can provide space for businesses to test and develop products and provide valuable data for cities. Tech Totems test models for deploying digital infrastructure in cities to engage with citizens and create an open and flexible technology platform.


Sharing Cities UK partners include:

Mayor of London, Imperial College, Transport for London, Siemens, Mastodon C, KiWi Power and Urban DNA with over 30 international partners.

The Sharing Cities ‘lighthouse’ programme is a proving ground for a better, common approach to making smart cities a reality. By fostering international collaboration between industry and cities, the project seeks to develop affordable, integrated, ommercial-scale smart city solutions with a high market potential. The project partners work in close cooperation with the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities and with other `lighthouse` consortia. Sharing Cities offers a framework for citizen engagement and collaboration at local level, thereby strengthening trust between cities and citizens. The project draws on €24 million in EU funding. It aims to trigger €500 million in investment and to engage over 100 municipalities across Europe

Sharjah Innovation Locations

American University of Sharjah In hundreds of cities around the world buildings and districts are being designated future centres of innovation. Many of these locations thrive but many also fail to fulfil their promises. Why does innovation flourish in some places but fizzle out in others.

We’ve developed a methodology to help maximise innovation location success. We can apply this methodology to your unique context and devise a plan to establish and nurture an innovation location that will go on to thrive.

VeriCAV Horiba Mira, Latent Logic, Aimsun and University of Leeds

The VeriCAV (Verification of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles) project will develop an integrated platform to allow Automated Driving Systems (ADS) to be tested in simulation. As CAV technology becomes increasingly sophisticated (and the UK more prepared for driverless cars on public roads), the industry needs to explore ways to ensure autonomous vehicles operate safely. However, safety evaluation is laborious and complex, and real-world testing can be impractical and incomplete – simulation gets around these problems and opens the doors to evaluating multi-layered and uncommon situations. The VeriCAV simulation will also mean significantly improving test efficiency when evaluating countless driving scenarios, and at the same time it can replicate the behaviour and actions of obstacles in a realistic and consistent manner.

WIN-D-ICE Renewable Advice, Alpha-Electro, Net Composites, Cambridge Nanosystems Brunel University London and Win-D-Ice Group

Ice accretion on rotor blades has a significant impact on wind turbine operation as it increases operation and maintenance costs, lowers output and decreases turbine lifetime. This problem is becoming increasingly relevant to offshore wind as a capacity of at least 15.7GW (3 times current UK production) is to be installed in European ice-prone areas by 2025. This represents a new and rapidly expanding market for ice protection systems that can counteract these effects. Existing solutions have struggled to balance ice protection effectiveness and low energy consumption. WIN-D-ICE is a hybrid ice protection solution that integrates ultrasonic anti-icing and electrothermal de-icing capabilities to optimise performance across a wide range of environmental conditions.

Case Studies

Case Study 1

Introduction to the ProjectFLOURISH is a multi-sector collaboration, helping to advance the successful implementation of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) in the UK, by developing services and capabilities that link user needs and system requirements, maximising the benefits of CAVs for users and transport authorities. The three-year project is worth £5.5 million and is co-funded between industry and the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV). It is delivered in partnership with Innovate UK. It is part of the government’s £100 million Intelligent Mobility Fund, supporting the Future of Mobility Grand Challenge.

The key outputsFLOURISH has focused on developing a greater understanding of public acceptance and user behaviour, particularly with regards to older adults and those with mobility-related conditions. It has also considered the legal and insurance implications of integrating connected and autonomous vehicles onto the road network. By adopting a user-centred approach, FLOURISH has achieved a better understanding of consumer demands and expectations, including the implications and challenges of an ageing society. FLOURISH has systematically assessed users’ responses to the introduction of CAVs, using a series of increasingly complex trials and laboratory testing. In addition to literature reviews, client engagement workshops, laboratory testing, and modelled simulations, three types of physical trials have been carried out. The simulator and pod trials focused on how users interact with CAVs and a HMI. The car trials focused on requirements for the effective transfer of data between vehicles and with the roadside infrastructure. They also explored the security of those communications. FLOURISH has made recommendations for introducing CAVs on UK roads. The implementation of

CAVs could help unlock numerous benefits to new and existing industries as well as people’s everyday life.

Partners Atkins, Airbus Central R&T, Age UK, AXA UK, Aimsun, Bristol City Council, Cardiff University, South Gloucestershire Council, Connected Places Catapult, Traverse, Designability, University of Bristol, Dunniq, University of the West of England and React AI

Supporting Partners Bristol Robotics Laboratory and Burges Salmon

Dr Wolfgang Schuster Chair and Technical Director, FLOURISH

The findings from FLOURISH have provided the foundations for the design of a user-centred CAV, ensuring the solution is fit for purpose as well as accepted and trusted by users.


Case Study 2

Introduction to the projectSynergy PRIME is a proof of concept for integrating population growth projections, agent-based modelling and interactive traffic simulation with the aim of assisting the development of future intelligent transport systems.

It has been estimated that more than two thirds of the world’s population will live in urban areas by 2050. The ongoing and future rapid urbanisation is likely to exacerbate existing problems such as air pollution, noise pollution and traffic congestion.

Synergy PRIME

Project aimsExplore the possibility of integrating population projections (Mistral), agent-based modelling (Surf) and interactive simulations (Aimsun) with existing transport design methodologies. This could ultimately strengthen the potential of Aimsun as a tool for developing and testing future projected scenarios, therefore supporting the design of future intelligent transport systems.

The projectThe Mistral/Surf integration involved generating population projections (2018 to 2041) at the Local Authority District (LAD) level and then converting them to the Output Area (OA) level, to be used as input for Surf. Upon running the Surf model using the synthetic population from Mistral, trip data was collected and converted to an XML file of traffic arrivals that is compatible with Aimsun. A digital twin of Otley and its surrounding areas was developed in Aimsun (see Figure 1), where the trips were simulated.

ApplicationThis research could assist government agencies, local authorities and consultancies, design future intelligent transport systems within the smart mobility framework. The outcomes could also be beneficial to vehicle manufacturers and service providers who need to understand the future environments within which their products and services will need to operate.

The Workshops organised by the Connected Places Catapult allowed the project team to meet with all the interested parties and to define what questions the model should be able to answer. This supported Local Transport Authorities in their priorities and needs around mobility and future systems trends.

PartnersUniversity of Leeds, The Alan Turing Institute, Connected Places Catapult

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