IMPARTIntelligent Mobility PARTnership
Pete Thomas
Professor of Road and Vehicle Safety
Loughborough University
University Partnerships Programme
• Focussed on 6 partnerships• IMPART – Loughborough,
De Montfort, Coventry, Nottingham Trent
• Objectives– Raise awareness of
Intelligent Mobility as a research field
– Enable academics to identify how their research relates
– Develop new academia-business collaborations
• Aberdeen/Herriot-Watt
• Sheffield• Nottingham/Leicester• Southampton• Cambridge
• Cranfield• Leeds
IMPARTIntelligent Mobility Partnership – Midlands Centre of Excellence
What will IMPART do?What’s in it for me?
• Knowledge transfer events– Kick-off event– H2020 workshop– Electric vehicle day
• University-business engagement• Staff and student visits to Catapult (1+days)• Consortium building facilitation
– H2020– Innovate UK– other
• What do you want?
Upcoming events
Loughborough IMPART LaunchFriday 3 July2015
Introduction to mobility and safety research at Loughborough
• Intelligent Transport • Big Data and mobility • Road User Behaviour • Conspicuity• Crash investigation• Autonomous Vehicles• Autonomous robots• Consumer Value
Flyers in your pack
Universities and contacts
Pete [email protected]
Clare [email protected]
Evtim [email protected]
Paul Fairburn [email protected]