The Transport Systems Catapult (TSC)Andrew Traill, Principal Consultant – Freight and Logistics
British Parking Forum: 7th August 2015
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What is the Transport Systems Catapult?
Established by Innovate UK
• Catapults were the brainchild of Vince Cable , former Secretary of State, BIS
• Launched June 2014
‒An elite technology and innovation centre
– to promote Intelligent Mobility (IM)
– help UK businesses create products and services that meet the needs of the world's transport systems
– increase jobs in the UK in the Intelligent Mobility (IM) market place
Huge Growth Potential for Intelligent Mobility
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Customer experience - £500bn
Autonomous systems - £81bn
Environment & resilience - £94bn
Modelling & visualisation - £15bn
Information Exploitation- £98bn
TSC Target 10% of…
UK approach to Innovation
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Precision Medicine
Bridging the gap - developing a translational infrastructure
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Invest in research excellence
Target areas of UK industrial potential
Develop a translational infrastructure
Intelligent Mobility:
….the efficient and cost-effective
movement of goods and people
Imagine a user-sensitive, multimodal, reliable, self healing, value for money, wholly transparent, mobility service, where time in transit is useful, valuable, informative and enjoyable …..
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Business Units
• Automated Transport Systems
• Customer Experience
• Modelling & Visualisation
• Information Exploitation
Automated Transport Systems
What we do
Broad Experience of ATS Team Members
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Industries:
• Automotive, Aerospace, Marine, Mining / Forestry, Defence, Transport service
• Transport planning, Traffic modelling, Vehicle testing, Wireless telecoms
• University, Research organisation, OEM, supplier, consultancy.
Activities:
• Market analysis, Technology roadmaps, Feasibility studies, Business development, IP management & commercialisation
• Technology transfer, Brokering between universities and industry across domains, Collaborative projects
• Research, development & engineering – From research to production
‒ Modelling & simulation
‒ Transport and traffic planning.
Broad Experience of ATS Team Members
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Heathrow Ultra PRT SARTRE car & truck platooning
Lagos Bus Rapid TransitTransportation service planning
ASTRAEA - UAV certificationin civil airspace
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Automated Technology Roadmap – Road vehicle Deployment
Level 1Driver AssistanceSystem control of speedor steering.
2010 2015 2020 2025 2030
Fully Automated ParkingWith / without person in driver’s seat (remote park)
Low-speed urban automated vehiclesE.g. LUTZ, Google pod, Development of CityMobil2
Highway platooningAutomated, cooperative driving in platoons
Highway AutopilotAutomated driving on motorway / specific routes
TJA (Traffic Jam Assist)Speed & steering control on motorway, low speed, including driver monitoring
LKA (Lane Keeping Assist)Steering control, following lane markings
Automated Technology Roadmap – Passenger Road Vehicle Deployment
2010 2015 2020 2025 2030
Full automation
Level 2Partial AutomationSystem control of speedand steering.Continuous human monitoring.
Level 3Conditional AutomationNo continuous human monitoring. Human Intervention when requested.
Level 4 - High AutomationNo human Intervention required.
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ACC (Adaptive Cruise Control): Speed control, adapted to traffic speedAEB (Autonomous Emergency Braking): Braking for collision mitigation, low speed
Parking AssistSteering and/or accelerator control, parallel & perpendicular parking
V2X (Vehicle-Vehicle, Vehicle-Infrastructure) based applicationsConnected braking, blind spot warning, green wave
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What still needs to be done …
Customer Experience
What we do
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Customer Experience
Customer/ Mobility ExperienceA centre of excellence that helps UK industry deliver the value of Intelligent Mobility through a focus on human ‘mobility experiences’. Achieving this requires a departure from ‘business-as-usual’ mindsets – to develop progressive perspectives on the net value of experiences in mobility systems as a whole.
Experience and Service DesignIn order to unlock the full potential of mobility systems, and make them truly ‘intelligent’, UK industry will have to adopt a Human-Centred Design approach and use Human Factors, Systems Integration and Design Thinking.
Business Strategy and DesignHelping UK industry define where to play and how to win by using emerging technologies to enable new business models that unlock the value of intelligent mobility.
Systems InnovationBuilding alliances and collaborating with partners to innovate whole systems at scale and speed.
Modelling & Visualisation
What we do
Modelling and Visualisation
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The modelling, simulation and visualisation programme is developing platforms with the tools
to demonstrate the value of intelligent mobility within the context of integrated
transport and its wider environment. It will:
• have the capability to create, connect and analyse innovative solutions before
deployment using state of the art modelling, simulation and visualisation;
• provide new insights in a collaborative environment;
• enable the development and valuation of new products and services;
• help to optimise solutions, shape thinking and support policy and operational
decisions for a wide range of transport related issues.
Provide these capabilities externally and internally to deliver key project and programme
objectives.
Modelling challenges and opportunities
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CHALLENGES
Limitations of legacy modelling approaches and data availability
Multi-modal (and multi-model) integration required to;
• Examine end-to-end Journeys
• Work with data scientists/systems engineers (Information Exploitation Business unit) to enable re-usability of data and modelling investments
Engagement of multiple stakeholders with different interests/requirements
Examining (and valuing) the effects of interventions / innovations
OPPORTUNITIES
Big data… Open data…
Agent-based and activity-based models with synthetic populations
Visualisation and compute capabilities of Defence and Gaming sectors
Developments in BIM and GIS
Internet-of-Things and machine-to-machine sensing and actuation
Personalised information and quantified self
Etc.
Phase I demonstrators
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Visualisation
To demonstrate the value of intelligent mobility for integrated transport and its wider environment; Providing capability
to collaboratively create, connect and analyse innovative solutions, supporting policy and operational decisions using
modelling, simulation and visualisation.
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2017
2019
2021
Command & Control synthetic environment
Data Clearing Centre
Visualisation suite
Virtual Reality demonstrators
Public consultation tools
Modelling Intelligent Mobility
Serious Games
Synthetic populations
Capability groups
M&V Translational Infrastructure - Capability Roadmap
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2018
2020
Integration
Data and design
Modelling
Citizen-led analysis
Transport Modelling Reference Architecture
Modelling Resilience
Modelling for Operations
Intelligent Mobility Platform – Urban Labs / Testbeds for demonstration and experimentation
Modelling Autonomous Vehicles and Infrastructure Systems
Data-driven models and Internet of Things
Modelling Externalities – Air Quality and Safety
V1.0 15/01/2015
Information Exploitation
Why is this important?
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Transport market size and data value
Smart infrastructure - £64bn
Open data - £19bn
Global transport IX market size
Data integration & mgt - £7bn
Customer experience - £500bn
Data analytics - £8bn
Autonomous systems - £81bn
Environment & resilience - £94bn
Modelling & visualisation - £15bn
Intelligent Mobility Market
£900bn£98bn
Enabling:
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Information Exploitation: Driving towards IM
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2015 20252018 2022Near-term Mid-term Long-term
Using historic public transport data to inform services planning and demand across transport networks
Consolidation of logistics operations across modes, providers and networks
Demand responsive bus services
Demand responsive pricing across all transport services and networks (including roads)
Transport provided as a consumer service, not a journey service in its own right
National real-time capacity indicators for all modes of public transport and roads with historic data for predictive analytics
Contactless/mobile ticketing for all UK transport services and operations
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Personalised, context-specific, multi-modal journey planning with real-time guidance and updates
National real-time parking space information service integrated with route guidance and payments
Establish Transport Data Sandpit (internal)
Publicize and maintain a ‘catalogue of catalogues’ for open data in transport
Deliver Departure Information Planning for selected UK airports
The flow of information shared across airports increased - runway efficiency, queuing management, and airspace structure and route network improved.
Work with public sector and industry to open up, maintain and exploit transport datasets
Open Transport Data Lab
Work with government, industry and academia to influence adoption of open data standards and governance across different modes
Work with government, industry and academia to tackle cyber security and privacy issues
Transport Data Store
Driverless vehicles using dedicated routes or tracks in urban areas
New airborne freight transportation (e.g. airships/drones)
Autonomous vehicles running on-street alongside non-autonomous ones
Future which IX can contribute to
Project/initiatives currently in delivery or
being developed
Future which other BUs can contribute to
Work with public sector and industry to explore new data-driven business models
Ubiquitous wireless sensors enable real-time decision making for smart infrastructure (e.g. highway)
Project/initiatives to be scoped / commenced
Projects across freight, passenger journey intelligence, smart ticketing for cities, e-barriers etc
Co-ordination of ship arrivals with hinterland logistics
Port resilience analysis and modelling
Focus Areas
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Aviation Sector
Integrated Logistics and Supply Chain
Advanced Passenger Information
Asset Management and Resilience
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Collaboration example
Improve the traveller
experience
Minimise the impact of disruption
Provide personalised information
Improve the performance
of the network
Provide tools to integrate the quality of life
Provide seamless
freight
• Multi-modal door-to-door journey planning platform that uses live movement data, weather, passenger sentiment and events to predict delays and comfort of any journey
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Autonomous vehicles
• Demonstrator – Low-Carbon Urban Transport Zone (LUTZ):
• Demonstrating on a large scale the potential of autonomous vehicles, cloud-enabled mobility and transport on-demand services
‒ £50 million programme
‒ Milton Keynes as the test-bed
‒ TSC £5 m + EU £5 m: to deliver key projects within the programme and help develop and implement standards and protocols for autonomous vehicles.
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Departure Planning Information (DPI)
• Real-time flight departure technology at airports across the UK
• In cooperation with the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and the National Air Traffic Services (NATS), integrated with the European flight information network EuroControl
• TSC contribution: £750,000 for building the project team
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The Manchester table
• A touch-screen controlled simulator
• an interactive display based upon the transport systemof central Manchester
• Using historical data from 2010, as well as projected figures for the years 2020 and 2030
• the table allows users to increase the level of interconnectedness between the different modes of transport, as well as introducing individual "interventions" (such as road closures, bad weather or the introduction of Park and Ride schemes)
• The concept will be developed for other modelling and visualization initiatives within projects
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Sentiment mapping
• Examining how social media and crowd-based sentiment mapping applications can be used to the mutual benefit of transport providers and transport users.
• Monitoring the moods of public transport passengers in real time
• Identifying blackspots before incidents happen
• Exploring the financial and social rewards that can be unlocked by embracing these popular new technologies.
A demonstration version of the project can already be seen in the form of a giant live data projection currently on display in our Imovation Centre, with a series of "real world" pilot schemes
Post-lunch workshop
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The challenge…
How do we encourage innovation and
investment in new and existing technology
to improve the delivery and management of
parking services?
Thank You