Public Funding for Swarco UK & Ireland Ltd

The CAPRI project will design & deliver a complete, market ready, mobility service deployable in urban scenarios using trusted secure PODs and systems supported with a 'complete package' of viable business cases, legal, regulatory, insurance recommendations to enable quick and easy deployments. A series of trial deployments demonstrate increasingly complex POD-based mobility services. Whilst addresing all CCAVs priority areas, including cyber security of vehicle and data validated real-time controld systems, our focus is on innovative business models based around POD mobility services.

UK Government AQ strategy states that there are over 50,000 premature deaths yearly due to AQ pollution. Emissions from transport are a key contributor to poor AQ. Vehicles which have an internal combustion engine and an electric only range can offer zero emission (ZE) operation but cities lack the ability to monitor and control the vehicles. Project ACCRA - a collaboration between Dynniq, Tevva, EarthSense, Transport Systems Catapult, Cenex and Leeds City Council - will address this problem by developing a system capable of allowing remote control of a vehicles energy management system to ensure ZE operation where it has maximum benefit to AQ. The operation will be demonstrated in a proposed Clean Air Zone in Leeds. Under the overall management of the Transport Systems Catapult, the consortium will develop a hybrid vehicle interface (Tevva), a decision-making engine (Dinniq) capable of taking inputs from a range of city data, such as live air quality information (EarthSense) potentially triggering on-demand ZE running instructions (known as active geofencing). The application, markets, business models and scalability of the system will be evaluated by Cenex and the Transport Systems Catapult to inform Leeds and other CAZ cities of the its potential use.

Connected and autonomous vehicles will play a significant role in a future transport system and unlock enormous social benefits at the same time. FLOURISH looks to enable the delivery of many of these benefits by helping to ensure that connected and autonomous vehicle are developed with the user in mind and are technically secure, trustworthy and private. Using older people and others with assisted living needs as an exemplar to develop an understanding of the diverse needs of a particular user group, FLOURISH will develop innovative products, processes and services that are directly transferrable to the wider community. FLOURISH will expand existing physical and virtual vehicle test capability and help deliver up to 10,000 jobs through the establishment of the Bristol City-Region as a world class independent test facility for connected and autonomous vehicles.

Engaged Smart Transport (EST) will create and demonstrate a transferable end-to-end congestion management service which: combines a range of interventions (from real-time Intelligent Transport Systems to long-term behavioural change strategies); acts preventively in anticipation of congestion; uses existing infrastructure; and is responsive to local environmental and behavioural specifics. The project will develop a service and supporting toolkit that draws on a unique combination of big data analytics, multiple data sources from a sensor-rich environment, and ongoing collaboration between citizens, local authorities, leading researchers and technology providers. EST’s service-based approach to congestion management represents a fundamental departure from traditional ways of thinking about mobility management in a city and the disjointed approach to the data capture, analysis, strategy and intervention that is currently prevalent.

Given the aging demographics and rapid urbanisation, cities need to be equipped to respond to emergency 999 calls more quickly. By 2050, over 25% of the UK’s population will be over 65. This has implications on the overall health services as well as the NHS Trust to cope with anticipated rise in ambulance call outs amidst worsening urban congestion. Presently, the Government has set out targets for ambulance services to reach 75% of emergency calls within 8 minutes. “LIfe First Emergency Traffic Control” or “LIFE” seeks to develop an innovative application for an intelligent transport system that operates in real-time to enable ambulances to reach life threatening emergency cases quicker by integrating ambulance route finder applications with traffic management systems. LIFE seeks to reduce the time to respond to emergency calls, thereby saving lives, whilst operating a resilient service with a cost and fuel efficient fleet. On a larger scale, LIFE will benefit the UK as it will design, develop, pilot and refine a new application that can be easily integrated with existing systems in emergency vehicles and will enable emergency services to enhance what they do best, which is saving lives.

This proposal will unlock the already existing real time travel information in cities and make it available to travellers, business users and small freight delivery operators in a form that is specific to their needs. This solution will provide employees and visitors with a scalable on-demand mobility solution to reach businesses within a city; enabling or increasing the efficient mobility of people and goods. It will provide real time information on destination car parking availability, linked to a prediction of future occupancy based on historical data, as well as providing information on alternative travel modes and commercial pick-up/delivery options. CO2 emissions will be reduced by providing greater reliability of direct travel to choice parking, with alerts to forewarn users of dynamic changes on the network and provide alternative options.