This project is building an innovative Passenger Orientation Guide (POG) to help passengers navigate stations and trains. It will help reduce passenger anxiety and explain the specific bits of the station and train that relate directly to your journey. It will take the complexity out of your trip and explain it using simple but powerful immersive images. The project has been funded by Innovate UK under the SBRI, First of a Kind programme that is designed to bring new technology in to the rail sector. Based on some simple information that the customer provides about their journey and individual circumstances, POG will build a personalised visual 360 degree tour that will take you from the station entrance, to your platform, onto the train and to your own seat. It will be able to customise tours to take account of personal disabilities and simplify journey preparation. The technology can be accessed in the home (via the web), in the station (via a touchscreen kiosk) or on your smart phone (as a mobile app). The project is a collaboration between Mission Room Limited and TransPennine Express (TPE). The organisations have worked together on previous projects over the last 18 months that have focussed on using immersive technology to help develop staff skills for improving passenger service. This technology demonstrator will focus initially on routes and trains running out of Huddersfield Station, one of TPEs main stations. Mission Room is an immersive technology company that specialises in developing new technology for the rail sector. Established ten years ago, Mission Room has built a reputation for innovation and thrive on the challenge of making 360 degree technology useful. TPE are an established train and station operator and are part of the First Group that run a number of rail franchises. The franchise operates all its services to and through Manchester covering three main routes and has recently upgraded much of its rolling stock to enhance customer experiences. Once the technology has been proven on this project, it is planned to roll this out more widely across the rail network. By building a technology process as part of the solution, we will be able to quickly and cost-effectively apply it to other train and station operators. It is also planned to offer this to international rail operators to help boost export performance. For more information contact [info@missionroom.com][0] [0]: mailto:info@missionroom.com

"Construction projects are infamous for delays, omissions, overruns and often spiraling costs. In line with the Governmental Industrial Strategy Construction Sector Deal, our aim is to improve the performance of UK construction by better, more efficient and proactive rather than reactive project management. We, therefore, propose to build a scalable and repeatable 'plug-and-play' construction management and reporting platform that will be tested on three major infrastructure projects in the UK. This digital project management platform will be accessible via physical site-mounted 'AEC Production Control Rooms' that will display a suite of preconfigured performance metrics using real-time data, facilitating forward planning and collaborative decision making at team, project and portfolio level. A fourth HQ-mounted Master Control Room will enable benchmarking across different projects remotely. Clients, planners, site managers and engineers will be able to track real-time project performance and take action based on insights. These stakeholders will, for the first time, be able to objectively compare _'what was planned'_ versus _'what has been delivered'_. Such a solution will track the status of each construction element (for instance all structural steel elements) from design, approval, manufacture and delivery, all the way to site fitting/completion, and facilitate future opportunities for operational cost savings via Digital Twin capabilities at the national level. A feedback loop will enable predictive analytics such as early risk warnings, benchmarking across different portfolio projects and continuous 4D planning. All information will be set out clearly in both physical and digital space so that the parties involved can either collaborate remotely, or in person within the AEC Production Control Room on site. Some of the barriers to adoption so far include lack of consistent digital and data architecture; contract models to support open and transparent data exchange; and capability at every level of the supply chain, from client (portfolio) to workforce (package) level. Together, our highly innovative and award-winning project team will demonstrate a path forward to overcome each of these barriers, offering a new way of working for the construction industry in an open and collaborative way. Being able to demonstrate the AEC Production Control Room on three major construction projects will enable us to share the benefits, outcomes, and designs with the industry in order to encourage widespread adoption and support an unprecedented quantum leap to a high-performing construction industry."