"Governments around the world spend vast sums providing public housing, but often fail to allocate it efficiently. Our academic research shows that game theory and market design can be used to provide better matches between people and homes, with significant improvements in social welfare. A more efficient housing allocation system could generate many millions of pounds worth of value. We aim to develop a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution to the problem of inefficient public housing allocation that can help councils in the UK as well as housing providers abroad. This SaaS will allocate homes using the latest findings from market design. Our solution will be based on original research conducted by members of our team. We have designed new matching algorithms that are both implementable and far more efficient than the allocation systems currently in place."

The proposed development of CATCH! is designed to provide a state-of-the-art highly-scalable system to crowdsource, analyse and act upon travel-behaviour data in real time. It will provide transport professionals with granular data and analyses on how people travel, and a 'living journey planner' that automatically records travel behaviour and gives citizens frustration-free routing based on live travel conditions. We believe in personalised solutions, with a customer centric view of transport where Catch! proactively suggests the best possible route for you. Personalised because the most convenient route may not necessarily be the fastest or most cost effective. It's about understanding the human behind the routing request. What are your preferences, routines, what's the weather like or can you tick off a chore while on the school run. In a time of austerity CATCH! will give significant value uplift to transport planners by providing a more complete and cost effective method to survey and analyse traffic flows. Be they by private or public carriages, on foot, bike or vehicle. We'll turn the world into a giant lab for delivering safer, cleaner transport choices.

CAPTAIN is designed to create the first information technology product in the aviation industry that will achieve substantial fuel savings, CO2 reductions, and cost savings for airlines. It will improve fuel efficiency in aviation by directly influencing airline captains’ decisions--a radically new way of promoting sustainability. In his latest research, project-lead SME Avalon Behaviour Ventures’ co-founder Dr. Robert Metcalfe showed that personalised feedback to airline captains increased fuel efficiency by 10-20%, saving the airline being studied £5.5m and reducing approximately 1.2million kg of CO2 emissions. This grant will fund the technological scaling of this research into a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) through the acquisition of new knowledge and skills. This research and development project specifically aims to provide proof of technical feasibility through the development and testing of a basic prototype that will: (i) integrate and analyse revealed fuel-use data; (ii) deliver personalised and actionable behavioural solutions to captains; (iii) build in scientifically robust experimentation methodology.

Our excessive dependence on motorised road transport imposes significant economic costs on society, such as congestion, pollution and physical inactivity and the ill health caused by it. UPBEAT is an app designed to combine personalised travel sensing, open city transport datasets and behavioural science to deliver user-centred feedback to commuters to help remove the friction of travel choice and to understand how commuters can access better modes of travel. Our key objectives are to: - 1. Help users to change travel choices from socially inefficient modes of travel (i.e. single use car journeys) to more socially acceptable methods. Such changes will in turn lead to improvements in air quality, health, personal finance, well-being, pollution and demands upon traffic services such as roads and parking 2. Understand the power of nudges and incentives in changing travel behaviour. 3. Construct a commercially viable and replicable product that removes the friction costs for travel options, which can be transferable to virtually any organisation.