Public Funding for Newcastle Science Central LLP

Newcastle Upon Tyne is a Blue/Green Infrastructure (BGI) demonstration city. Blue/Green cities aim to reintroduce the natural water cycle into urban environments by encouraging interdisciplinary cooperation between city services and can achieve environmental, ecological, socio-cultural and economic benefits. This project will use Blue/Green principles to integrate the Surface Water Management Plan (SWMP), which was created in partnership between Northumbrian Water Limited (NWL), Newcastle City Council (NCC) and the Environment Agency (EA), with the NCC’s Transport Infrastructure Enhancement Plan (TEP). The key objective of this innovative approach is to increase the likelihood of the successful delivery of opportunities and benefits identified within the respective plans such as enhance the resilience of the transport infrastructure in Newcastle, reduce the risk of flooding and improve the health and well being of the people who utilise the city. This feasibility study will investigate the interventions identified in each plan within a robust and cost effective framework that considers a wider range of benefits and opportunities.

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.

The project will comprise a Feasibility Study exploring the future development of the Tyne and Wear conurbation - drawing on expertise from Newcastle, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland Councils supported by academic and business partners. The project will build on the area’s test bed philosophy and consider how integration and collaboration amongst public and private partners (such as IT, water and energy infrastructure providers) can provide further platforms for innovative companies, particularly SMEs, to test their ideas; create integrated management systems; reduce adverse impacts of manufacturing; enable healthy ageing; and reduce carbon emissions. The findings and thinking developed in the project will be freely available through public reports and the internet.

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The public description for this project has been requested but has not yet been received.

The public description for this project has been requested but has not yet been received.