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Ensuring safe electric charging and hydrogen refuelling could represent barriers to the transition of road freight towards net zero. Essential competencies are needed to develop best practices.

Arun Ulahannan of Coventry University is leading a project to improve the design of streets to accommodate future mobility, with support from Connected Places Catapult.

Sector specialists and small firms come together to demonstrate their latest technologies.

Deaf travellers are helping to shape trials of new accessibility technology at Glasgow Airport, in partnership with Connected Places Catapult.

Maths whizz Chris Arthurs created computer simulations showing how human hearts respond to drug treatments, before applying his knowledge of algorithms to build a city navigation smartphone app. Now he is working with Connected Places Catapult to develop a digital twin to help shape highways of the future.

Blind and partially sighted pedestrians could soon be guided to their destination safely by a device sitting in the palm of a user’s hand, after a start-up firm supported by Connected Places Catapult received major investment to help take the product to market.

The conclusion of year one of the Clean Futures Accelerator programme – and launch of applications for a second cohort – was marked with two showcase events in Dudley and Coventry.

Katherine Sugar champions efforts to spend more on energy infrastructure projects that promise a fairer transition to net zero in cities.