Several innovators to have developed passenger assistance systems with the support of Connected Places Catapult have gone on to secure further trials or commercial success; among them Hello Lamp Post and Jnction.
Ian Heptinstall is drawing on over 30 years’ experience gained as a project manager and consultant to champion the benefits of innovative procurement and critical analysis in construction, as a Researcher in Residence with Connected Places Catapult.
Hundreds of promising start-up companies and university teams have received funding through the Transport Research and Innovation Grants programme in recent years. In the fourth of a series of profiles about grant recipients finding success, we speak to Jason Durk, principal consultant of rail software firm 3Squared.
Efforts by a senior lecturer at the University of Surrey to analyse complex data generated by a measurement train could help to improve structural engineers’ understanding of when bridges need attention.
Hundreds of promising start-up companies and university teams have received funding through the Transport Research and Innovation Grants (TRIG) programme in recent years. In the first of a series of profiles about grant recipients finding success, we speak to Hamish Geddes – one of the founders of software developer Lenz Labs.
Funding and business support are not the only perks for small enterprises joining our programmes; networking opportunities allow companies with similar ambitions to come together and share ideas. We speak to two new pairings developing business propositions after meeting over coffee at events organised by Connected Places Catapult.
Nine firms hoping to demonstrate their novel products or systems inside Bristol’s mainline station later this spring alighted in the city to showcase their grand ideas, before three are chosen for installation.
Past thinking collided with future ideas at Bristol’s iconic station in January inside the very room where Britain’s most celebrated rail engineer masterminded the introduction of his mainline route towards London.
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