From automating EV charging to designing lightweight components, 19 firms with ideas to make transport greener have been selected to join the latest cohort on the Clean Futures accelerator.
Near-misses, collisions, unsafe driving and roadworks – just some of the hazards that National Highways has to manage on motorways and major A roads across the country.
Funding of up to £150,000 per project is on offer to help small and medium sized companies and their trial partners to test new technologies that promise to enhance transport services and better connect rural communities.
Companies delivering greener transport technologies will take part in trials and receive funding and business support as part of the Clean Futures accelerator programme.
A trio of winning ideas are to be trialled with National Highways which will use the latest technology to help ease the pain of roadworks for drivers, businesses and local communities.
Funding of up to £90,000 is available to small and medium sized companies with technologies that could improve safety on National Highways’ roads, by better managing hazards.
A new government and industry collaboration to amplify innovations, break down silos and build a shared vision for cyber-physical system innovation in the UK.
Partners involved in the CERTUS and evolvAD programmes are among 13 recipients of funding from the Government’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles.
Technology that enables open sea refuelling using hydrogen generation from buoys, a personal sign language avatar that provides wayfinding information in train stations, and a climate change resilient permeable pavement solution are among 67 projects to receive a share of nearly two million pounds.