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The Connected Places Catapult is proud to be supporting the Department for Transport’s (DfT) Transport-Technology Research and Innovation Grants (T-TRIG) programme.
T-TRIG bridges the early stage, proof-of-concept funding gap in transport innovation, where small investments can de-risk emerging solutions.
We are witnessing unprecedented advancements in science and technology, and the business models that will underpin resultant transport services, both of which will profoundly change our transport systems. The Future of Mobility Grand Challenge aims to make the UK a world leader in the way people, goods and services move now and in the future, with the potential to achieve a safer, cleaner and more user-centred transport system. T-TRIG enables government and industry innovators to learn together, making future investments in transport technology more cost effective.
In the last five years, Department for Transport has provided £4.6m of grants to support over 140 projects, from across the breadth of the transport technology spectrum. The programme has delivered great successes, including including an electric HGV range extender, a station navigation app for the visually impaired, drone navigation collision avoidance technology and electric cargo delivery bikes. To date, more than £25m of follow-on investment has been secured by organisations after delivering successful T-TRIG projects – a return of £5 for every £1 invested by government.
T-TRIG is designed to help innovators try out new transport technology ideas and support the best ones to reach the market. To see how T-TRIG helped kick-start the journey of Vivacity Labs, please see founder and COO Peter Mildon’s blog on the Industrial Strategy.
Key features of T-TRIG:
We aim have make at least one T-TRIG call each financial year, with the next call expected in Autumn 2019.
Ways of finding outmore about T-TRIG: