Putting Air Mobility and Airports at the Heart of Innovation
Our focus is on aviation climate action, integration of emerging aviation technology, passenger experience, and digitally connecting the aviation ecosystem, in order to position the UK at the forefront of future air transport and aviation sustainability.
Initiatives 2024
Decarbonisation
Climate Change is the greatest challenge of our age, and the urgency to act has never been clearer. As we confront this global threat, every sector must play its part, including aviation.
Connected Places Catapult play a key role in identifying and finding solutions to these challenges.
Initiatives 2024
Air Mobility
Aviation has a great opportunity to catalyse high quality connectivity within and between places – whether physical, digital, or social – and to be a vital enabler of productivity and economic success
Emerging aviation technology sparks innovative solutions that are cheaper, greener, and available to all.
Initiatives 2024
Digital Aviation
The introduction of integrated IoT, AI, cloud-based, data analytical digital technology will revolutionise the aviation industry making it more sustainable, passenger-friendly, safer, cost-effective, and efficient.
Initiatives 2024
Passenger Experience
How to optimise the experience of all airport users is an on-going challenge.
We explore how stakeholders across the ecosystem can collaborate to improve the airport experience for all passengers.
The art of taking flight
Commercial challenges of accelerating innovation and winning contracts were topics of conversation at an event convened by Connected Places Catapult.
Five awards for excellence have been handed out to innovators involved in the Transport Research & Innovation Grants programme.
