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Iain Stewart, the Member of Parliament for Milton Keynes South, visited our offices on Friday 31 January for an update on progress since our move to Milton Keynes last November. Chief Executive, Steve Yianni presented the Catapult’s ambitious plans for a world-class innovation centre based in the Pinnacle Building at the heart of Milton Keynes, due for completion by the end of May.
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‘To raise the profile of the Transport Systems Catapult we now have a Blog, that will highlight and weave together the many strands of our activities, outside the more formal structure of, this, our News section.’
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Blog
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When new technological developments have caused major market disruptions, it’s often the effect of combining several technologies that makes an innovation seem revolutionary rather than any single breakthrough innovation…
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After just a few weeks, and about 400 miles, of driving my new BMW i3 I’ve found the stated range heavily depends on driving behaviour, which in my case has skewed towards conserving energy. On longer journeys, I generally get more range than that stated…
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You might reasonably think, with today’s always on communication technologies, that within the time-critical operating environment of the modern airport, someone must know, precisely, when an incoming passenger aircraft will have taken off, and when it will arrive…
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Everyone at some time must have been secretly tempted to pull the emergency cord on a train, just to see what will happen…
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Transport Systems Catapult is keen to improve its understanding of the processes used by UK local authorities for making initial assessments of the impact of implementing new transport concepts – especially those that are innovative and take a radical approach to solving long-term or difficult transport challenges.
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I’m rather excited about a new arrival expected in our household next month.
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As one of the themes was transport disruption, the second of our two workshops to generate ideas for using sentiment mapping in the transport sector, was, with somewhat ironic coincidence, convened amidst strike action affecting London Underground services.
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Alex Burrows, Transport Systems Catapult’s Head of Innovation Challenges, will be kicking off – as first speaker – at a launch event this Thursday showcasing Smart Transport Innovation in Leicester and wider Leicestershire.
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Iain Stewart MP will be visiting Transport Systems Catapult at The Pinnacle tomorrow afternoon (Friday 31 January) to see more of what we are up to and have a look around our new offices.
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The Chargemaster electric car charging point across from us on Midsummer Boulevard may be awaiting its commissioning but it’s all systems go here at Transport Systems Catapult (TSC) in Milton Keynes.
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Transport technology news
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19 December 2014 - The Department for Transport (DfT), supported by Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN), is piloting a competition that will grant fund novel research of innovative solutions to its key challenges, named the Transport-Technology Research Innovations Grant (T-TRIG). Applications will be accepted from today, with a deadline of midnight on 26 January 2015.
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On Monday Louise Mothersole - the UK National contact point for Horizon2020 - presented a webinar for KTN on The SME Instrument. In her 36 minute presentation, Louise laid out the steps...
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The Knowledge Transfer Network and the e-Infrastructure SIG are supporting a ‘mini-competition’ to support up to five SMEs companies for participation in the 2015 European Study Group in...
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As part of a series of internal workshops Ben Peace , Sustainability Lead at KTN, today demonstrated InnovateUK’s Horizons tool , a website and deck of cards designed to help companies think...
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With just a week left to apply, and to aid the application process, the Department for Transport (DfT) has collated a summary of follow-up queries arising from two webinars hosted by DfT and KTN (on 3 and 6 November), summarising the questions received as a ‘FAQ’.
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To stimulate the market for new solutions using data to address the challenges facing cities, InnovateUK is shortly to launch a competition offering £7.5m for collaborative R&D projects...
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22 October 2014 - The Department for Transport (DfT) from today is inviting entries to a competition seeking concepts to help mitigate NOx emissions from road traffic, offering a total of about £300,000 to fully-fund projects designed to address air quality on the strategic road network.
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The Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) working in partnership with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Innovate UK is to invest up to £25m in...
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The Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) are supporting this year’s Innovate UK 2014 , which is hosted by Innovate UK and UKTI on 5 & 6 November 2014 at the Old Billingsgate in London. ...
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The 2015 call for proposals for the Horizon 2020 Smart, Green and Integrated Transport programme has been published, including an indicative budget of €214 million, with the next...
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The Autonomous Systems Underpinning Research (ASUR) programme, a defence research programme managed on behalf of Dstl by BAE Systems , has today announced a detailed request for...
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The Enterprise Europe Network will be attending the forthcoming Farnborough International Air Show - exhibiting on Stand 1/B19 for the duration of the event, from 14 July 2014 to 18...
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As included in Technology Strategy Board’s 2014-2015 Delivery Plan, a Transport Systems Innovation Platform is to be launched in the current financial year. This body is intended to ‘...
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As part of a study assessing the need for a 'National Large Structures Composites Centre' facility in the Solent region, The National Composites Centre (NCC) is seeking views on the viability...
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Intelligent Mobility
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Innovate UK is shortly to open a £700K competition to support development of products and services that exploit “integrated systems” to deliver new solutions to improve the performance of...
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The International Transport Forum has issued a call for entries for its 2015 ITF Transport Awards , with a deadline for entries of Friday, 30 January 2015 - to be presented in three...
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TomTom , the Dutch company best known for its navigation and mapping products and also recently started selling smart wearables, yesterday announced that TomTom claimed it will offer...
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The government yesterday (28 October 2014) published its plans for oversight of a reformed Highway’s Agency , confirming not only that the model of rail regulation and consumer representation...
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Four projects have been selected to each receive just under a million pounds, 100% funded, contract to test their solution in a real city environment.
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In a speech yesterday at the PACTS Driverless Vehicles Conference at Thatcham, Claire Perry MP (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport and Member of...
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The aim of the competition was to support projects that take advantage of the increasing accuracy, coverage and speed of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) such as GPS and other non-satellite technologies such as iBeacon, Wi-Fi and radio frequency identification (RFID) to build innovative location-based services or improve the user experience of existing services.
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The competition closed on 11 June 2014, and the results pdf - output on 14 September 2014 - include projects for improved rail track worker safety, freight transport logistics, plus a InnovateUK funding award for the Satellite Applications Catapult.
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Despite the title, the view of the academics at the Internet of Cars symposium organised by Sixth Sense Transport transport, was that vehicles have never functioned as network in themselves, rather - in the absence of useful connectivity of cars so far - using mobile technology, people have taken upon themselves to become connected.
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Soon however, with technologies such as eCall, cars will become connected and emit more and more data. As Chris Speed of Edinburgh University observed, “as cars get networked, drivers will need to be sensitive to the data they send out”.
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Sixth Sense has also produced a number of apps, including Internet of Cars By Chris Barker that set out to “redefine what your car number plate means”.
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ETSI , the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, together with ERTICO , the network of Intelligent Transport Systems and Services bodies in Europe, is to hold the third eCall...
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Loughborough University and De Montfort University Leicester last week announced involvement in a £600,000 contract awarded by Transport System Catapult (TSC) to deliver a programme of...
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Dr. Alexander Hars, of German software company Inventivio GmbH, has reported in his blog Driverless car market watch that on the a webinar update on 4 September given by the CityMobil2 project at the end of two month trial of a driverless bus service, hat reported ‘mixed results’ in a real life road tests.
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Due to an unusually fast-tracked schedule and significant media interest in the Technology Strategy Board’s Driverless cars competition, held in London on Wednesday 30 July, caused the unusual circumstance of the ministerial press announcement, registration opening and briefing and networking events all to occur on the same day.
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Due to an unusually fast-tracked schedule and significant media interest in the Technology Strategy Board’s Driverless cars competition, held in London on Wednesday 30 July, caused the unusual circumstance of the ministerial press announcement, registration opening and briefing and networking events all to occur on the same day.
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While Google works on a prototype driverless car with no user operable pedals or brakes , companies that currently sell cars will be less keen to present such complete ceding of control to...
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In a speech this month to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn's outlined his company's roadmap towards what he calls Autonomous Drive vehicles, which Nissan aims...
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Transport System Catapult hosted a two week series of debates and events last month, titled the Imagine Festival, to mark the opening of its Imovation Centre, an innovation and exhibition...
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On 18 June 2014, the House of Commons Transport Committee launched an inquiry on motoring of the future. The inquiry will examine how the UK Government can address developments...
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The European Commission has announced on 17 June nineteen actions which will receive funding under the Sustainable Urban Mobility campaign ‘ Do the Right Mix ’. The selected actions will each...
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A survey sponsored by Siemens of over 2,000 traffic management professionals in Regional and National Capitals (RNCs) in Europe - Traffic Management Transformed - claims less than half...
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Manchester Business Park-based Indestinate was one of five data start-ups selected to receive up to £25,000 Technology Strategy Board funding last Wednesday as winner of a Digital Innovation...
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Published during this week’s European ITS Congress in Helsinki, the EU Commission this week released a study on multimodal journey planners in Europe that reports that the information the apps...
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TNT has publicised details of an overnight trial of the rail network for deliveries into Euston Station, that it says is the first time rail has been used a business-to-business freight...
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Traffic congestion in cities across the UK has become “far worse” over the past year, according to research by TomTom. The latest TomTom Traffic Index for the UK shows average vehicle...
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The Technology Strategy Board last month announced the results of its Enabling the internet of sensors – Feasibility study competition , including two transport related projects among the...
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To stimulate the market for innovative solutions to common challenges faced by cities, the Technology Strategy Board is investing up to £5m in the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI)...
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Rail Delivery Group, that represents the owners of Britain's passenger train operating companies, freight operators and Network Rail, has this week announced that it is to make its...
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Academics from the University of Leicester have received European Commission funding to build and demonstrate an app for HGV drivers to provide routing directions in urban areas to minimise...
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ITO World , an Ipswich-based transport data company supported in its early days with funding from The Intelligent Transport Systems and Services Innovation Platform (a programme...
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In a joint announcement dated 12 May 2014, Coventry-based RDM Automotive was named by Transport Systems Catapult as the company chosen to manufacture vehicles for the LUTZ Pathfinder , a...
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With plans ahead to triple the spending on road building in the next parliament - proposing £24 billion of road investments over the next six years and £50 billion for the strategic road...
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New guidance published by the government to help freight operators to manage out-of-hours deliveries, and so help reduce day time congestion, was announced by Transport Minister Stephen Hammond...
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Bit by bit, bus passengers up and down the country will be gaining an increasing sense of empowerment - through provision of better information at bus stops. South East Scotland Transport...
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The Technology Strategy Board is to invest up to £5m in projects that stimulate innovation in the UK location-based services sector . The Innovation in location-based services...
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The Department for Transport has today issued a call for evidence for a research project that it has commissioned to better understand the impact of transport infrastructure on economic...
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The government is tripling funding on the road network over the next 8 years with more than £24 billion to be spent on upgrading and improving the network until 2021.
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An All-Party Parliamentary Group on Integrated Transport Strategy was launched last year - with the intent "To provide a long-term, integrated and intermodal approach to transport policy in...
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Volkswagen last week announced the start of a collaborative European research project AdaptIVe (Automated Driving Applications & Technologies for Intelligent Vehicles) at the...
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easyCar , part of The easyGroup private investment vehicle of Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, yesterday announced the nationwide launch of easyCar Club , a peer-to-peer - or 'social' - car hire...
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With a background of more than a half of the world’s population now living in urban areas, and forecast to rise to 60% by 2030, management consulting firm Arthur D. Little , in...
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Engineering company Alstom has taken advantage of the nearby Manchester Ship Canal to transport the first steam turbine for the Carrington power station , in Greater Manchester. The GT26...
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Britain's most prominent architectural firm Foster and Partners has recently proposed the SkyCycle - an interesting lateral (or vertical) solution to provision of safe new cycle routes in...
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The findings of Scotland's 2011 Census - published last month - by the Registrar General for Scotland , providing estimates of method of travel to work or study in Scotland in that year, found...
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Ricardo has today announced that the Department for Transport has commissioned the Shoreham-by-Sea based engineering consultancy and others to research platooning technology , specifically...
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Energy Efficiency
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The Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) is developing a national network of specialist centres of excellence – it calls Spokes - to support industry with specialist academic, technological and...
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A total of £2,300,000 is to be made available for two Niche Vehicle Network (NVN) funding competitions under its automotive research and development programme . Sponsored by the Office for...
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In addition to the ‘in person’ networking event for a second Low Carbon Vehicle Demonstration competition, Networking & Consortia Building Event Networking & Consortia Building Event...
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Speaking today at the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership annual conference, Transport Minister Andrew Jones announced there will be £19 million of government funding made available through an...
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KTN will be hosting an Advanced Materials Innovation Showcase at this year’s Cenex LCV 2016 Low Carbon Vehicle Event on 14 and 15 September at Millbrook, and our materials team has...
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Newly completed research highlighted a perceived lack of clarity about the precise meaning of low emission commercial vehicles. Since there is no drive cycle test suited to the operation of commercial vehicles there’s no certainty that any commercial vehicle will actually qualify as ‘low emission’ in real operating conditions. This uncertainty was found to have the effect of deterring investment in low emissions vehicles, in response to which LowCVP’s Andy Eastlake described work on developing a more representative drive cycle.
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The German office of the UK Science and Innovation Network (SIN) and local agencies, via KTN, are inviting UK researchers in e-mobility for a subsidised three day mission in October to...
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Nissan has announced a trial of a vehicle to grid trial and unveiled a home energy storage solution to complement its Nissan Leaf vehicles, plus other developments designed at an announcement...
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Go Ultra Low - a campaign to increase purchase consideration of electric vehicles supported by the government and SMMT - has today announced a new initiative for public and private sector...
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Ricardo has previewed the objectives and full lineup of Project FEVER, a two year Innovate UK supported collaborative R&D project for which it will design through-the-road hybrid demonstrator vehicles integrating Control Power Technologies electric motors within the rear axle, for similar efficiency gains as for full electric hybrids but offering significantly cheaper manufacturing costs.
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Cenex – the organiser of the UK’s largest technology showcasing and networking event for the UK low carbon vehicle community – is inviting organisations to submit an Expression of Interest...
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The Department for Transport and Office for Low Emission Vehicles Plans have today announced a £2 million fund to encourage more businesses to switch to hydrogen-fuelled vehicles . The Fuel...
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According to provisional data compiled by the European Environment Agency (EEA) the average CO2 emissions for new cars sold in 2013 in Europe was 127 grammes of carbon dioxide per kilometre,...
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Shell has today unveiled a three seater concept city car which, if it were ever to go into production, is claimed would deliver a 34% reduction in primary energy use over its entire...
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Cenex today announced the opening for registration for its ninth annual Low Carbon Vehicle Event – LCV2016 taking place on 14 and 15 September 2016, at Millbrook in Bedfordshire. Last...
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The European Commission yesterday launched two Horizon prizes to support the identification of ideas for drastically reducing air pollution caused by transport . As previewed by Mark...
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Qualcomm Incorporated and Shoreham, West Sussex, based Ricardo have this month announced a technology licence agreement under which Ricardo will commercialize Qualcomm’s Halo wireless...
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BOC , the UK’s largest supplier of industrial gases, and ITM Power , an energy storage and clean fuel company, have announced an agreement under which BOC will be provide infrastructure...
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Ben Peace, KTN’s Sustainability Lead, will be one of the presenters at seminar coming up in May that will examine the challenges associated with the manufacture, in-vehicle use, remanufacturing...
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The Department for Transport , Andrew Jones MP , Innovate UK and Office for Low Emission Vehicles have jointly announced support for 44 projects, involving around 130 companies resulting...
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KTN has published a comprehensive review of the latest calls for proposals within the Horizon 2020 Fuel Cell Hydrogen Joint Undertaking provided by Jean-Luc Delplancke, Head of its Programme Unit. The 88 minute webinar offers detailed guidance for potential applicants for the latest round, offering a total of €117.5 million of funding - with a deadline for applications of 3 May 2016.
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ITM Power and The Centre for Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence (CEME) have jointly announced that, following planning approval, that a memorandum of understanding has been...
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The University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), together with Vehicle suspension specialists Tinsley Bridge Limited and engineering design company Performance...
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Last Monday, Northamptonshire-based prototyping and low-volume component manufacturer Vayon became the latest company to confirm participation in the £13.2 million Automated Module-to-pack...
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Timed with a visit last Friday to Morgan Motor Company in Malvern, Business Secretary Sajid Javid announced the succesful recipients of the latest round of Advanced Propulsion Centre...
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After completion of the Innovate UK supported in-service trial of a Wrightbus StreetLite midi bus fitted with a Flybrid mechanical kinetic energy recovery system (KERS), Torotrak has announced...
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edie Live, formerly Sustainability Live, an exhibition on energy, sustainability and resource efficiency to be held next May at the NEC, will feature an opportunity for SMEs to present new...
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Boosted by the announcement in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement that its funding plans are to be protected , this week The Advanced Propulsion centre announced a forthcoming compeition named...
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My Electric Avenue, a three-year Ofgem-funded project that has been carrying out trials to discover the impact that charging clusters of electric vehicles (EVs) might have on local electricity networks at peak times, has extrapolated its findings to state that, across Britain, 32% of local electricity networks (312,000 circuits) will require intervention when 40% - 70% of customers have EVs.
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To assist with applications for the Horizon 2020 Nature Based Solutions and Smart Cities Communities EU funding calls (one of which includes 'electromobility' within its scope), this month's KTN...
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Leading up to the COP21 international climate talks in Paris , ENGIE (the French energy company), National Physics Laboratory , Climate-KIC (an EU climate innovation...
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Two deadlines of significance to vehicle emissions reduction are coming up in the first week November. Firstly, midnight of Monday 2 November is the strict deadline for applying to the ...
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As its Ofgem Low Carbon Networks funding comes to an end, the My Electric Avenue project a Turning the Corner finale event on 3 December 2015 to share its results of its trials of the effects of operating high local concentrations of electric vehicles on the electrical grid.
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The event will also provide details of what is described as a ‘Legacy Initiative’ to provide the platform for collaboration between the automotive and utilities sectors.
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The High Speed Sustainable Manufacturing Institute (HSSMI), a research and technology development not-for-profit, is hosting a free to attend meeting in partnership with EnvAqua Solutions, ...
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Shell Springboard provides funding to UK entrepreneurs at the cutting-edge of the low-carbon economy. In 2016 funding awards of up to £150,000 are available for small enterprises with...
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KTN Materials team is hosting its HiPerNano 2015 exhibition at the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining High Performance Nano-engineering in London on 2 and 3 November with the aim...
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The fifteen winning 15 projects being supported for the The Adapting cutting-edge technologies competition include potential innovations in lightweigting of electric and internal combustion engined vehicles, improved engine efficiencies and emission reduction, improved EV battery and thermal management, energy recovery systems, non-venting LNG for HGVs and a zero emission bus.
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By chance or by prescient timing, on the day following official release of the Draft Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2016-2017 for ‘Smart, green and integrated transport’, KTN hosted a brokerage event for the European Green Vehicle Initiative (EGVI), that's one of three ‘calls’ within the EU Commission programme, that attracted 48 delegates to explore its funding and collbaoration opportunities.
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A consortium led by Innovate UK , and comprising Department of Energy & Climate Change , Transport Scotland (working with Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Government ), KTN , UK...
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In Droitwich, Worcester, on 3 September KTN helped engender lively networking and promotional endeavours for some of the most potentially rewarding funding support for UK businesses seeking to rise the chalelnge made by Innovate UK for industry to go even further in innovating to reduce CO2 emissions of road vehicles.
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In the Regents conference centre, behind Chateau Impney, built Louis XIII style by the nineteenth century salt magnate John Corbett, a beneficiary of the country’s canal infrastructure. More recently, in keeping with a location at the heart of the UK motor industry, the grounds were host to the Chateau Impney Hill Climb speed trials.
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Both competitions offered support to innovative, commercial solutions to increase the resilience, quality of life or economic performance of urban areas by integrating environmental, social and/or economic data with data from other sources, with the projects to last two years and the feasibility studies one year.
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OXIS Energy has announced its participation in the ALISE project , a €6.9 million Horizon 2020 funded pan European collaboration that is setting out to develop and commercially scale-up...
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Highways England has announced that it is commissioning test track trials of wireless charging technology for charing electric and hybrid vehicles are to take place later this year. This...
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Innovate UK and the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) have today officially announced the scope and supporting event signups details for two new competitions to support the automotive...
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Innovate UK will be opening two competitions next month relevant to low carbon vehicles, both to offer significant funding to encourage development of technologies with potential to further...
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Ahead of its annual conference, LowCVP has published a series of roadmaps for how to expand the low carbon fuels infrastructure required to meet climate change commitments could come about,...
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This Wednesday’s Financial Times included a feature on Bridgnorth, Shropshire, based maker of high-integrity castings Grainger & Worrall , ostensibly as a study of the management issues in...
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A recent report produced by CE publications and commissioned by Greenpeace claims that almost half of domestic transport emissions are from corporate fleets, and 8% of total EU GHG...
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Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) will again be a highly visible presence at this year’s Cenex-LCV show - the UK’s premier low carbon vehicle event, to be held at Millbrook Proving Ground,...
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Tell us how we can help! We're looking to form a picture of what activities may, or may not, be underway in local efforts to de-carbonise vehicle fleets, to enable development of a...
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Subsequent to its declaration of interest in participating in the soon to close Spearheading Electric Vehicle Battery Production competition , Sheffield-based battery R&D business...
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As an update to its previously announced Fourth APC Funding Competition , the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC), in partnership with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)...
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The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has this week heralded the latest reported emissions levels of newly registered vehicles showing a continued reduction in average...
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On 15 April 2015 in Solihull, prospective candidate companies grasped an early opportunity to impress with their suitability as potential partners at the Innovate UK and Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) Spearheading electric vehicle battery production competition briefing and networking event.
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Last month The Advanced Propulsion Centre announced £80 million of funding for four projects designed to bring fuel cells into van fleets, develop high efficiency transmissions and new...
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Innovate UK announced on 25 March investment, with the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV), combined investment of up to £10 million for a consortium to develop a...
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Ricardo-AEA, in partnership with another consultancy company E4tech, has been retained to administer the UK Government’s Office for Low Emission Vehicles’ (OLEV) ‘hydrogen refuelling...
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19 January 2015 - Nissan has announced today that its Nissan LEAF all-electric car has increased its sales volume in Europe by 33% in Europe in 2014 , gaining more than a quarter share of the...
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The 43 months ENIAC and EU FP7 supported MotorBrain project - that researched increased range and reliability of electric vehicles with reduced dependence of rare earth metals - has ...
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Power and automation company ABB announced on 16 December the launch of the TEN-T Co-Funded Project European Long-Distance Electric Clean Transport Road Infrastructure Corridor (aka ELECTRIC) ....
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Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC), has published to YouTube its 8 December webinar presentation by Michael Clarke of BIS , in which he describes how explained how BIS assesses for value for...
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LowCVP, the public-private partnership that promotes lower carbon vehicles and fuels, has been commissioned by the Department for Transport to survey business attitudes on the likely...
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The Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) has published guidance for local authorities on applying for the Go Ultra Low City Scheme , a competition offering £35m of capital funding to two to...
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Gas Vehicle Hub , the web site maintained by Cenex and funded by the KTN, has published a summary of a workshop and review one year into the trial , held at LCV2014 in September, with 257 of...
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EValu8 Transport Innovations , a not for profit organisation specialising in sustainable transport, is currently offering grants to the value of £1000 to support low carbon transport ideas ...
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The UK's first ever bus powered on food waste and human poo has taken to the road this week which Avonmouth based GENeco believes could provide a sustainable way of fuelling public transport. ...
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LowCVP, the public-private partnership set up to promote lower carbon vehicles and fuels, has today invited interested parties to participate in a workshop, to be held in Central London on...
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The company also said it the consortium intends to investigate hydrogen as a means to provide power to the manufacturing plant.
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At the official launch of the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) at the University of Warwick , Business Secretary Vince Cable today a third round offering £100 million for...
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A ceremony was held yesterday to mark the official launch of the UK’s first commercial scale solar-powered hydrogen production and refuelling facility . Designed and commissioned by the Green...
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The Mayor and Transport for London (TfL) on Monday (27 October 2014) opened a public consultation on proposals to introduce what they branded a Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) in order to...
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Air Products has announced that the first hydrogen refuelling station to be located at supermarket forecourt will be installed at Sainsbury’s Hendon store by the end of this year. ...
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Business Minister Matthew Hancock announced this month that up to £11 million of funding is being made available for hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) infrastructure . The...
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GKN announced it has developed what it claims is the world’s first Disconnect All-Wheel Drive System for A-, B- and C-segment vehicle platforms , which improves fuel economy during steady state...
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According to research by Confused.com, UK drivers are changing their driving habits to fight against CO2 emissions , with more than a third (38%) of Brits admitting that they are conscious...
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The Office for Low Emission Vehicles yesterday announced that it will co-fund the Innovate UK IDP11 competition - Adapting cutting-edge technologies Competition with £11m. As a result...
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A barrier to uptake of low carbon gas-powered trucks has been access to reliable information on gas refuelling stations. To combat this, Cenex , with funding from the Knowledge Transfer Network...
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Announced alongside a new Community Energy Policy Statement , the Scottish Government has launched a new Local Energy Challenge fund , supported by £20 million of grant funding for...
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Innovate UK ’s competition offering investment totalling up to £3m for collaborative R&D projects that could reduce off-highway vehicle emissions, or improvements operational efficiency,...
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Knowledge Transfer Network as previous years at the leading low carbon vehicle industry gathering hosted the InnovateUK forum on both days of LCV2014 - 10 and 11...
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To encourage early applications to the previously featured Clean and Cool Mission 2015 - a subsidised networking opportunity for CEOs of early stage companies, including in the...
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Innovate UK - the rebranded name of Technology Strategy Board - has announced the supported projects it plans to showcase at LCV2014 , the UK’s premier low carbon vehicle event to be held...
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Eddie Stobart , Waitrose and United Biscuits were pre-announced by Cenex as representative participants of the thirteen projects of the currently in progress Low Carbon...
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Transport for London today (Wednesday 27 August) announced that it is to trial inductive charging technology to enable specially designed buses to wirelessly charge their batteries while...
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R&D Vehicle Systems Limited (RDVS), a Banbury based electrical and electronic design consultancy, announced this month the completion of the Sustainable Lightweight Low Cost Battery Systems...
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Nine Universities have been selected by Cenex - the organiser of LCV 2014 the UK’s largest technology event for the UK low carbon vehicle community - to feature their current...
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The University of Warwick’s International Manufacturing Centre (WMG) has announced last week that it is to host the central Hub of the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) - a new government...
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Clean and Cool Mission 2015 , a trade mission to San Francisco supported in part by Technology Strategy Board , is seeking applications from clean tech companies, including in the automotive...
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KTN Transport Community hosted the elevator pitches at the TSB IDP 11 / OHV Consortium Building Networking Event yesterday at The Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon, Warwickshire on 3 July - marshalling over 30 companies pitching for collaborations to an audience of 215 registered delegates.
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The expertise on show was of such quality that one delegate live-Tweeted that the expertise presented explains UK’s leadership in automotive sector innovation.
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With less than two weeks to go before the IDP11 and Off-Highway Vehicles Networking and Consortium Building event at the Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon, on 3 July - the deadline for the...
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Preliminary analysis one year into the two year Low Carbon Truck Trial has found relatively low CO2 savings of only up to 9% compared to standard diesel trucks, partly due to efficiency...
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OXIS Energy announced last week it is to collaborate with Perpetuus Carbon Group to develop graphene-enabled electrodes for future versions of its lithium sulfur (Li-S) batteries . ...
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Liquid Air Energy Network - a pressure group that advocates the use of liquid air within power and transport - this month published the report Liquid Air On The Highway claiming a...
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This week at the JSAE Annual Congress in Yokohama, Japan, Loughborough-based Intelligent Energy introduced its Gen4 air-cooled fuel cell power unit, designed for easy integration...
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According to press reports last month , following a review, the maximum payment to firms under the Low Carbon Freight Dividend scheme that supports small and medium sized businesses in the...
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Lancaster-based engineering research and development company Oaktec was, on 7 May, awarded first prize - plus £40,000 - in winning the 2014 Shell Springboard awards , in recognition of the...
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Fast on the heels of the first four projects announced on 23 April under the Advanced Propulsion Centre initiative , the Technology Strategy Board has announced an additional £75m investment...
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Descriptions of the winning project proposals entered in the Supply chain innovation towards a circular economy competition have been published this month by the Technology Board, that offered...
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The winning project for the Technology Strategy Board and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) competition Unlocking the hydrogen energy market, that sought proposals in the autumn of last year, have recently been announced.
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The winning project featured proposals for quality assurance of hydrogen as a fuel; a proof-of-concept fuel cell powered unmanned aircraft for marine applications; a non-polluting replacement for diesel or petrol generators; thermoplastic composite vessels and pipes suitable for hydrogen; and a safety safety sensor unit for vehicle hydrogen tanks.
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According to provisional data compiled by the European Environment Agency (EEA) the average CO2 emissions for new cars sold in 2013 in Europe was 127 grammes of carbon dioxide per kilometre,...
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30 April 2014 - Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg yesterday announced the main elements of a £500 million package of measures to support the development and use of ultra low emission vehicles...
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Coinciding with approval of draft changes to European rules to allow for more aerdynamic trucks, Waitrose has released an update on developments concerning its involvement in the Low Carbon...
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New rules designed to achieve the CO2 emission reduction target of 95g/km for new cars by 2020 were endorsed by Parliament on today . The amended legislation retained this previously agreed...
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With the Highway Agency's eight week consultation period for a proposed 60mph speed limit between junctions 28 to 35a of the M1 due to close next week, modelling by Emissions Analytics ...
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The 2014 Future Powertrain Conference, running today and tomorrow at the National Motorcycle Museum near Birmingham showed that legislation for low emissions is driving vehicle powertrains towards complexity - and greater opportunities for engineering solutions that could profit UK industry.
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The MIRA led COOL-E Project, a recipient of just under £1.5 million under Disruptive technologies in low carbon vehicles II competition - funded by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and the...
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4/2/14 - The Deputy Prime Minister's Office , Department for Transport , Department of Energy & Climate Change and Office for Low Emission Vehicles - together with car...
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The French industrial battery company Saft has been awarded a multi-million Euro, five-year contract by Hitachi Rail Europe to supply fully integrated battery systems to provide backup...
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TransportKTN is helping promote the currently open TSB competition Localised energy systems - a cross-sector approach , which is to invest up to £11m in a programme of collaborative research...
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Transport operator FirstGroup on Friday 17 January 2014 announced that its UK bus division has ordered 425 new vehicles worth £70m for delivery in the 2014/15 financial year . The order,...
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Ilika , a research spin-off from the University of Southampton, last week announced it has achieved a simple methodology for producing a stacked solid-state cell battery that, it says, is...
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A record nine major car manufacturers are exhibiting their vehicles at this year's Consumer Electronics Show , the world's largest annual technology fair, currently being held in Las...
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Ecotive, a division of Frazer-Nash , unveiled its UK-built electric powered Metrocab taxi, in the presence of London's Mayor Boris Johnson on the 19 December . The Range-Extended...
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Earlier this month, the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership , a public-private partnership working to accelerate a sustainable shift to lower carbon vehicles and fuels and create opportunities for...
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With background issues of "considerable challenges" facing farm and rural transport, the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) last month commissioned a report to study the potential for...
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Transport for London has released details of a trial of biodiesel for ten bus routes operating from Stagecoach's Barking depot . Used cooking oil and other food waste products are being...
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The UK Government has launched a call for evidence on measures to support the uptake of ultra low emission vehicles (ULEV) between 2015 and 2020. At present the UK is supporting the market...
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Transport & Travel Research, has been commissioned by the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) to study the future expansion of the low carbon bus market in the UK, and is seeking the...
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The Automotive Engineering Show 2013 , taking place at the NEC in Birmingham from Tuesday 12 to Wednesday 13 November, features a series of ‘innovation in action’ events that...
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Researchers from the Powertrain and Vehicle Research Centre (PVRC) in the University of Bath's Department of Mechanical Engineering have been awarded £3.2 million of funding...
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Volvo Car Group announced the completion a study of inductive charging for electric vehicles – claiming promising results for the technology for transferring energy via an electromagnetic...
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Reported by the Commission website , and in August by Ricardo , the EU funded Powerdriver collaborative project has completed simulation work and is progressing to production of a...
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Volvo announced that it has helped develop a new concept for lightweight structural energy storage components that could improve the energy usage of future electrified vehicles . ...
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A European Commission-backed Rapid Charge Network project has been announced which will see the installation of a rapid charge network of 74 rapid chargers across more than 1,100kms of major...
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Energy company Ecotricity and Volkswagen Group (UK) Ltd have announced a partnership to offer purchasers of forthcoming Volkswagen and Audi branded electric cars to promote the option...
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In September the Automotive Council published eleven 'roadmaps' to illustrate the advances that are planned in the automotive technology in coming decades . These consensus roadmaps...
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The Energy Saving Trust, the social enterprise that advises on reducing carbon emissions, says its analysis shows that business could save a combined total of almost £200 million if just 10% of...
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The UK's largest trial of electric cars found that 91% of trial drivers said that they would recommend an electric car to others, and 72% said that an electric car would be fine to suit...
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The latest Technology Strategy Board funding awards for Low Carbon Vehicle collaborative R&D projects, IDP rounds 8 & 9, awarded funding for five projects led by, or participated in, by Shoreham-by-Sea based Ricardo.
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Also under Low Carbon Vehicles Proof of Concept IDP 8 funding call, Ricardo's CryoPower engine project - also described as the Split Cycle Engine, has been funded in partnership with the University of Brighton and Hiflux Limited together awarded £430,381.
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At the sixth Drive ‘n’ Ride event, held last week in Brussels to discuss how hydrogen powered fuel cell electric vehicles could help meet European emission targets, a ‘chicken and egg’ scenario...
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The MOD’s Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) organisation - that procures and supports all the equipment and services for the MOD - has today launched the Land Vehicle Exercise (LVEx)...
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A selection of NVN's previous awards winners were on display inside and outside the LCV 2013 halls, including the Morgan Plus E, developed in partnership with Zytek Automotive and Potenza Technology, shown above.
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The projects, each lasting no more than 6 months, have been funded to develop a range of innovative low carbon solutions for both niche and volume vehicle manufacturers. Investment into the engineering projects has been provided by the NVN (a network of niche vehicle manufacturers, specialist technology and supply chain companies), with backing from the Technology Strategy Board and the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV).
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One of the twenty seven low carbon vehicle collaborative research & development grants awarded under the Technology Strategy Board's Low Carbon Vehicles Innovation Platform, that was...
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Last Wednesday at LCV 2013, twenty seven collaborative research & development (CR&D) projects worth more than £45 million were announced as the winners from two Technology Strategy...
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Alongside an exhibit at LCV 2013, last Wednesday Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) announced it is to lead a research and development programme for a new generation of hybrid and...
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As reported last week, two events are coming up this month related to Technology Strategy Board competitions in the field of Hydrogen and Fuel Cells.
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GKN Driveline has announced details of its All-Wheel Drive System, branded as Land Rover’s ‘ Active Driveline’ as fitted to the enhanced 2014 Range Rover Evoque. A unique ‘disconnect’ all-wheel...
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The Department for Transport (DfT) has awarded grants to eleven local authorities from the Clean Bus Technology Fund, which will allow almost 400 buses to be upgraded in other to reduce...
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Cenex has announced the winning entrants for its SME and microenterprise Technology Showcase at LCV2013 , an opportunity for selected small companies involved in developing low carbon...
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Having announced in April that it had joined the London Hydrogen Partnership (LHP) , Hyundai has promised to deliver five of of its Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell models - the first production fuel...
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The Niche Vehicle Network - an association of over 100 smaller vehicle manufacturers, specialist technology companies and supply chain - is to announce the winners of its 2013 Niche Vehicle...
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The Energy Saving Trust Fleet Hero Awards - with an entry deadline of this Friday (23 August 2013) - celebrates public and private bodies that operate vehicle fleets that have successfully...
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Arising from a three and half year, Technology Strategy Board funded, project - the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has announced the development of a lead-free, high temperature ceramic...
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Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership, that since 2009 has published a directory of UK companies with low carbon automotive capabilities, has published an online version of the directory, opening it up for companies to submit their own details.
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The money will be used for private sector investment in one or more demonstration-scale advanced biofuel plants in order to drive the development of the UK’s biofuel industry.
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Advanced biofuels are made from materials, for example municipal waste and forestry residues, using complex processing techniques. They can produce a wide range of transport fuels including replacements for those used in road transport and aviation.
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Transport Minister Norman Baker said, “I am delighted that we are able to support these innovative technologies and believe that they will bring significant benefits to the UK. There are real opportunities for the UK to take a technological lead, driving growth, creating highly skilled jobs and seeing energy, security and environmental benefits."
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“It is clear that in the long term advanced biofuels will be important in areas that we cannot otherwise decarbonise, such as aviation. This announcement will help put the UK in a good position to meet this demand.”
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The coalition government will provide 75% of the cost of installing new chargepoints.
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The first public use of the Electric Defender is towing the 12 tonne road train up and down the 6% incline from the top of the former china clay pit to Cornwall's most popular tourist attraction.
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The first Electric Defender Unveiled at this year’s Geneva Motor Show, the Land Rover Electric Defender is a pioneering research project into the electrification of an all-terrain vehicle.
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AFC Energy, a Cranleigh, Surrey, based developer of low-cost alkaline fuel cell technology has announced the continuous oration of its fuel cell for 12 months, or 8,7600 hours, and running . ...
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The Greater Manchester Electric Vehicle (GMEV) scheme, a new electric vehicle charging point network and pay as you go programme, led by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM), went live on...
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The £10 million prize is to encourage commercial and investment opportunities in Britain’s car industry. It will be presented for the technological improvements which enable ultra-low emissions vehicles to run as long as and as far as conventionally fuelled cars, without needing to stop or burn fossil fuel.
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Shell has released a new device called the In-Cab Screen for Shell FuelSave Partner , its advanced telematics system for heavy goods vehicles. The In-Cab Screen tablet, which is connected...
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Included in the Government's spending round, as presented to Parliament last month, was a commitment to continue to support the development of electric vehicles, including by offering a prize of up to £10 million dedicated Research and Development funding to develop long-life battery technology for electric vehicles.
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Details of this and other aspects of the Government's commitment to the transition to ULEVs will be set out in the ULEV strategy later this year.
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However, that prize was dwarfed by a what George Osborne described as "an historic shift in the UK’s approach to roads, underpinned by the biggest programme of investment since the 1970s".
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"By 2020-21 the Government will treble investment in major new road enhancements from today’s levels", as stated in Investing in Britain’s future, the document presented by to Parliament by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
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A study by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the EU Commission's in-house science service, on recent research on electric cars in the EU suggest that better exchange of information and more coordination between projects would result in a better leverage of the €1.9 billion investment, 65% of which comes from public funding.
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Chargemaster Plc , a £3.6 million turnover, Luton-based, provider of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, has announced it intends to raise funds and seek admission of shares to trading...
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ACAL Energy Ltd , a Runcorn, Cheshire, based chemical engineering company, has announced that its FlowCath chemistry and engineering has announced it has managed to run a testbed PEM...
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Atos, an international IT services company, through its international business unit Atos Worldgrid , has launched a Smartphone application to provides drivers of electric vehicles with a...
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Loughborough-based Intelligent Energy and Sheffield-based ITM Power are among a number of companies and bodies that have formed a consortium to plan a hydrogen refuelling infrastructure in...
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At last week's Automotive Cleantech Conference in London, Teva Motors announced - as reported by Cleantech - a partnership with China's second largest truck manufacturer JAC Motor to...
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Prior to this weekend's British F1 Grand Prix, a Financial Times feature observed that the recovery in their balance sheets, as well as its marketing benefits and the chalelenge of...
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Having previously hinting in a Stock Exchange filing that its S model was designed with a swappable battery in mind, last Thursday at Tesla's design studio in Hawthorne, California, Elon...
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Exeter-based Ashwoods Electric Motors Limited , a spin-out from hybrid vans maker Ashwoods Automotive, has recently entered full production of its own range of Permanent Magnet electric...
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Camcon Automotive , a Foxton, Cambridgeshire, based developer of precision actuation systems, is featured in Automotive Design magazine for its development of a valve operating system that...
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Source London , an electric vehicle charge point network and membership scheme, having achieved a the Mayor of London’s commitment to provide 1,300 publicly accessible charging points has...
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Isis Innovation , Oxford University's technology transfer company, has invited companies to discuss commercial opportunities for a new manufacturing process that promises scalable...
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A comparison of official and "real-world" fuel consumption and "real-world" CO2 emission values for cars in Europe and the United States, published by The International...
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Five bus manufacturers and eight bus operators are to benefit from orders part funded by government for their eco-friendly hybrid, electric and gas buses, with many of the buses being assembled...
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The UK’s first open access Bio-LNG filling station , built by Gasrec , was launched last Thursday (May 23) in an official opening by Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Department for...
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The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) recently published a Standardization Roadmap for Electric Vehicles – Version 2.0 , developed by the Institute’s Electric Vehicles...
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For the purpose of the ETI programme HDVs include marine vessels, HGVs, coaches, buses, tractors, construction machines, quarry machines and mining machines.
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Vantage Power , a Greenford, Middlesex-based startup developing a hybrid-electric powertrain for retrofitting in buses, was last week awarded the winning prize in the 2013 Shell Springboard...
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Ricardo plc has announced it is to work with Electricore , a Valencia, California-based research organisation that has received a $750,000 award from California Energy Commission to perform a...
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As reported in Car Scoops , at the Fortune Brainstorm Green conference in Laguna Niguel, California, Chris Hostetter, group vice president of strategic planning for Toyota USA, told...
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For the third year, the European Environment Agency (EEA) has collected EU Member States' data on passenger car registrations , in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 443/2009. All Member...
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UK Power Networks Services - who are responsible for electrical infrastructure services for London's Victoria Line - has commissioned Alstom to supply a trial installation of its Harmonic...
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In what founder Elon Musk said was is an attmept to provide extra peace of mind to owners of its Model S, Tesla has made annual servicing of its Model S optional without voiding the service...
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With a background of one fifth of all CO2 emissions in Europe being produced by cars in use, having increased by 26% between 1990 and 2008, the European Parliament's environment committee...
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Business and Energy Minister Michael Fallon last week welcomed the publication of the full UKH2Mobility report on hydrogen vehicles , as well as welcoming Sainsbury’s as a partners in the...
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Business and Energy Minister Michael Fallon last week welcomed the publication of the full UKH2Mobility report on hydrogen vehicles , as well as welcoming Sainsbury’s as a partners in...
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A team from the University of Exeter, with support from Shell , has claimed it has developed a method to make a fuel almost identical to conventional diesel fuel using special strains of E....
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The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, today confirmed his decision to introduce a new, lower, Ultra Low Emission Discount (ULED) for the Congestion Charge scheme . To qualify for a a 100%...
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The first electric cars to emerge from the partnership between Volvo Cars and Siemens, expected this summer, will incorporate a new 22 kW fast-charger - claimed as the world's first on-board...
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Ford motor company announced a £24 million investment programme at its Bridgend engine plant in Wales for production of a new fuel-efficient 1.5-litre EcoBoost petrol engine . ...
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In a deal that includes warehousing at the Port of Liverpool, global cereal company Kellogg is to substantially increase the volume of breakfast cereals it will transport using Peel Ports'...
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Researchers at Queen’s University have announced the discovery of a cheaper method for making a substance similar to graphene , a material discovered in 2004 with potentially exciting...
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Hyundai Motor Company today announced it has joined the London Hydrogen Partnership (LHP), having signed an agreement signed with LHP representatives, including Deputy Mayor, Kit...
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In a joint press release Intelligent Energy , Dyson Technology , Ricardo and TRW Conekt have today announced that Enhanced Fuel Cell Systems, a project part-funded by the Technology...
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To reduce the initial purchase price for the 100% electric car, with its LEAF now in production in the UK, for the first time Nissan is offering buyers the option to lease the battery . ...
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Peugoet has announced the launch next month of an all - electric version of the Partner, the UK’s best-selling small van . The Peugeot Partner Electric launches in the UK on 23...
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Toyota last week reported that Hybrid cars accounted for a record 20% of European Toyota and Lexus sales in the first quarter of 2013 , which, it says, highlights buyers’ increasing...
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Two recent reports on low carbon vehicles have presented strongly positive endorsements for the potential economic benefits, in terms of economy as a whole and UK car manufacturing sector in particular.
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Vessel Efficiency
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The International Festival for Business 2016 , to be held in Liverpool on 13 June to 1 July, includes of relevance to the marine industry a workshop co-hosted by the Association of...
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What are the challenges and opportunities for post-project winners of the first Innovate UK R&D competition call? This was the opening salvo question, posed at the KTN and Innovate...
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What are the challenges and opportunities for post-project winners of the first Innovate UK R&D competition call?
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This was the opening salvo question, posed at the KTN and Innovate UK 12 April ‘cohort project exchange day’ at the London headquarters of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, held to listen to and assist successful participants in the first Vessel Efficiency competition, launched back in 2013.
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WITT Energy , maker of the WITT (Whatever Input to Torsion Transfer) device that was first supported by Innovate UK’s Marine Vessel Efficiency competition in 2013, has closed a crowdfunding...
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The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has issued a ‘request for proposals’ to design, deliver and demonstrate a waste heat recovery system technology (WHR) suitable for shipping. As part...
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The UK Marine Industries Alliance (MIA) has launched an industry Code of Conduct for surface Maritime Autonomous Systems, to help establish “pan industry agreement on aspects of Surface Maritime Autonomous Systems (MAS(S)) development, design, production and operation in advance of and alongside the establishment of governing regulations”.
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The code specifies nine ‘Industry Principles’ intended to make sure that such systems are operated safely and responsibly, and in compliance with regulations.
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The code was produced by the UK Maritime Autonomous Systems Regulatory Working Group, that was established in 2014 to focus on the regulation of unmanned surface vehicles, and currently has over 30 members from a broad section of government, industry and academia, including KTN.
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KTN hosted a seminar on Innovation in Maritime Navigation in collaboration with the Royal Institute of Navigation and the General Lighthouse Authorities on 2 March 2015 at Trinity House,...
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The Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI), a coalition of shipping companies from around the world working to achieve a more sustainable shipping industry has published a report on its recent...
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The Porchester based supplier of unmanned and autonomous marine systems, with 60 employees in the UK and USA, specialises in USV design, build, operation and maintenance.
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KTN is hosting a seminar on Innovation in Maritime Navigation in collaboration with the Royal Institute of Navigation and the General Lighthouse Authorities on 2 March 2015 at Trinity...
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Our colleagues in KTN’s Electronics, Sensors, Photonics community, working with Air Accidents Investigation Branch , are seeking expert advice on a planned SBRI call for more efficient and...
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The competition results were published by Innovate UK in a document dated 7 April 2015 listing eight projects that succeeded in the assessment stage of this competition, noting that these were subject to grant offer and conditions being met.
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A consortium of UK companies and academic partners, led by Reddich-based electronics components and systems supplier Steatite , and co-funded by Innovate UK , has announced that it is to...
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12 February 2015 - Silverstream Technologies and Shell last week announced findings of sea trial of Silverstream Technologies’ air lubrication technology for ships , the Silverstream...
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15 January 2015 - Innovate UK has today announced the opening of the Improving energy efficiency at sea: Managing energy on marine vessels competition , offering £7.5 million of grant...
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The Marine Industries Leadership Council (MILC) is currently arranging workshops for the marine industry to help develop future strategies for guiding research priorities. The outcome of which...
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AutoNaut ‘ Gordon ’, an autonomous vessel built by MOST (Autonomous Vessels) Ltd, just last month completed its first mission . Even if an autonomous vessel is unlikely to be...
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The Maritime Collaborative Enterprise - known as MarCE - has contacted KTN to connect with companies in comparatively narrow specialisms, from SMEs to multinationals, to be added to its...
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It's action stations at The Knowledge Transfer Network Transport Community (KTN) as we promote the live marine industry competitions and engage with UK industry to update the ...
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The National Oceanography Centre in Southampton’s main seminar room was ‘full to the gunwales’ for InnovateUK’s local introduction to two new marine R&D funding competitions, networking, ‘elevator pitch’ session and illuminating case histories from winners of the two previous marine competitions.
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UK Government to financially support the marine industry with two new collaborative R&D competitions for marine autonomous systems and improved ...
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The Ministry of Defence through the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (dstl) and in partnership with a number of associations and industry bodies announced it is to make a total of £9M...
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Matthew Hancock, MP for West Suffolk and freshly appointed Minister for Portsmouth combined with responsbility Minister of State for Business, Energy and Enterprise in the reshuffle...
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A third Marine competition (possibly Vessel Efficiency III (VEIII)) is expected to open early next year, and a Marine Autonomous Systems (MAS) competition is due to open in October. A series...
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Mermaid Marine - a Poole based marine diesel engine and generator ‘mariniser’ and distributor - has launched in the UK the Citius series of heavy duty engines from AGCO SISU Power , that it...
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Yesterday at the London Boat Show at the Excel Centre, Michael Fallon, Business and Energy Minister was on board to promote the official launch of Technology Strategy Board's competition ‘ ...
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According to an article in the Financial Times published on Boxing Day - Rolls-Royce looks to plot a course to the future with drone ships - Rolls-Royce is expecting drone cargo ships to enter...
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£3million competition - Vessel Efficiency 2 ( find out about this competition ) 26 November 2013 - Last Thursday (21 November), Transport KTN hosted the first of a series of networking and...
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The Technology Strategy Board has today (5 November 2013) announced details of its Vessel Efficiency II - better systems at sea competition , designed to build collaboration across the...
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A £190,000 development grant from the Technology Strategy Board has been awarded to Plymouth- based WITT Energy for a device designed to for generate renewable energy from...
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Last October in our Lightweighting section, we reported the light weighting characteristics this, the first modern RNLI all-weather lifeboat - RNLI reveals lighter and faster Shannon class...
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A Royal Academy of Engineering report Future Ship Powering Options: Exploring alternative methods of ship propulsion - published this month - recommends that shipping should adapt current...
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The UK’s first hydrogen-powered ferry, currently operating off Bristol’s Harbourside, was officially launched last Thursday (July 18), to showcase the commercial advantages of this...
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Upon visiting the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) at University College London last week, David Willetts MP highlighted the 'significant' benefits to the economy and environment that...
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The UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) last week announced that two south coast companies - ASV Ltd of Portchester and MOST (AV) Ltd of Chichester - have been awarded contracts under...
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The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), a research organisation funded by the ClimateWorks Foundation , has published an Assessment of fuel-cycle impact of LNG in...
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As reported in Maritime Journal , Northamptonshire UK based Axiom Water Propellers has released details of its propeller system for small ships and workboats that offers fuel efficiencies of...
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Rolls-Royce plc has announced it has won a contract to deliver its Azipull propulsion and control system for a new type of ferry which will operate on battery power alone. The vessel is...
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The EU Hybrid Marine (HyMar) Project - a collaborative research project led by the International Council of Marine Industry Associations (ICOMIA) funded under the EU's Seventh...
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ACCSEAS, an EU project developing navigation system for the marine industry in the North Sea, announced last week that it has demonstrated technology to automatically counter the threat of GPS...
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Responding to likely action this year from the European Commission to introduce monitoring, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas emissions from shipping , the European Community...
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Duke University, of Durham, NC, USA, reports the development of a material that can be applied like paint to the hull of a ship to dislodge bacteria by physically moving at the microscopic...
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Neftech has signed a 5 year agreement to treat the auxiliary engines of up to 50 of American President Lines container ships with nano particle additives in order to save on fuel...
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Eco Marine Power (EMP), a Japanese developer of solar, wind and electric marine power & propulsion systems, has announced it will collaborate with Solbian Energie...
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Teekay LNG Partners , stated on their website as being the third largest independent owner of LNG carriers, has ordered two 173,400m 3 LNG carriers from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine...
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Five Maersk Line vessels have undergone a ’nose job’ : getting bulbous bows retrofitted to improve fuel consumption. For one of these, the operation involved moving the new...
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Det Norske Veritas (DNV), the Norwegian classification society, and Process Systems Enterprise Ltd. (PSE), a London based provider of process modelling technology, have announced headline...
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Foreship BlueTech Ltd, a new Helsinki based company formed last month by Foreship Ltd and key employees of BlueTech to specialise in efficient and eco-friendly cargo ship standard designs, has...
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The EU Commission has announced support of over €1.2million from its TEN-T Programme for 50% funding of a study aimed at identifying and addressing barriers to the construction and...
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The German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Germanischer Lloyd (GL) have announced the renewal and expansion of an innovation cooperation agreement to jointly identify and develop novel...
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Maersk Line , the world’s largest container shipping company, has announced the attainment ahead of schedule of its 2020 target to reducing CO 2 emissions by 25% from its 2007...
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In reporting its fourth quarter results for 2012 , Euronav NV , the Belgian tanker operator and manger outlined some of its current and forthcoming fuel saving measures. Having...
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DNV, the Norwegian risk firm that recently announced a decision to merge with Germanischer Lloyd SE (GL Group), has used a new probabilistic model to analyse predicted pathways to...
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Quadrise , a supplier of a low cost alternative to heavy fuel oil in the shipping, refining, and power generation markets, announced that tests carried out by Mærsk in late 2012 on its...
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On Thursday 10 January 2013, STX Finland Oy’s Turku shipyard delivered the cruise ferry M/S Viking Grace to Viking Line ABP to operate as the most environmentally friendly large...
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Wärtsilä, the Finnnish marine solutions and services provider, has won the contract to supply the main engines and auxiliary generating sets for a new Scottish owned ferry . The RoPax...
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Fjellstrand AS has signed a contract with the ferry operator NORLED for the delivery of its ZeroCat 120 battery powered ferry . The contract comes as a result of NORLED winning the...
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On the first day of the 2013 Tullett Prebon London Boat Show Michael Fallon MP, Minister of State for Business and Enterprise, officially launched the Technology Strategy Board's...
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Oman Shipping Company (OSC) has taken delivery of its third Very Large Ore Carrier (VLOC) 'Vale Saham' in China on 4 January 2013 , which will be used to transport iron ore from Brazil...
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A joint GL and MAN study assessed the costs and benefits of container feeder vessels using LNG or scrubber technology, and reported significant possible cost savings for ships...
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A Swedish-Finnish proposal branded as “Make a Difference” is to be co-financed by the EU via the Trans-European Transport Network, as announced by participants of the campaign on 14...
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German engineering company IPP Ingenieur Partner Pool , in response to forthcoming regulations to cut sulphur emissions from shipping, has anounced details of its STREAM...
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According to a report today in the news site TheFishSite, Spain's Secretary General of Fisheries, Carlos Dominguez, has reiterated the support for initiatives aimed at improving the energy...
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d’Amico International Shipping, an Italian marine transportation company operating in the product tanker market, announced yesterday that its operating subsidiary d’Amico Tankers...
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In advance of International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) ship energy efficiency management plan (SEEMP) legislation becoming mandatory from January 2013, Finnish software company Napa ...
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Teekay LNG Partners last week announced that it has agreed to pay for the construction of two 173,400 cubic meter Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) carrier newbuildings, with options to...
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The International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) last week celebrated the re-opening of its Brussels office with representatives from EU Institutions , European...
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Maersk Line, Limited (MLL) has become the first shipping company to receive global certification from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) for energy management as specified in the Guide for...
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In a trial with a major cruise line earlier this year, Tidetech claim a bunker savings of one to four per cent on routes using its oceanographic data ithe Gulf...
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Azimut Yachts, the Viareggio, Tuscany, based luxury yacht maker, unveiled its Azimut Grande 140 Trideck with the Rolls Royce propulsion system at the 2012 Cannes Boat Show in September - as...
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Rolls-Royce today announced that it has secured a US$15 million contract to provide project management and integrated propulsion and control systems package to Jackson Offshore Operators , for...
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SeaChange Group of Cumberland, Maine, USA, has secured an award of loan and grants for product validation testing of low emission fuels it describes as Eco-Hybrid Fuels. SeaChange and...
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MAN Diesel & Turbo has released findings of efficiency comparisons for its ultra-long-stroke G-type engine - along with announcement of new orders for it more efficient diesel marine...
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Wärtsilä, the Helsinki, Finland, based marine propulsion compnay is to supply gas powered propulsion machinery and gas storage and handling systems for a new passenger ferry in...
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Extracted from a Lloyd's List interview last month - Stena chief slams 2015 sulphur emission rules - as reported in Interferry News - Dan Sten Olsson, chief executive of Stena...
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A report by Harry Valentine in The Maritime Executive suggest an efficient and cost-competitive gearless mechanical power transfer technology adapted from the era of steam may have...
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In an interview by Wendy Laursen for The Maritime Executive, "Can fuel cells powered by LNG be used for propulsion?" Professor Zuomin Dong of the University of Victoria, Canada, said...
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ABS , the Houston, Texas, based provider of classification services to the marine and offshore industry, has release a new Energy & Environmental Manager module within its NS5 Enterprise...
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Rolls-Royce , the power systems company, has signed an agreement with Italian company Lauro Shipping to design LNG powered ferries based on the Environship concept. This will be first...
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At a company event last week, Danish heat exchanger, separator, pump and valves manufacturer Alfa Lavel presented an overview of its marine business. It also announced new products,...
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DNV, the Norwegian risk management consultancy has produced a "scenario analysis" on global shipping over the next 8 years predicting a possible shift towards risk-based regulation...
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On 5 November, the CMA CGM Group took delivery of the largest vessel in its fleet and currently the world’s largest (capacity) containership, the CMA CGM MARCO POLO capable of carrying up...
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The speed sailing boat Vestas Sailrocket 2 has become the world’s fastest wind powered craft, smashing the previous Outright World Speed Sailing Record, in Walvis...
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In its third quarter 2012 report Nordic American Tankers (NAT) said it is implementing measures to reduce energy use across its fleet of tankers, especially for the main engines. It...
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According to a report by Reuters , there has been a rush of orders for new fuel-efficient tankers, which it is suggested, may exacerbate a current glut of ships that carry refined crude oil...
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Jeppese , the Boeing subsidiary that specialises in navigational information, operations management solutions and flight training products and services, had won a contract to supply BP...
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In a call to arms for the UK government to take a greater account of the strategic and economic importance of the marine supply chain , Lloyd’s Register CEO Richard Sadler strongly...
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With its strong dependence on gas-turbine engines for propulsion, the US Navy is looking to improve the fuel consumption of these engines. One potential method The US Naval Research Laboratory...
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With increasing use of composite materials in the transport and naval sectors the Eurocomp Project is researching ways to enable the recovery of part of the economic value of composite waste . ...
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The Council Of The European Union yesterday adopted a directive amending directive 1999/32/EC regarding the sulphur content of marine fuels . Implementing International...
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Siem Offshore has ordered an installation support vessel from Ulstein featuring a diesel electric propulsion system and two Voith Schneider Rudder ECS propeller units for...
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Rolls-Royce , is to develop a new, highly efficient water jet to propel unmanned surface craft for the US Navy . The new water jet will be the smallest Rolls-Royce design to date, with a...
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"I've seen the future of naval propulsion, and it's electrifying" was GE Power Conversion's Mark Dannatt bold prediction at this week's Euronaval exhibition and...
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MAN Diesel & Turbo has received an order from Chevron Corporation , the American multinational oil company, for two lightering vessels powered by an MAN B&W 6G70ME-C9.2 prime mover...
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According to a recent north American meeting of the martime classification society Germanischer Lloyd’s (GL), the challenge of improving vessel efficiency heads the agenda of every ship...
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Wärtsilä , the Helsinki-based marine solutions and services provider, has released details of its new, more efficient, Aframax tanker design , intended to meet...
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Rail
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The Rail Safety and Standards Board’s Train Operator Competition for 2016 , TOC-16, is currently open to the rail supply chain with train operators in order to support innovations addressing...
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It's less than two weeks to KTN’s Intelligent Sensing Programme 44: Health, Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance in Rail Infrastructure conference , at the National Railway Museum in York on 5...
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RSSB (via Rail Research UK Association (RRUKA)) is making up to £500,000 available for academic-led feasibility studies to identify novel solutions that will reduce the risk of delays, and...
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The European railway associations CER, CIT, EIM and UIChave this week published a joint Roadmap for digital railways, presented to promote what they call ‘the proper use of digital technology’, stated as essential for enhancing rail’s performance and increasing its attractiveness for customers.
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The next meeting of KTN’s Intelligent Sensing Programme , a regular get-together for KTN’s sensors community, will feature new technologies and developments in condition monitoring of...
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Transport System Catapult (TSC) has today, in partnership with Alstom, announced its Rail Grand Challenge , to fund small and medium enterprises to develop potentially innovative ideas...
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Safety and Standards Board yesterday announced the opening next month of its Train Operator Challenge 2016 - abbreviated to TOC’16, as its summer 2016 innovation competition, set to offer...
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On 30 March the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking (S2R JU) announced it received 43 proposals with a total funding request of close to €80 million in response to its first open call for...
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The eighteenth Unlocking Innovation Scheme networking event , sponsored by Hitachi, is to be held at 9:30 on 20 April in Nottingham, and is expected to preview RSSB’s forthcoming Train...
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The House of Commons Transport Committee has announced it is to investigate industry plans for deploying new digital technologies and how they will impact the use of the network by...
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The West Midlands Integrated Transport Authority has announced that it has begun negotiations with battery suppliers to fit a fleet of Midland Metro Urbos 3 trams with Lithium Ion batteries...
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RSSB has opened for expressions of interest a £4.5m competition to address the estimated £350m annual cost of track and vehicle running gear damage caused by vibration, a long standing...
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At the conclusion of its participation of the two year Digitally Enabling Electrification project, Atkins has laid out its experiences of applying open standards in line with...
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has ‘launched’ the web site SPACE4RAIL to highlight challenges and needs in the rail sector that could be met using space-based solutions, and to...
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The Rail Supply Group (RSG), the Department for Transport and Department for Business, Innovation and Skills supported group tasked with delivering opportunities for the UK rail supply chain, ...
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Shift2Rail has published slides presented at its recent Information Day on the current Shift2Rail open calls , held in Brussels. The presentations, made on 20 January 2016, include an...
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As previewed by Mark Gaddes of FutureRail at the RSSB and KTN Review of Horizon 2020 Work Programmes in October , Shift2Rail, the Joint Undertaking backed by the Commission and the rail...
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Held at RSSB, at The Helicon, 1 South Place, London, the Review of Horizon 2020 Work Programmes & Collaboration Opportunities with the Rail Industry was chaired and opened by Martin Brennan, RSSB’s Senior Research Policy Manager.
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RSSB (Rail Safety and Standards Board) and Future Railway (a collaboration between Network Rail and RSSB to support innovation in the delivery of the Rail Technical Strategy) have identified...
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RSSB last week announced brief details of three projects selected to go to the second stage of its Train Operator Competition 2015 (TOC’15), launched in March to help co-fund strategic...
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In response to the Future Railway programme’s April 2014 Rail Operator Competition Challenge (ROCC) - under which RSSB and the Department for Transport offered to fund innovative proposals...
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Ricardo yesterday announced that its research conducted with Artemis Intelligent Power and Bombardier Transportation has confirmed the potential for 10% real-life fuel savings for integrating...
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The Department of Transport, together with the Department of culture media and sport, is conducting a consultation exercise requesting views on improving mobile communications for UK rail...
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Omnicom Engineering , the York-based rail systems company, announced it was awarded the 2015 Future Railway Innovation Award for its proposed RailNavigator product, a low cost advanced...
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A panel of representatives from The Association of Train Operating Companies , Railway Industry Association and Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) has selected three projects to be...
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RSSB and the Department for Transport have, on 17 March, launched the Train Operator Competition 2015 (TOC’15), as part of the Future Railway programme, that will offer £6m to co-fund...
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Today Virgin Trains announced it is replacing traditional seats with exercise bikes, cross trainers and running machines to create the world’s first ever on-board travelling gym on its fleet...
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StaaS is a two-year, £2 million, collaborative innovation project co-funded by Innovate UK and RSSB under the second Accelerating innovation in Rail Enabling the Digital Railway competition, with the goal of creating a new technical, operational and commercial model for future stations.
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When the authoritative account of the development of the smooth-running, modern, customer-friendly rail system comes to be written, the KTN organised consortia building event for the Enhancing...
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nnovate UK has official announced the launch of the enhancing customer experience in rail travel competition , and, overnight, published the competition page on its...
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Future Railway , the collaboration between Network Rail and RSSB set up to deliver the Rail Technical Strategy , has announced that it plans to launch a 100% funded competition in...
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FutureRailway has launched a 100% funded £4.5m competition on Powertrain efficiencies for self-powered Rail Vehicles entitled the “ Power Train Challenge ”. The competition aims to...
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Cisco has issued a challenge to start-ups and SMEs to come up with smart ideas for using the Internet of Everything (IoE) technologies to solve some common issues faced by the rail...
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The European Commission this month announced a call for expressions of interest for new members of the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking. Shift2Rail plans to invest just under €1 billion in...
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RSSB - the Rail Safety and Standards Board - has announced the warding of funding worth £3 million for nine winning proposals for reducing the cost of electrification schemes by avoiding the...
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Last month, we reviewed progress of the winning projects for the Enabling the Digital Railway competition , that started in early 2014. That competition, announced in 2013, was the second...
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In 2013, the Technology Strategy Board and RSSB announced investment of up to £5m in collaborative R&D for the Enabling the Digital Railway competition , designed to encourage the use of...
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Ahead of the competition launch on Monday in Coventry, Innovate UK has released the scope document for the Enhancing Customer Experience in Rail Travel competition, that with the...
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On Monday 2 March, at Coventry University, KTN will host a consortium-building event for potential applicants for the jointly-funded Innovate UK, FutureRailway and RSSB third Accelerating...
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The stock excuse for lateness due to signal failure may about to become just a bad memory as the rail industry works on a system to overcome this all-to-familiar cause of delay on the network. ...
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FutureRailway is currently inviting entries for its COMbined Positioning Alternative Signalling System (COMPASS) competition and has also announced details of a briefing...
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Back in September we summarised the eighteen collaborative R&D projects funded in the first Accelerating Innovation in Rail competition . Ahead of the third competition in this...
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Innovate UK and FutureRailway/RSSB is to open for entries a third Accelerating Innovation in Rail competition offering investment to accelerate innovation in the UK rail industry - this time...
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15 January 2015 - N etwork Rail announced that the first battery-powered train to run on its rail network in more than half a century carried its first passengers this week, an important...
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FutureRailway (set up by the rail industry to accelerate research, development and innovation) earlier this month announced the shortlisted entrants to be awarded funding to develop their...
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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), in collaboration with the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) , supported by Department for Transport (DfT) has announced a...
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As an update to its announcement in January that Network Rail and Bombardier had started work on a prototype battery powered train , Network Rail today stated that it’s completed the...
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Officially launched last month , the Rail Supply Group is to be kept on track with £500,000 of government investment to help it win new business, create jobs and generate economic growth. ...
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On 16 June the European Council adopted a regulation setting up a public-private partnership called Shift2Rail joint undertaking , to manage a research and innovation programme to support the...
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The Department of Transport has today released Network Rail’s implementation strategy for complying with European regulations to promote a single market in the rail sector in relation to...
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FutureRailway - a collaboration between Network Rail and the Rail Safety and Standards Board - on 1 April launched a competition designed to help rail operators improve their...
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The Technology Transfer Programme of the European Space Agency last week reported on a spin-off application of advanced flow meters developed for measuring the heat of atmosphere re-entry for...
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The TSB (Technology Strategy Board) led SBRI (Small Business Research Initiative) has launched a competition under the banner of UK Tram designed to seek out innovation ideas for light rail,...
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Last Friday (17 January 2014) Stephen Hammond MP announced that the Department for Transport (DfT) had shortlisted - or pre-qualified - its chosen bidders for the InterCity East Coast franchise...
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The European Commission yesterday adopted a proposal to the European Parliament and Ministers to approve a new public-private partnership named Shift2Rail , that will invest just under €1...
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EIT has announced the first four of eight finalists have been awarded investment of around £2.5m as a result of entering EIT's Radical Train competition . The Enabling Innovation Team...
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The European Space Agency (ESA) - supported by Enabling Innovation Team of the UK rail industry (EIT) , the Satellite Applications Catapult Centre and the Technology Strategy Board ...
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A resource for cyclists has been added to the existing National Rail Enquiries app , supported by funding from the RISE (Rail Innovation Support Engine) scheme. RISE offers...
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Remote condition monitoring (RCM) is, according to The Enabling Innovation Team (EIT), widely used on both trains and rail infrastructure, for example through Network Rail's Intelligent...
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A National Rolling Stock Academy to act as a national ‘hub’ with regional ‘spokes’ located at other train care facilities around the country has been announced. The Northampton based...
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It's noticeable that many commuters these days make good use of their time on the train by interacting with digital devices - some working, many catching up with the previous night's...
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Nomad Digital , a Newcastle upon Tyne-based provider of wireless connectivity solutions for the transportation sector, has been chosen to install the new Eurostar e320 fleet with on-board...
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The rail industry’s Enabling Innovation team held a Final Live Event last Tuesday, on London's South Bank, to announce winners of a £1 million prize-bearing competition for innovative...
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Network Rail's Intelligent Infrastructure programme, which incorporates an Intelligent Infrastructure Management (IIM) system for remote conditioning monitoring from Thales UK, was last month...
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Network Rail said it and its partners have begun work to create a prototype battery-powered train . It has highlighted in two press releases its project to develop a battery powered train , as...
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Deutsche Bahn AG, Alstom Deutschland AG, the State of Bavaria and DAL Deutsche Anlagen Leasing have announced the development of the ERI (Eco Rail Innovation) H3 hybrid shunting locomotive...
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The design, engineering and project management consultancy Atkins and Heriot-Watt University are to set up a centre of excellence for High Speed Rail, based at the university's Edinburgh...
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On Friday (28 June 2013) Network Rail published its Technical Strategy - detailing its views on R&D opportunities that arise from acheiving its Strategic Business Plan for the...
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The Office of Rail Regulation (ORR), in publishing its assessment of Network Rail’s performance in 2012-13 , highlighted the continued growth of Britain’s railways over the past...
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Eurotunnel last Thursday announced a new system of incentives to financially support railway operators launching new intermodal rail freight services through the Channel Tunnel . ETICA...
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Network Rail Consulting (a subsidiary of Network Rail) and rail industry body RSSB announced yesterday a joint agreement to secure business overseas . The expected benefit for RSSB is new...
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According to research by the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) released today young people, the over-60s and passengers with disabilities are helping to increase rail’s share of...
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Transport Minister Rt Hon Patrick McLoughlin MP last week visited the University of Huddersfield to launch The Institute of Railway Research (IRR) - a research unit to be active in the safety...
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Loco2 and The Guardian have announced a partnership branded ' Guardian Trains ', offering a convenient way to search and book train journeys across Europe. The...
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Featuring an interview with Government Minister Ed Vaizy The Financial Times reported last Friday that DfT [Department for Transport] is to take further measures to address data connectivity of...
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Britain's railways are the most improved in Europe , according to a comparison study by the European Commission of the rail networks in all 27 EU countries. The report - a COMMISSION...
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With the commercial attractiveness of natural gas in North America, due to increased effective reserves and reduced cost of production, Canadian National is investigating the practical...
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Spanish rail travellers in over 400 stations can know exactly when to expect their train thanks to a new system, adapting space technology developed by Madrid-based Deimos Space . Since...
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Kaelus , part of Smiths Interconnect , has launched a filter product for GSM-R applications designed to solve the potential problem of public mobile signals interfering with...
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Amadeus, a provider of IT solutions to the tourism and travel industry, has issued a report The Rail Journey to 2020: Facts, figures and trends (and trendy infographic) that predicts...
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Network Rail today set out a plan to deliver government priorities for rail and respond to the challenge to provide a better value railway for Britain and help drive economic growth. ...
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As with passenger and freight railways, mining is looking to innovate to decrease costs and increase safety. One route, reported at reuters.com and described on the website of...
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It is interesting to compare Technology Strategy Board's spending across its ‘thematic sectors’, as reported in its Annual Report and Accounts published on 7 August. The transport sector is shown as receiving the third highest amount of total funding and also attracting the highest amount of co-funding the 14 'themes' - behind only Healthcare and Built Environment.
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Apple has announced the premiere of its product for integrating iPhones within car dashboards - in effect rebranding iOS in the Car (the name announced last just June) to CarPlay.
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TransportKTN is helping promote the currently open TSB competition Localised energy systems - a cross-sector approach, which is to invest up to £11m in a programme of collaborative research and development to stimulate innovation in localised energy systems.
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As electric vehicle manufacturers are required to introducing new concepts for driving, and mobility, to the market, a more holistical approach is merging.
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