Transport Innovation

The July meeting of the Technology Strategy Board in the Institute of Civil Engineering included an agenda item for the two pilot Innovation Platforms: ITSS and Network Security.  We both presented Action Plans to usefully spend the initial £10M allocation of Technology Programme funding. The plan for the ITSS was to split the funding between activity targetted at the medium and long-term. The Board was pleased that their initial allocation off £10M had been leveraged by a factor of over 3 from other stakeholders/contributors to the Innovation Platform. At that time, £31.5M of Government programmes had been agreed that they would be coordinated by the Innovation Platform (and the totaliser kept rising …)

£3M was allocated to support what later became the Future Intelligent Transport Systems (FITS) Initiative – the longer-term. £7M was allocated to support telematics and road pricing, working in parallel with DfT’s Time Distance Place (TDP) Road Pricing Demonstrations project and SEEDA’s ITS call. The visual presentation in the form of a roadmap helped to support this conclusion.