Transport Innovation

Five innovative collaborative projects had emerged from the Future Intelligent Transport System’s (FITS) sandpit and the final hurdle was for a subset of the teams to present to a “dragon’s den”, made up primarily of industrial assessors, some of whom who had acted as mentors at the sandpit and some of whom were fresh to the initiative. The presentations were spread over two days and combined with the usual panel activity, combining the results from the peer reviewers and coming up with a final rank order. The panel had to make some difficult decisions, comparing “apples with oranges” and recommending where the three Government stakeholders should spend their money.