Digital innovation funding to solve transport challenges

Funding opportunity to develop use cases to revolutionise the United Kingdom's transport system using digital twins.

Connected Places Catapult are looking for innovative SMEs to identify transport system challenges and propose solutions using ‘digital shadows’ and/or ‘digital twins’ for enhanced decision-making. These use cases will feed into and support the development of a vision and roadmap for digital twins.

Use cases should aim to improve transport for the user, reduce environmental impacts of transport, or support levelling-up of the UK economy.

Up to 10 SMEs will each be granted up to £6,000 to develop digital twin use cases that help to solve UK transport decarbonisation challenges.

Use cases should be focused around at least one of the following three themes:

• improving transport for the user
• reducing the environmental impact of transport and moving towards decarbonisation
• levelling up the UK economy

Use cases should also apply to one or more of the following transport modes:

• aviation
• maritime
• rail
• road

First published 21 December 2022