The Transport Systems Catapult (TSC)Andrew Traill, Principal Consultant – Freight and Logistics

British Parking Forum: 7th August 2015

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What is the Transport Systems Catapult?

Established by Innovate UK

• Catapults were the brainchild of Vince Cable , former Secretary of State, BIS

• Launched June 2014

‒An elite technology and innovation centre

– to promote Intelligent Mobility (IM)

– help UK businesses create products and services that meet the needs of the world's transport systems

– increase jobs in the UK in the Intelligent Mobility (IM) market place

Huge Growth Potential for Intelligent Mobility

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Customer experience - £500bn

Autonomous systems - £81bn

Environment & resilience - £94bn

Modelling & visualisation - £15bn

Information Exploitation- £98bn

TSC Target 10% of…

UK approach to Innovation

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Precision Medicine

Bridging the gap - developing a translational infrastructure

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Invest in research excellence

Target areas of UK industrial potential

Develop a translational infrastructure

Intelligent Mobility:

….the efficient and cost-effective

movement of goods and people

Imagine a user-sensitive, multimodal, reliable, self healing, value for money, wholly transparent, mobility service, where time in transit is useful, valuable, informative and enjoyable …..

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Business Units

• Automated Transport Systems

• Customer Experience

• Modelling & Visualisation

• Information Exploitation

Automated Transport Systems

What we do

Broad Experience of ATS Team Members

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Industries:

• Automotive, Aerospace, Marine, Mining / Forestry, Defence, Transport service

• Transport planning, Traffic modelling, Vehicle testing, Wireless telecoms

• University, Research organisation, OEM, supplier, consultancy.

Activities:

• Market analysis, Technology roadmaps, Feasibility studies, Business development, IP management & commercialisation

• Technology transfer, Brokering between universities and industry across domains, Collaborative projects

• Research, development & engineering – From research to production

‒ Modelling & simulation

‒ Transport and traffic planning.

Broad Experience of ATS Team Members

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Heathrow Ultra PRT SARTRE car & truck platooning

Lagos Bus Rapid TransitTransportation service planning

ASTRAEA - UAV certificationin civil airspace

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Automated Technology Roadmap – Road vehicle Deployment

Level 1Driver AssistanceSystem control of speedor steering.

2010 2015 2020 2025 2030

Fully Automated ParkingWith / without person in driver’s seat (remote park)

Low-speed urban automated vehiclesE.g. LUTZ, Google pod, Development of CityMobil2

Highway platooningAutomated, cooperative driving in platoons

Highway AutopilotAutomated driving on motorway / specific routes

TJA (Traffic Jam Assist)Speed & steering control on motorway, low speed, including driver monitoring

LKA (Lane Keeping Assist)Steering control, following lane markings

Automated Technology Roadmap – Passenger Road Vehicle Deployment

2010 2015 2020 2025 2030

Full automation

Level 2Partial AutomationSystem control of speedand steering.Continuous human monitoring.

Level 3Conditional AutomationNo continuous human monitoring. Human Intervention when requested.

Level 4 - High AutomationNo human Intervention required.

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ACC (Adaptive Cruise Control): Speed control, adapted to traffic speedAEB (Autonomous Emergency Braking): Braking for collision mitigation, low speed

Parking AssistSteering and/or accelerator control, parallel & perpendicular parking

V2X (Vehicle-Vehicle, Vehicle-Infrastructure) based applicationsConnected braking, blind spot warning, green wave

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What still needs to be done …

Customer Experience

What we do

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Customer Experience

Customer/ Mobility ExperienceA centre of excellence that helps UK industry deliver the value of Intelligent Mobility through a focus on human ‘mobility experiences’. Achieving this requires a departure from ‘business-as-usual’ mindsets – to develop progressive perspectives on the net value of experiences in mobility systems as a whole.

Experience and Service DesignIn order to unlock the full potential of mobility systems, and make them truly ‘intelligent’, UK industry will have to adopt a Human-Centred Design approach and use Human Factors, Systems Integration and Design Thinking.

Business Strategy and DesignHelping UK industry define where to play and how to win by using emerging technologies to enable new business models that unlock the value of intelligent mobility.

Systems InnovationBuilding alliances and collaborating with partners to innovate whole systems at scale and speed.

Modelling & Visualisation

What we do

Modelling and Visualisation

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The modelling, simulation and visualisation programme is developing platforms with the tools

to demonstrate the value of intelligent mobility within the context of integrated

transport and its wider environment. It will:

• have the capability to create, connect and analyse innovative solutions before

deployment using state of the art modelling, simulation and visualisation;

• provide new insights in a collaborative environment;

• enable the development and valuation of new products and services;

• help to optimise solutions, shape thinking and support policy and operational

decisions for a wide range of transport related issues.

Provide these capabilities externally and internally to deliver key project and programme

objectives.

Modelling challenges and opportunities

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CHALLENGES

Limitations of legacy modelling approaches and data availability

Multi-modal (and multi-model) integration required to;

• Examine end-to-end Journeys

• Work with data scientists/systems engineers (Information Exploitation Business unit) to enable re-usability of data and modelling investments

Engagement of multiple stakeholders with different interests/requirements

Examining (and valuing) the effects of interventions / innovations

OPPORTUNITIES

Big data… Open data…

Agent-based and activity-based models with synthetic populations

Visualisation and compute capabilities of Defence and Gaming sectors

Developments in BIM and GIS

Internet-of-Things and machine-to-machine sensing and actuation

Personalised information and quantified self

Etc.

Phase I demonstrators

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Visualisation

To demonstrate the value of intelligent mobility for integrated transport and its wider environment; Providing capability

to collaboratively create, connect and analyse innovative solutions, supporting policy and operational decisions using

modelling, simulation and visualisation.

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2019

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Command & Control synthetic environment

Data Clearing Centre

Visualisation suite

Virtual Reality demonstrators

Public consultation tools

Modelling Intelligent Mobility

Serious Games

Synthetic populations

Capability groups

M&V Translational Infrastructure - Capability Roadmap

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2018

2020

Integration

Data and design

Modelling

Citizen-led analysis

Transport Modelling Reference Architecture

Modelling Resilience

Modelling for Operations

Intelligent Mobility Platform – Urban Labs / Testbeds for demonstration and experimentation

Modelling Autonomous Vehicles and Infrastructure Systems

Data-driven models and Internet of Things

Modelling Externalities – Air Quality and Safety

V1.0 15/01/2015

Information Exploitation

Why is this important?

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Transport market size and data value

Smart infrastructure - £64bn

Open data - £19bn

Global transport IX market size

Data integration & mgt - £7bn

Customer experience - £500bn

Data analytics - £8bn

Autonomous systems - £81bn

Environment & resilience - £94bn

Modelling & visualisation - £15bn

Intelligent Mobility Market

£900bn£98bn

Enabling:

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Information Exploitation: Driving towards IM

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2015 20252018 2022Near-term Mid-term Long-term

Using historic public transport data to inform services planning and demand across transport networks

Consolidation of logistics operations across modes, providers and networks

Demand responsive bus services

Demand responsive pricing across all transport services and networks (including roads)

Transport provided as a consumer service, not a journey service in its own right

National real-time capacity indicators for all modes of public transport and roads with historic data for predictive analytics

Contactless/mobile ticketing for all UK transport services and operations

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Personalised, context-specific, multi-modal journey planning with real-time guidance and updates

National real-time parking space information service integrated with route guidance and payments

Establish Transport Data Sandpit (internal)

Publicize and maintain a ‘catalogue of catalogues’ for open data in transport

Deliver Departure Information Planning for selected UK airports

The flow of information shared across airports increased - runway efficiency, queuing management, and airspace structure and route network improved.

Work with public sector and industry to open up, maintain and exploit transport datasets

Open Transport Data Lab

Work with government, industry and academia to influence adoption of open data standards and governance across different modes

Work with government, industry and academia to tackle cyber security and privacy issues

Transport Data Store

Driverless vehicles using dedicated routes or tracks in urban areas

New airborne freight transportation (e.g. airships/drones)

Autonomous vehicles running on-street alongside non-autonomous ones

Future which IX can contribute to

Project/initiatives currently in delivery or

being developed

Future which other BUs can contribute to

Work with public sector and industry to explore new data-driven business models

Ubiquitous wireless sensors enable real-time decision making for smart infrastructure (e.g. highway)

Project/initiatives to be scoped / commenced

Projects across freight, passenger journey intelligence, smart ticketing for cities, e-barriers etc

Co-ordination of ship arrivals with hinterland logistics

Port resilience analysis and modelling

Focus Areas

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Aviation Sector

Integrated Logistics and Supply Chain

Advanced Passenger Information

Asset Management and Resilience

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Collaboration example

Improve the traveller

experience

Minimise the impact of disruption

Provide personalised information

Improve the performance

of the network

Provide tools to integrate the quality of life

Provide seamless

freight

• Multi-modal door-to-door journey planning platform that uses live movement data, weather, passenger sentiment and events to predict delays and comfort of any journey

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Autonomous vehicles

• Demonstrator – Low-Carbon Urban Transport Zone (LUTZ):

• Demonstrating on a large scale the potential of autonomous vehicles, cloud-enabled mobility and transport on-demand services

‒ £50 million programme

‒ Milton Keynes as the test-bed

‒ TSC £5 m + EU £5 m: to deliver key projects within the programme and help develop and implement standards and protocols for autonomous vehicles.

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Departure Planning Information (DPI)

• Real-time flight departure technology at airports across the UK

• In cooperation with the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and the National Air Traffic Services (NATS), integrated with the European flight information network EuroControl

• TSC contribution: £750,000 for building the project team

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The Manchester table

• A touch-screen controlled simulator

• an interactive display based upon the transport systemof central Manchester

• Using historical data from 2010, as well as projected figures for the years 2020 and 2030

• the table allows users to increase the level of interconnectedness between the different modes of transport, as well as introducing individual "interventions" (such as road closures, bad weather or the introduction of Park and Ride schemes)

• The concept will be developed for other modelling and visualization initiatives within projects

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Sentiment mapping

• Examining how social media and crowd-based sentiment mapping applications can be used to the mutual benefit of transport providers and transport users.

• Monitoring the moods of public transport passengers in real time

• Identifying blackspots before incidents happen

• Exploring the financial and social rewards that can be unlocked by embracing these popular new technologies.

A demonstration version of the project can already be seen in the form of a giant live data projection currently on display in our Imovation Centre, with a series of "real world" pilot schemes 

Post-lunch workshop

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The challenge…

How do we  encourage innovation and

investment in new and existing technology

to improve the delivery and management of

parking services?

Thank You