Key Dates:

• Competition Opens: 9 October 2023
• Competition Closes: 13 December 2023, at 11:00am UK time

What They Are Looking For

1. Feasibility Studies: Projects should focus on optimal data sharing or data exchanging to enhance transport systems.

2. Overcoming Barriers: Your project should address challenges like lack of incentives, lack of data standards, and security risks, among others.

3. Commercial Viability: Must demonstrate how the data sharing or exchange platform will operate economically.

Funding and Project Size

• Duration and Costs: Total project costs must not exceed £250,000. No minimum project cost specified.

Key Criteria

• Transport Sectors: Projects must focus on maritime, rail, automotive, aviation, micromobility, or active travel sectors.

• Data Applications: Your project can explore the sharing or exchanging of data between platforms, vehicles, people, freight, and infrastructure.

Specific Themes

Your project should focus on one or more transport sectors:

• Maritime: Including commercial and leisure vessels.
• Rail: Passenger and freight services are in scope.

• Automotive: All vehicle classes are in scope.
• Aviation: Drones, UAS, advanced air mobility, civil aerospace.
• Micromobility: All micromobility solutions are in scope.
• Active Travel: Including walking, wheelchair use, and cycling.

Research Categories

• Types of Research: Feasibility projects will be funded.

Exclusions

• Projects that subsidise the cost to access data, create databases, or involve hardware development.
• Projects dependent on export performance or domestic inputs usage.

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