Colleagues,
A message from Jon Maybury at the DTI
Glenn
>A radical new approach to funding highly innovative and wide ranging
>research into key long term transport issues was announced yesterday by
>Minister for Transport Stephen Ladyman and Lord Sainsbury, DTI Minister
>for Science and Innovation, at the Intelligent Transport Systems World
>Congress in London.
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>The new approach to research is expected to result in far greater advances
>than simply awarding funding to a single organisation. It will allow a
>small number of consortia with wide ranging expertise to work in
>collaboration to tackle some of the major transport challenges we face
>over the next decade.
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>The Department for Transport, Department of Trade and Industry and the
>Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council will jointly provide
>£9 million of funding, with a further £3 million expected from industry
>itself.
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>The Future Intelligent Transport Systems initiative is intended to
>stimulate new ideas, concepts, products or services that will:
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> * Further improve safety on our roads by reducing collisions,
> casualties and deaths;
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> * Result in better, more reliable, accessible and safer public
> transport services;
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> * Lead to even greater efficiency in the road freight industry;
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> * Improve road network management; and,
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> * Provide better travel information, allowing travellers to make
> informed choices on how and when to travel.
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>Further details can be found within the call for Expressions of Interest
>to participate, which can be found at:
><http://www.dti.gov.uk/innovation/tech-priorities-uk/innovation_platforms/page33795.html>http://www.dti.gov.uk/innovation/tech-priorities-uk/innovation_platforms/page33795.html
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>Jon Maybury
>Innovation Platform Manager
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>Intelligent Transport Systems
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>Department of Trade and Industry
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>Office of Science and Innovation (OSI)
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>151 Buckingham Palace Road,
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>London SW1W 9SS
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>Tel:
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>0207 215 1196
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>Mobile:
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Professor Glenn Lyons
Centre for Transport & Society
Faculty of the Built Environment
University of the West of England
Frenchay Campus
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BRISTOL BS16 1QY
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