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UK government transport innovation grants open for new bids

The UK government has announced a US$3 million (£2.5 million) package of transport innovation grants for companies, individuals and academics to make travelling safer, quicker and more reliable. These grants include 33 Transport Technology Research Innovation Grants (T-TRIG) worth a total of US$1 million (£833,000) awarded to early-stage science, engineering or technology innovations as well as a further round of competition for T-TRIG awards worth approximately US$834,000 (£700,000). A new Innovation Ch
December 7, 2016 Read time: 2 mins
The UK government has announced a US$3 million (£2.5 million) package of transport innovation grants for companies, individuals and academics to make travelling safer, quicker and more reliable.

These grants include 33 Transport Technology Research Innovation Grants (T-TRIG) worth a total of US$1 million (£833,000) awarded to early-stage science, engineering or technology innovations as well as a further round of competition for T-TRIG awards worth approximately US$834,000 (£700,000). A new Innovation Challenge Fund worth approximately US$1.3 million (£1 million) is also available to invest in development of promising technology ideas.

Taken together, these schemes aim to reduce barriers to innovation and advance technology in transport.

T-TRIG covers all forms of transport and helps develop high quality ideas from concept to prototype stage.

The winners of the July 2016 T-TRIG scheme have each been awarded around US$32,000 (£25,000) each for projects including development of thermally conductive concrete slabs so that train station platforms can automatically de-ice and a smart country road reporting system, which uses sensors to collect real-time data to monitor the environment, road temperature and traffic flow.

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