DRIVINGINTELLIGENTMOBILITY

Academic EngagementJanuary-June 2018

INTRODUCTIONThe whole is greater than the sum of the parts

We live in a world where there are constant changes in society, economy and technology. Since the establishment of the Catapult Network in 2014 it became even more important to have a neutral, trusted and independent entity in the ecosystem who can connect sector specific academics, businesses and policy makers.

The only way to achieve targets like increasing the R&D investment from 1.7% to 2.4% of GDP or launch a successful national framework for knowledge exchange cannot happen in silos. Demonstrating never

seen level of collaboration and creating multi-sectoral, multi-disciplinary teams will be crucial to tackle the new challenges.

The Transport Systems Catapult is here to enable these critical symbiotic relationships not just by linking them but creating a shared language, align the missions and visions and demonstrate the value of diversity.

In this update you will learn about some of the ways we have been achieving this through Deep Academic Alliances, new training initiatives, placements and Internships.

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Why tackling barriers to university and commercial collaboration through academic engagement will increase spin-outs and help the UK lead in Intelligent Mobility.

One of the Transport Systems Catapult’s (TSC) five strategic areas of focus, Academic Engagement, is critical in enabling the UK to lead Intelligent Mobility (IM) research and innovation.

BEATA SZOBOSZLAI – Head of Academic Engagement

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Why focus on academic engagement?

ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT TEAM

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Top row from left to right: Antony Charnley (Bids), Charles Carter (Systems Engineering), Zeyn Saigol (Systems Engineering), Aditya Thirunavukkarasu (Systems Engineering).

Bottom row from left to right: Patrizia Franco (Modelling), Andrea Mancini (Secretariat), Veenali Shah (Communications), Beata Szoboszlai (Strategy), Julia Brady (Lead Delivery), Lovisa Eriksson (Insight), Alan Nettleton (Systems Engineering)

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ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMME

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Deep Academic Alliances (DAAs) are key partnerships between universities, industry and the TSC that align research, commercialisation and strategies. They play an important role in maximising the potential of SME networks and creating a strong group of universities who can lobby for funding for IM to develop capabilities with industry for the benefit of UK PLC.

As part of the DAA programme, the TSC is collaborating with the University of Nottingham (UoN) to establish the Institute of Future Transport, Intelligent Mobility and Cities. Over 60 academics working across 12 university departments have been engaged through internal workshops and are committed to support the vision of the new Institute.

On 18th April, UoN and the TSC ran an Industry deep dive session on Transport Mobility and Cities to create a Challenge Roadmap, with input

from 15 stakeholders (SMEs, corporates, local government), informing barriers to innovation and skills and starting to inform the Institute propositions. All those who attended confirmed the value in such events and expressed interest and commitment to support future activities. Innovate UK’s regional manager, Julian Bowery attended the stakeholder engagement event and expressed enthusiasm at bringing such a collection of stakeholders together to address these challenges.

Deep Academic Alliances

University of Nottingham (UoN): Institute of Future Transport, Intelligent Mobility and Cities

The TSC has forged a broad-reaching academic engagement activity plan. This incorporates initiatives such as the Deep Academic Alliances, the Academic Network for Intelligent Mobility as well as promoting and facilitating co-operation across bids, funding applications, placements and secondments.

TSC and the University of Nottingham will be launching the Institute of Future Transport, Intelligent Mobility and Cities on 20th November 2018.

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Academic Network for Intelligent Mobility (ANIM) brings together entrepreneurial academics and researchers across the UK university base and aims to create an environment that will make the UK a world leader in Intelligent Mobility.

Having started in early 2018, it currently has 154 members from 25 universities.

ANIM gives individual academics, universities, businesses and other stakeholders access to a wide breadth of skills, knowledge and contacts across the Intelligent Mobility sector.

The members’ of our network interests and capabilities will be captured in the national Capability Map for Intelligent Mobility.

We will also provide our members with details about forthcoming opportunities and events relevant to their research interests and focus areas. If you are interested in joining or finding out more, please contact us: academia@ts.catapult.org.uk

In order to help address the challenge of ensuring the UK workforce has the skills needed by the emerging CAV market, the TSC with the support of CCAV, initiated the development of a Massive Open Online Course, (MOOC) in close collaboration with the Institution of Engineering Technology.

The TSC cemented partnership with the IET, six academics – from Cranfield, De Montfort, Nottingham, Nottingham Trent and Aberdeen –

and six industry partners – Jaguar Land Rover, Propelmee, Conigital, Marmalade Sky, Idiada and Serious Games International. Content for the online course is currently in the process of development. A range of individuals from partner universities, CCAV, DfT and JLR volunteered to join the pilot group, with initial testing scheduled for July and the aim of launching the online programme later in the year.

Academic Network for Intelligent Mobility

The Connected Autonomous Vehicles Online Programme

EDUCATION

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PraxisAuril Spring Conference 2018

Beata Szoboszlai, Head of Academic Engagement was talking about the new Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF) at the PraxisAuril Conference with Hamish McAlpine (Head of KE Data and Evidence, Research England) and Sarah Duckering (Director of Research and Innovation Services, University of Portsmouth).

Beata spoke of the need for metrics to reflect and drive appropriate behaviours. The Catapults are tasked with driving innovation through collaboration. Beata described the linkages between KEF metrics and those used by the Catapult to assess its own performance, including measures used for collaboration between Universities and companies. She also stressed that an emphasis on metrics must not drive out innovation and new ways of achieving collaborative goals. Behaviours such as trust and motivation were important parameters that were not easily described by metrics.

Lovisa Eriksson and Stephen McConnachie, from the TSC Insight Team, initiated, co-organised and facilitated this workshop in collaboration with UCL in April. This event explored what different social science disciplines can offer to the development and roll-out of autonomous vehicles (AVs). The event brought together around 30

social scientists from 16 academic institutions from a range of social science disciplines to discuss priorities for involving the social sciences in the move towards autonomous transport systems. For the morning session, policymakers and representatives from industry, funding bodies and publishers were also present to discuss their needs and priorities.

A wide range of opportunities, challenges and knowledge gaps relating to autonomous vehicles were discussed, and specific topics included those of governance, public acceptance, and sharing. It was evident from the discussions that the social science community has an important role to play in ensuring successful and responsible AV innovation, and that further explorations into the social and behavioural dimensions of AVs are warranted.

It is critical for the TSC to work alongside Research England and support the establishment of the new Knowledge Exchange Framework. This will enable universities and the Catapult Network to create symbiotic relationships and help UK to become world leading in research and innovation.

Beata Szoboszlai, Head of Academic Engagement, Transport Systems Catapult

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Social Science and Autonomous Vehicles Workshop with University College London

Stimulating knowledge exchange through academic engagement

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CASE STUDY

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Stimulating knowledge exchange through academic engagement

ABOUTTHEPROJECTInMay2017,theUniversityofSheffieldandTSCdecidedtofocusonblockchainandtooptimiseitspotentialimpact,theUniversityformedanewmulti-disciplinaryacademiccollaborationandcommissionedalocalSME,PalfreymanVentures,withexperienceofcommercialblockchainprojects.PROJECTHIGHLIGHTS

TheSheffieldteamledbyProf.LennyKohworkedinclosecollaborationwithCharlesCarterandSomMukherjeefromtheTSC.

AnexploratoryworkshopwasheldattheTSCinMay2017,drawingtogetherrepresentativesfromindustry,academiaandpublicbodies.Theworkshopscopedoutthepotentialforblockchainintransport,highlightingthetechnology’spotentialtoaddresskeyissuesinIntelligentMobilitysuchasdecentralisedMaaS,trustinthesupplychainandlogistics,anddatasharing.

Thisisagreatinitiative,andisproducingmultipleoutputsandopportunitieswithhighimpact.WithouttheCatapultprovidingafocuspoint,andbeingourpartners,wewouldnothavebeenabletogeneratesomuchmomentumsoquickly.Prof.LennyKoh,DirectorAdvancedResourceEfficiencyCentre(AREC)

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CASESTUDY

CollaborationinBlockchainforTransport

OUTPUTS

Thepotentialhighlightedintheworkshop,kick-startedtheuniversity’sBlockchainactivity,helpingitdevelopcloserrelationshipswithlocalSMEsPalfreymanVentures,GospelandDovu.Thisresultedinthedecisiontoproduceanational-levelpositionpaperonBlockchainwiththeTSC.

TheSheffieldteamarejointauthorsofthereport,havingundertakenprimaryresearchincludingindustryinterviews,estimatedmarketsize,writtenchapters,advisedoncyber-securityaspects,andreviewedthereport.

ThepaperwaslaunchedattheTSCinSpring2018,followingamajorconferenceevent“Blockchain:DisruptioninTransport”.

CASE STUDY

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PLACEMENTS PROGRAMMETheTSC is providing coaching, mentoring and inspiration for PhD, MSc students and also for researchers and academics in Intelligent Mobility to enable the research base to get insight into challenges and problems the industry is facing. We run open calls based on opportunities scoped by our excellent colleagues in the TSC and our partners and disseminate it through the Academic Network for Intelligent Mobility. Sign up to get involved!

We are proud to work with:

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Researchers in Residence (RiR) in collaboration with Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)The main aim of the RiR Programme is to help create synergies between universities and the Catapults. EPSRC funds the development of new collaborations through research visits/residencies for university academics (and other eligible research organisations) to spend time embedded within the Catapult teams. As such, the Catapults have been awarded vouchers (assigned to the Catapults but paid directly to universities or other research organisations) to support a range of activities to accelerate the impact of Research Council funded research and expand the capabilities of their centre.

PROF ZAILI YANG RESEARCH TOPIC: Prioritising Vehicle Cleanliness for better air quality Professor of Maritime Transport and Co-Director of Liverpool Logistics, Offshore and Marine Research Institute Maritime and Mechanical Engineering at the Liverpool John MOORES University. Prof. Yang’s research interests are analysis and modelling of safety, resilience and sustainability of transport networks, particularly maritime and logistics systems. Prof. Yang joined the TSC through the RIR shared with Future Cities Catapult in February 2018.

DR MAURO VALLATI RESEARCH TOPIC: AI for Maximising the Exploitation of Urban Networks via Personalised AVs Route GenerationDr Vallati is a senior lecturer of the School of Computing and Engineering of the University of Huddersfield. His research interests include automated plan generation, domain modeling, knowledge engineering, machine learning, and augmentation. Dr Vallati joined the TSC in May 2018.

DR MILS HILLS RESEARCH TOPIC: Securing IM – Towards Real Time Interventions and a Resilient Cyber Culture Associate Professor (Business) at Northampton University, Department International Strategy & Business. Dr Hills joined the TSC in April 2018 and is working with Stephen McConnachie and Ecaterina McCormick.

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SUMMER INTERNSHIPSMain aim of the internships is to offer students the opportunity of a working experience in a Research and Technology organisation, operating in the Intelligent Mobility, and nurture an interest in this sector in the future.

We are proud to work with:

ANUSHREE JAIN – MSc Student, UCL

TOPIC OF THE INTERNSHIP: Understanding factors affecting

travellers’ behaviour and mode choice in a multimodal

transport system

We have been joined by two students, Mohab Ismail and Ermanno El Attrache, from Cranfield School of Management on a three month internship. Both will be working within the Technology Team looking for opportunities to put the theoretical knowledge gained during their MSc in Management into practice. Specifically they will be exploring how organisations conduct horizon scanning activities and how these methodologies might be applied to the Intelligent Mobility landscape.

WEN XU – PhD Student,

Cardiff University

TOPIC OF THE INTERNSHIP: Modelling end-to-end

user journeys using Agent Based Modelling

RYAN LEE – MSc student ,

University of Westminster

TOPIC OF THE INTERNSHIP: Establish the framework for a National Transport

Data Body

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MOHAB ISMAIL ERMANNO EL ATTRACHE

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EVENTS AND ACTIVITIESEvents, Activities Date

Application period for the Researchers in Residence Award Closes on 10th September

First stage application to the Business Fellow Network Closes on 30th September

Nomination for the Intelligent Mobility Award Closes on 30th September

Transport Café on the Road at University of Leeds 9th October 2018

Transport Café on the Road at University of Nottingham 20th November 2018

Launch of the Institute of Future Transport, Intelligent Mobility and Cities at University of Nottingham 20th November 2018

Launch of Programme for Intelligent Mobility Excellence (PrIME) at University of Leeds Early 2019

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