From space and spin-offs to virtual people at UK Pavilion

First published at ITS World Congress - October 22, 2019

Catapult’s Stephen Lynn

A plethora of pioneering technology start-ups and forward-thinking universities and councils are presenting their products and services at the joint UK Pavilion hosted by the Connected Places Catapult.

One exhibitor in the pavilion is self-driving shuttle manufacturer Aurrigo, which has vehicles deployed in Singapore and elsewhere.

Another is Basemap whose software analyses Big Transport Data for the UK’s Department for Transport, local authorities and transport consultancies to help understand historic traffic flows and to model accessibility using public transport.

Also, in the UK Pavilion is the Satellite Applications Catapult, an independent not-for-profit research, innovation and technology company created to help organisations make use of, and benefit from, satellite technologies.

With the UK commanding a 7% share of the global space market and has ambitions to increase this to 10% as the global market swells to a predicted value of £400 billion by 2030.

British universities are also well represented on the Pavilion.

Coventry University is highlighting the work done by its Institute of Future Transport and Cities which has more than 100 staff, while Cranfield University is one of the very few such institutions in the world to have its own airport and a “living laboratory” to test transformative technologies and approaches.

Alongside is Oxford University spinoff Latent Logic, which uses artificial intelligence derived from real situations to create “smart actors” programmed to act like humans, who can “populate” simulations used to test autonomous vehicles.

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