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Catapulting growth in 2023 and beyond

In the face of many challenges – changing customer desires, cost pressures, supply chain disruption, expected regulatory changes and fierce competition – UK innovation is on the rise. This article showcases how Catapults helped to deliver great results for business and industry in 2023; it summarises our predictions for technology-driven advances in 2024 and the years ahead.

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Eight innovators selected for Bristol Temple Meads testbed

Connected Places Catapult, the UK’s Innovation Accelerator for cities, transport and place leadership has today announced the latest organisations to join the Station Innovation Zone programme. Eight organisations with concepts aimed at enhancing accessibility, sustainability, personal safety, and overall passenger experience have been selected to develop proposals to trial their innovations at Bristol Temple Meads. In the coming months, Connected Places Catapult will support the selected organisations as they progress through the Station Innovation Zone —a multi-million-pound programme hosted at Bristol Temple Meads in partnership with Network Rail. Early next year, three will be selected to move forward to live trials with their ideas being tested at the station.

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Eight innovators selected for Bristol Temple Meads testbed

Connected Places Catapult, the UK’s Innovation Accelerator for cities, transport and place leadership has today announced the latest organisations to join the Station Innovation Zone programme. Eight organisations with concepts aimed at enhancing accessibility, sustainability, personal safety, and overall passenger experience have been selected to develop proposals to trial their innovations at Bristol Temple Meads. In the coming months, Connected Places Catapult will support the selected organisations as they progress through the Station Innovation Zone —a multi-million-pound programme hosted at Bristol Temple Meads in partnership with Network Rail. Early next year, three will be selected to move forward to live trials with their ideas being tested at the station.

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Entopy invited to trial its digital twin technology at Glasgow airport

Technology firm Entopy has been selected to trial its AI-enabled digital twin at Glasgow Airport to help the operator better manage the site’s infrastructure and operations in the face of an expected increase in passenger movements at the site. The digital twin platform is designed to identify congestion pinch points on the surrounding roads, in car parks, in the airport terminal and at the gates; providing a future-focused means of strategic decision-making to ease the flow of people.

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