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In a time of seemingly relentless austerity, some have suggested that the Government’s Transport Systems Catapult is a luxury that the nation cannot afford but, with the global market for intelligent mobility technology estimated by some sources to be worth a staggering £900bn, the Catapult is happy to fight its corner and justify its existence, not to mention the need for further Government funding.

Rik Thomas
21 August 2015
On-street trials of driverless vehicles are due to start next month... right outside the Transport Catapult’s front door in Milton Keynes!
On-street trials of driverless vehicles are due to start next month... right outside the Transport Catapult’s front door in Milton Keynes!
The Catapult’s Innovation Centre is designed to provide start-up companies and suchlike with access to technology that they could not possibly afford to buy on their own
The Catapult’s Innovation Centre is designed to provide start-up companies and suchlike with access to technology that they could not possibly afford to buy on their own

 

The publicity surrounding the Transport Systems Catapult (TSC), which was launched in 2013, has by no means all been good. Most prominently, perhaps, there have been a large number of personnel changes at the top end of the organisation, as regular readers of LTT’s ‘People’ column will have noted, leading some commentators to suggest that the TSC is a body that is still trying to find out what it is actually meant to be for. Other criticism that has been levelled at the TSC is...

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