{"id":54323,"date":"2015-02-25T14:17:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T14:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7860e497dc6709c674ad53bde712cf55"},"modified":"2015-02-25T14:17:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T14:17:34","slug":"news-story-improving-rail-for-customers-6-million-for-digital-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=54323","title":{"rendered":"News story: Improving rail for customers: \u00a36 million for digital innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovate UK and the FutureRailway programme are to invest up to \u00a36 million to support  business innovation in digital technologies that improve the customer experience in UK and international rail markets.<\/p>\n<p>The rail industry\u2019s \u2018Rail Technical Strategy\u2019, a 30-year vision of technology requirements, prioritises improvements in use of data and information and their translation into systems and services that cut cost, improve operations and benefit customers. <\/p>\n<p>Digital technology offers clear business opportunities across a global rail market worth around \u00a3150 billion a year.<\/p>\n<p>Projects should demonstrate how they respond to some of the main challenges facing the rail industry including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>increasing capacity, opportunity and ease of use for freight customers<\/li>\n<li>integrating other modes of transport into rail<\/li>\n<li>improving passenger comfort and facilities<\/li>\n<li>provision of real-time information<\/li>\n<li>improving cycling access and facilities<\/li>\n<li>transforming station design<\/li>\n<li>providing a universal customer database<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>the competition opens on 9 March 2015<\/li>\n<li>the deadline for registration is midday on 15 April 2015<\/li>\n<li>there will be briefing and networking events for potential applicants in Coventry on 2 March 2015 and London on 18 March 2015<\/li>\n<li>we expect projects to last between 1 and 3 years and to range in size from total costs of \u00a3250,000 to \u00a32 million<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/interact.innovateuk.org\/competition-display-page\/-\/asset_publisher\/RqEt2AKmEBhi\/content\/enhancing-customer-experience-in-rail-travel\">Find out more about this competition and apply<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses can apply for a share of \u00a36 million to support new digital technologies that improve customer experience on railways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}