{"id":87390,"date":"2017-12-18T13:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=584e8c9b89d16efb35894966480b725e"},"modified":"2017-12-18T13:00:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T13:00:45","slug":"news-story-businesses-encouraged-to-bid-for-transformative-innovation-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=87390","title":{"rendered":"News story: Businesses encouraged to bid for transformative innovation funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovative businesses with plans to transform <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> transport have the opportunity to bid for life-changing funding.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile ticketing via Bluetooth, measures to cut commuting time, and a pilot helping partially-sighted people navigate urban transport systems are just some of the proposals that have received money in the past from the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dft.gov.uk\/innovation-grants\/innovation-grants\/t-trig\/\">Transport Technology Research Innovation Grant (<abbr title=\"Transport Technology Research Innovation Grant\">T-TRIG<\/abbr>)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zk-FVRFDT2w\"><abbr title=\"Transport Technology Research Innovation Grant\">T-TRIG<\/abbr> announcement DriverNet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today (18 December 2017) the grant opens for its fifth round of applications \u2013 giving businesses the chance to bid for up to \u00a330,000 \u2013 a \u00a35,000 increase from previous rounds.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in the targeted call, bidders have been asked to focus on 2 key themes for this round of <abbr title=\"Transport Technology Research Innovation Grant\">T-TRIG<\/abbr> funding:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>improving the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr>\u2019s road network using big data and machine learning<\/li>\n<li>reducing shipping emissions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ground-breaking pilot projects are already benefiting passengers around the country, and this new round of innovation funding will give more businesses a chance to make their ideas a reality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I look forward to hearing from pioneering companies about their plans.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Up to \u00a31.14 million is available through this round of <abbr title=\"Transport Technology Research Innovation Grant\">T-TRIG<\/abbr> funding.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5RsV57O5GY4\"><abbr title=\"Transport Technology Research Innovation Grant\">T-TRIG<\/abbr> announcement Biella Research<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The programme began in 2014 as a pilot, and has subsequently been followed by 4 further rounds of funding.<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_2735\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>General media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Media enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 3021\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out of hours media enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 4292\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Switchboard<\/span><br \/>\n              0300 330 3000\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apply for innovation funding to transform UK transport.<\/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\/87390"}],"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=87390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}