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IMPART Intelligent Mobility PARTnership Midlands Centre of Excellence. Clare Edwards IMPART Outreach Champion De Montfort University. What is the Transport Systems Catapult?. Part of a world-leading network of technology and innovation centres
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IMPARTIntelligent Mobility PARTnershipMidlands Centre of Excellence Clare Edwards IMPART Outreach Champion De Montfort University
What is the Transport Systems Catapult? • Part of a world-leading network of technology and innovation centres • Bridge the gap between businesses, academia, research and government ‘Drive UK global leadership in intelligent mobility promoting sustained economicgrowth and wellbeing through integrated, efficient and sustainable transport systems’
What is IMPART? Partnership between the Transport Systems Catapult and four regional universities To deliver: • Collaboration between research and business • Placements and visits between the region and the Imovation Centre • Collaborations for funding opportunities • The development of skills and research All around Intelligent Mobility…
Vision of Intelligent Mobility NOT a new version of transport infrastructure…. Instead, a service that places the traveller at the heart of mobility and seeks to implement measures that provide the greatest choice and efficiency of travel.
Main Contacts IMPART Technical Champion Pete Thomas Loughborough University P.D.Thomas@lboro.ac.uk 01509 226931 IMPART Outreach Champion Clare Edwards De Montfort University cedwards@dmu.ac.uk 0116 207 8285