The grow and level up the economy strategic priority is at the heart of the government’s agenda to spread opportunity across the UK. Transport has a crucial role to play, whether it be through improving connectivity across the United Kingdom and growing the economy by enhancing the transport network, on time and on budget. DfT has a number of specific interests in this space, notably our infrastructure projects, Places for Growth and our apprenticeships and skills work.
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To design the next-generation of interactive digital navigational tools and services to enhance the safety and efficiency of shipping....
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
The project aims to design interactive digital navigational tools and services to enhance the safety and efficiency of shipping, which directly addresses the question of how maritime information can be digitalized for machine reading and human interoperability.
CherSoft are a leading supplier of charts and navigation technology to maritime users. Over the last three years we have developed the concept of the Universal Chart Server (UCS). This is in response to a unique market o...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: CHERSOFT LTD
The project proposes the development of a universal chart integration and display system that integrates all major global providers' charts in a single coherent form, which directly addresses the question of whether different information is required by autonomous systems.
For a rapidly growing number of ships, increasing layers of redundancy in advanced navigation systems to accurately measure position and heading are vital to underpin mission-specific permissions/safety cases that addres...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: FURLONG SENSING LTD
The project focuses on developing a visual local positioning reference system for ships, which partially addresses the question of how maritime information can be digitalized for machine reading and human interoperability. However, it does not specifically mention the requirement of different information for autonomous systems.