How can aviation best facilitate trade?

Background

Increasing our global impact recognises the UK’s opportunities in the world and the importance of DfT contributing effectively toward the government’s vision of a global Britain. Operating and engaging globally will play a vital role in assisting the department in maintaining and extending its influence with international partners, including ensuring high standards of transport safety, security, and environmental protection and boosting UK trade, exports, and inward investment. UK science and innovation has the potential to develop transport-related exports and inward investment, thereby helping grow and level up the economy. Our R&D around climate change mitigation and adaptation can help influence the international community to take progressively stronger action.

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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

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    Funded by: ISCF

    Lead research organisation: HEATHROW AIRPORT LIMITED

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    The project NAPKIN is developing the blueprint for a UK sustainable aviation system, directly addressing the need for rapid, affordable, and sustainable regional connectivity.

  • Sustainable Aviation Test Environment 2

    Based at Kirkwall Airport in the Orkney Islands, the Sustainable Aviation Test Environment (SATE) is the UK's first low-carbon aviation test centre embedded at a commercial airport. SATE brings together an international...

    Funded by: ISCF

    Lead research organisation: HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS AIRPORTS LIMITED

    Why might this be relevant?

    The Sustainable Aviation Test Environment (SATE) aims to improve regional connectivity and support the Scottish Government's ambition for a Highlands and Islands Net Zero Aviation region by 2040, but does not directly address how aviation can best facilitate trade.

  • PULSAR: Propelling eUropean Leadership through Synergizing Aviation Research

    Aviation sector faces many challenges such as achieving technological breakthroughs, reducing its environmental impact and increasing the sector’s workforce skills while complying with new EU policies and priorities such...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

    Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

    Why might this be relevant?

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  • AirCnC - The Platform to connect crisis demand for cargo with available aviation capacity

    During the Covid-19 pandemic, cargo and freight flights are amongst the few areas operating and generating revenue for the aviation sector. Cargo and freight have historically had less investment than passenger air trave...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: FUTURICE LIMITED

  • PULSAR

    Aviation sector faces many challenges such as achieving technological breakthroughs, reducing its environmental impact and increasing the sector’s workforce skills while complying with new EU policies and priorities such...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

    Lead research organisation: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC

  • Innovation in Aviation Engagement Capability

    The CAA will overhaul its approach to innovation by setting up, for the first time, a transparent and focussed engagement platform to better enable innovators develop new products and services to come to market in the av...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY

  • Air Mobility Ecosystem Consortium

    The world faces two pressing challenges. Congestion in cities, the lifeblood of national economies, is rising to unacceptable levels. This causes poor health outcomes and strangles economic growth. At the same time, huma...

    Funded by: ISCF

    Lead research organisation: ATKINS LIMITED

  • INDICATOR: International and National Developments In Collaborations relating to Air Travel and Operational Research

    The INDICATOR (International and National Developments In Collaborations relating to Air Travel and Operational Research) proposal is in response to the EPSRC 'Collaborating for success through people' call. This proposa...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Lead research organisation: Loughborough University

  • UK Aerospace Research Consortium Network

    This proposal is to set up an EPSRC Network for the UK Aerospace Research Consortium (UK-ARC) The primary aim of the UK-ARC Network is to accelerate UK-based technology advancement within priority aerospace and aviation...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Lead research organisation: Cranfield University

  • Impact Monitor

    Impact Monitor is a proposal to deliver a coherent and holistic framework and toolbox that aim to become the reference choice for technology and policy assessment of the environmental-, economic- and societal-impact of E...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

    Lead research organisation: CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY

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