The Connected Places Catapult is the UK government's innovation agency for cities, transport and place leadership. It is one of several

Catapult centres Catapult centres are organisations set up from 2011 onwards by Innovate UK in the United Kingdom to promote research and development through business-led collaboration between scientists and engineers to exploit market opportunities. They recei ...

History

The organisation was formerly known as the Future Cities Catapult and also the Transport Systems Catapult, which were joined together on 1 April 2019. It works with

Innovate UK Innovate UK is the United Kingdom's innovation agency, which provides money and support to organisations to make new products and services. It is a non-departmental public body operating at arm's length from the Government as part of the United ...

, in

Swindon Swindon () is a town and unitary authority with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in Wiltshire, England. As of the 2021 Census, the population of Swindon was 201,669, making it the largest town in the county. The Swindon un ...

(

Wiltshire Wiltshire (; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of . It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershire ...

). A Deep Academic Alliance agreement was signed with UK universities in July 2018.

Future Cities Catapult

The Future Cities Catapult opened in London in 2013, to develop

smart cities A smart city is a technologically modern urban area that uses different types of electronic methods and sensors to collect specific data. Information gained from that data is used to manage assets, resources and services efficiently; in retur ...

. Its first chairman was

Sir David King Sir David Anthony King (born 12 August 1939) is a South African-born British chemist, academic, and head of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group. King first taught at Imperial College, London, the University of East Anglia, and was then Brunne ...

, a professor of physical chemistry who was previously the government's Chief Scientific Adviser.

Transport Systems Catapult

The Transport Systems Catapult opened in June 2014 in

Milton Keynes Milton Keynes ( ) is a city and the largest settlement in Buckinghamshire, England, about north-west of London. At the 2021 Census, the population of its urban area was over . The River Great Ouse forms its northern boundary; a tributary ...

, Buckinghamshire, directly west of Witan Gate House. The TSC worked with

Wayra Wayra is a technological innovation hub, which was started in Latin America and Spain in 2011 as an initiative of Telefónica's chief executive in Europe, José María Álvarez-Pallete. Wayra operates through 11 hubs in 10 countries within Telefón ...

UK.

Sites

A site at the

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

(at a new innovation centre that opened in 2018) opened in May 2019. A site at the

University of Strathclyde The University of Strathclyde ( gd, Oilthigh Shrath Chluaidh) is a public research university located in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1796 as the Andersonian Institute, it is Glasgow's second-oldest university, having received its royal chart ...

in Glasgow is at Innovo, next to the University of Strathclyde Technology and Innovation Centre, and west of the High Street railway station.

Projects

The organisation researches intelligent transportation systems and

automated driving system Vehicular automation involves the use of mechatronics, artificial intelligence, and multi-agent systems to assist the operator of a vehicle (car, aircraft, watercraft, or otherwise).Hu, J.; Bhowmick, P.; Lanzon, A.,Group Coordinated Control o ...

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Future Cities Catapult

Transport Systems CatapultCentre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
– Department for Transport and the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy {{Self-driving cars and enabling technologies 2019 establishments in the United Kingdom Automotive industry in the United Kingdom Catapult centres Clerkenwell College and university associations and consortia in the United Kingdom Government agencies established in 2019 Organisations based in Milton Keynes Organisations based in the London Borough of Islington Science and technology in Buckinghamshire Science and technology in Glasgow Science and technology in West Yorkshire Transport in the London Borough of Islington Transport organisations based in the United Kingdom Transport research organizations University of Leeds University of Strathclyde