Business Secretary Greg Clark recently launched the first competition to access funding from the government’s £100 million investment programme supporting the creation of test facilities for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV).
A total of £100m has been allocated to support the development of CAV test site infrastructure. Innovate UK is working with the Centre of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) to deliver this with a £55m competition now open and a second competition for most of the rest of the fund expected to open later this year.
The first phase of the competition will support a number of projects divided into four different streams covering a range of environments for testing connected autonomous vehicles including:
- public test facilities in a complex, real-world urban or city environment
- a controlled test environment representative of driving in a city
- a realistic and controlled high-speed, test environment
For details of the competition brief, and how to register and apply, visit the government website. Interested businesses must register before midday on 12 July 2017.
