Ahead of this month’s CiTTi Awards 2024 ceremony, City Transport & Traffic Innovation Magazine is profiling each of this year’s finalists – continuing with those shortlisted for The Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Award!
This brand-new award celebrates projects and breakthroughs in technologies that significantly advance the capabilities, integration, safety and public acceptance of autonomous and connected vehicles within urban environments.
Entries had to include innovation in technology, demonstrate safety improvements, integration with existing transport systems, user experience enhancements, and contributions to reducing traffic congestion and emissions.
What’s more, submissions had to detail a project or technology’s impact on advancing autonomous transportation and its potential for scalability and positive societal impact.
This year’s finalists are:
Welsh government and Compass IoT
The Welsh government and Compass IoT are nominated for the innovative use of connected vehicle data to enhance road safety. By analysing data from a 7.95km stretch of the A458 for the Welsh government, Compass IoT identified that 32.58% of vehicles were overtaking on double white lines. This real-time dashboard, filtering by vehicle type and direction, leverages Y-acceleration and g-forces to track risky driver behaviour, in addition to providing highly scalable, precise insights, supporting authorities in making data-driven safety interventions.DPD UK
DPD is nominated for its innovative use of autonomous delivery robots as part of its commitment to achieving net zero emissions by 2040. Partnering with Cartken, DPD has deployed a number of scalable, AI-driven robots to reduce road traffic and carbon emissions. Operated from local depots, the robots offer seamless, emission-free parcel delivery to residential areas, with plans to expand to 10 additional towns and cities.Greater Cambridgeshire Partnership
The Greater Cambridge Partnership (GCP) is nominated for its pioneering use of autonomous shuttles as part of a broader sustainable transport strategy. GCP’s autonomous vehicle trials, initiated on the University of Cambridge’s West Cambridge site, have been instrumental in exploring how technology can offer flexible, low-emission travel. Following a successful initial trial with Aurrigo shuttles in 2021, GCP has secured funding for further autonomous bus services, set to connect Madingley Road Park & Ride to key locations such as Cambridge Biomedical Campus by early 2025.
Acclaimed Irish stand-up comedian Andrew Ryan has been announced as the special guest host of CiTTi Awards 2024. He will reveal all the winners on Tuesday November 26 at De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms in central London.
The ceremony will be attended by 200 of the UK’s leading transport professionals from local, regional and central government and other place stakeholders – including landowners, developers, and business improvement districts – and their project partners, such as architects, planners, contractors, and technology companies.
Guests will be greeted with a drinks reception held in the Balmoral Suite ahead of the winners being announced within the impressive surrounds of the Grand Hall, which features arched ornate ceilings, beautiful wood-panelling and dramatic chandeliers.
November’s trophy-giving ceremony and public announcement of the winners follows a thorough and exacting shortlisting and judging process, which saw more than 20 transport industry experts evaluate written entries and Zoom-based presentations from nearly 90 organisations across 20 categories.
Tables of 10 and individual tickets can be purchased here. Each seat booked includes a ticket that grants each guest access to the pre-ceremony drinks reception, a three-course dinner, the trophy-giving presentation and invaluable networking opportunities.
Anyone is welcome to attend CiTTi Awards 2024. You do not need to be an finalist to book, so secure your place now for this year’s most exciting social event in the UK transportation sector’s calendar!
The third annual CiTTi Awards will be held on 26 November 2024 at De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms in London. Visit www.cittiawards.co.uk to learn more about this unmissable event for the UK’s transportation sector – and to book your table!
