Mark Glover12th January 2011

Enabling the digital railway

Richard Kemp-Harper

Concept to Commercialisation

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Accelerating the journey - concept to commercialisationConnecting the innovation landscapeTurning Government action into business opportunityInvesting in theme areas based on global potential Continuously improving Organisational capability

Enabling the digital railway

• Up to £5m grant funding available• Joint co-funded TSB and RSSB

programme with support of TSLG• Key technology area within the Rail

Technical Strategy• Global business opportunities for

systems and services• Recognised UK business and academic

capabilities

Business innovation in transport

The people perspective

Large institutional sponsor or client, probably public sector

Business opportunity – solution for a

market Consider human behaviour

Apply distinct capabilities

Technology enablers

Design-led development

System Integration

Meet key objectives

Competition scope

• Specific challenges faced by a key rail problem owners

• A range of capabilities in digital, ICT or satellite application technologies

• Integrate these capabilities into end-to-end proofs-of-concept

• Include consideration of human behaviours

Challenge

Address one or more specific challenges faced by a key rail business client, or

‘problem owner’

High level industry objectives• Reduce energy usage and carbon

emissions• Reduce cost: operations and

infrastructure• Improving capacity and utilisation of

existing capacity • Increase revenues and identifying new

revenue opportunities• Further improving safety • Improving the customer experience.

Capabilities

Combine a range of capabilities in digital, ICT or satellite application technologies,

linked to rail expertise, to develop a solution that could yield significant

business benefits for the problem owner

Innovative capabilities• Network capabilities and services,

including cloud services • Internet of Things • Management and analysis of big

data • Modelling and simulation

supporting data interpretation • Systems integration with physical

assets • Communications technologies

• Visualisation and decision support • Satellite applications • Business models drawn from the

digital and creative industries • Crowd-sourcing and social media • Digital services for engaging

customers through feedback or incentives

• Not an exclusive list

Integration

Aim to integrate these capabilities into end to-end proofs-of-concept, to show how the technologies involved can be

scaled up in a flexible way

Structure of a digital railway project

Rail employees, decision-makers,

passengers

Key rail organisationNR, LUL, Operators, Tier 1

Business opportunity –

services for rail clients Influencing behaviour,

Ways of working,Unmet needs

Apply digital capabilities

Design-led development

System Integration

Meet their objectives

Technology enablers

Human behaviour

Include consideration of human behaviour in the potential solution, to ensure that it will be accepted by end users, whether they be rail industry

employees or passengers.

The people perspective

• Who are the users and what are their needs?

• Can influencing behaviour be part of the solution?

• How will your proposal address this up-front?

• Do you have the right capabilities in your consortium?

Consortia• Not necessary to include client in consortium, not

excluded either- for discussion with the clients

• Problem owner can be a business close to the industry challenges such as tier 1 supplier

• A range of capabilities – a couple of partners is not going to cut it

• Innovative capabilities + rail expertise

Collaboration and engagement• Client engagement• Business collaboration• Academic expertise• Use today!• Unlocking Innovation event run by RIA 18th April• KTNs – Transport, ICT, ESP, Creative Industries• RRUKA

Role of clients in the process• Network Rail and London Underground are directly

supporting this programme• Defining challenges• Access to points of contact and links to business

sponsors and resources where appropriate• Ongoing, but managed, discussion through this

application process

And finally...• Customer Experience competition from the Enabling

Innovation Team• Rail capability analysis led by AD Little and Atkins• Rail KTP call launching in April – modelling simulation

and synthetic environments• Transport Systems Catapult

Thank you

• richard.kemp-harper@tsb.gov.uk• 07824599610• @kemp_harper

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