IMPART
Intelligent Mobility PARTnership
Midlands Centre of Excellence
Clare Edwards
IMPART Outreach Champion
De Montfort University
What is the Transport
Systems Catapult?
• Part of a world-leading network of technology and innovation
centres
• Bridge the gap between businesses, academia, research and
government
‘Drive UK global leadership in intelligent mobility
promoting sustained economic growth and wellbeing
through integrated, efficient and sustainable transport
systems’
What is IMPART?
Partnership between the Transport Systems Catapult and four
regional universities
To deliver:
• Collaboration between research and business
• Placements and visits between the region and the
Imovation Centre
• Collaborations for funding opportunities
• The development of skills and research
All around Intelligent Mobility…
Vision of Intelligent Mobility
NOT a new version of transport
infrastructure….
Instead, a service that places
the traveller at the heart of
mobility and seeks to
implement measures that
provide the greatest choice and
efficiency of travel.
Main Activities of IMPART
Main Contacts
IMPART Outreach
Champion
Clare Edwards
De Montfort University
cedwards@dmu.ac.uk
0116 207 8285
IMPART Technical
Champion
Pete Thomas
Loughborough University
P.D.Thomas@lboro.ac.uk
01509 226931