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The Department for Transport (DfT) has awarded £1.96 million in funding to 67 projects centring around transport technology as part of the UK government’s Transport Research and Innovation Grant (TRIG) programme.
Aiming to support the development of ‘transport technologies of the future’, the TRIG programme was announced in December 2022, as reported by Logistics Manager.
Speaking on the grant funding, Transport and Decarbonisation Minister Jesse Norman said: “The government wants the UK to be a world leader in the future of transport and, through the TRIG programme, the Department for Transport is supporting innovators and businesses to decarbonise and improve transport while growing the economy and supporting jobs across the UK.”
One of the winning projects has received funding to “explore how autonomous drones based out of small delivery hubs can be used to deliver small packages faster and cheaper to hard-to-reach rural areas”.
IONA Logistics describes itself as “a new kind of local logistics provider that mainly benefits rural areas, connecting unreached communities or those experiencing delivery surcharges due to the energy intensity of delivering there”.
The company’s work is based around the idea that using drones for the delivery of small packages to rural areas can cut costs, delivery times, and carbon emissions while increasing efficiency. Read more
Source: LOGISTICS MANAGER
