Innovate UK CAM Pathfinder: Enable

The Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) Pathfinder programme lays the foundations for an early commercial market. It positions the UK to secure first mover advantage in Europe for the deployment of CAM products and services.

The aim of this competition is to support the UK Government’s ambition to advance CAM services in high-value areas into commercial offerings. This will be achieved by funding trials led by service operators or entities who benefit directly from the end use of CAM in live or analogous settings.

Successful projects will be expected to confirm operational models and service delivery and define roles, responsibilities, and commercial readiness for future CAM deployment at scale.

Your proposal must outline a project for a live trial with real stakeholders. Suitably mature technologies should be used to answer commercial operational business case requirements, rather than developing technologies during the project.

Your project must consider, analyse, and report on each of the following aspects:

• Operational models, role definitions, and legal and ethical liability areas across roles
• Routes towards compliance with current, near-term, and likely long-term regulatory requirements for vehicle approval, authorisation, and service licensing
• Detailed solutions to training of developers, operators, maintenance staff, and, where appropriate, remote monitoring operating staff
• Virtual and physical verification and assurance processes required to meet stakeholder requirements
• In-service use monitoring
• Data, including collection, reduction, handling, processing, and storage on and off-vehicle
• Safety cases, including content of versions for different stakeholders such as ASDE, NUiCO, insurance companies, local authorities, emergency services, and the public
• Insurance engagement and insurance cost modelling
• Infrastructure requirements, including connectivity, remote monitoring, and operations
• Scalability to a wider customer market and assessment of willingness to pay for services such as those trialled in the project
• Supplier requirements for vehicle platforms based on the operator and users’ needs