Funding of £1.2 million to support transport decarbonisation research is being offered by a UK research hub TransiT.
It will be available for those who are eligible to receive funding from UK Research and Innovation.
The new ‘Flexible Fund’ is expected to support six UK-based research projects with up to £200,000 each and will be awarded for one-year projects starting in April 2027, supported by the UKRI Engineering and Phsyical Sciences Research Council.
The collaboration will use digital twins to identify the fastest, lowest-cost and least-risky routes to transport decarbonisation in the UK, across road, rail, air and maritime.
Professor Phil Greening, TransiT Programme Lead at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, said: “TransiT was launched with the vision of de-risking transport decarbonisation by using state-of-the-art digital twinning and prediction tools. We’re now at a critical juncture in our research – and this funding will unlock new areas of that work – as well as supporting other researchers in this field.”
In its funding call, TransiT invites research submissions that can establish a rigorous methodology for understanding federated transport systems, with a particular focus on data, semantics, interoperability, performance and assurance.
It says this will ‘underpin the development of federated digital transport twins’.
Applicants to TransiT’s Flexible Fund must submit an expression of interest by 19 October 2026, with selected applicants then invited to develop a full proposal.
Projects will start in April 2027 and must be completed within 12 months. All projects must secure at least 30% matched funding from industry partners, either as direct financial contributions or as in-kind support.
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