Supporting industry-led research and innovation

The transport industry has an extraordinary capacity for innovation including, but not limited to, engineering solutions.  The key question is, which technical problems do we need solutions to most urgently, and which will yield the greatest benefits for air quality and public health?

We are enabling researchers from industry and academia to work together to identify the optimal design attributes of vehicles to improve both in-vehicle and outdoor air quality.  Likewise, we seek to support transport operators with fleet procurement choices by development of appropriate guidance, specifications and standards.  Innovation in design must also extend from vehicles to transport hubs – the places we wait for, and access, transport provisions (e.g. bus, tram and train stations). We will apply clean air science to develop optimal design of these key locations, so as to protect and improve public health.

There is a significant step necessary for researching these areas of innovation under real-world conditions (in addition to laboratory environments), including where people and technology interact.  New technologies, transport choices and behaviours will increasingly call for evolving best practices, standards and regulatory frameworks.

See what Clean Air Research we are funding.

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