Live Labs - Transforming Local Places
ADEPT SMART Places Live Labs
The ADEPT SMART Places Live Labs Programme is a two-year, £22.9m project funded by the Department for Transport that will run until November 2021.
The advances made in digital technology have transformed how we live and work and will continue to have far-reaching impacts for some time to come. As Place Directors, ADEPT members need to be at the forefront of this rapid change: supporting communities, business and innovation in their areas.
In 2017, ADEPT created the SMART Places Research Programme to examine the opportunities and challenges facing the adoption of digital technology across the local highway network. Phase 1 of this programme culminated in the publication of ‘The route to the highways systems of the future' in October 2017.
Live Labs is Phase 3 of this programme (Phase 2 was a further development stage). Nine local authorities and their partners are working across eight innovative projects. These will develop new SMART approaches across communications, materials, energy solutions and mobility.
The ADEPT SMART Places programme is supported by ADEPT’s corporate partners: SNC-Lavalin’s Atkins business, EY, Kier, O2, Ringway and WSP. It launched on 31st May 2019.
More information on the progress of each Live Lab project will be published at key programme milestones. View the first of a series of quarterly White Papers.
The End of Year One report, published in November 2020, is available here.
You can also view the Live Labs blog or view Live Labs documents.
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Live Labs - Transforming Local Places — updates and resources
- 22 February 2021
TFWM Network Resilience Live Lab Newsletter- Issue 1
19 February 2021Live Labs - presentation by Programme Director Giles Perkins to ADEPT SE Board
9 February 2021E-bikes and E-scooters in the Live Labs - some wheely good progress!
1 February 2021Live Labs Blog: Embracing Virtual! Adept Live Labs Expo
18 December 2020Live Labs Blog: Buckinghamshire partnership boosts enLight’s growth, despite pandemic
10 December 2020ADEPT Live Labs Expo – transforming local places
11 November 2020Transforming local places – ADEPT’s Live Labs innovation programme End of Year One report
4 November 2020Live Labs Blog: Top Marks for Collaboration
2 November 2020Live Labs - White Papers
7 October 2020White Paper captures initial learnings of SMART innovation programme
7 October 2020ADEPT Live Labs White Paper #1 - Mobilising an Innovation Programme
7 October 2020Live Labs Blog: Getting ready for winter
30 September 2020Live Labs Blog: Kent goes international
28 August 2020Live Labs Blog: bringing innovation to Victorian streetlighting
24 July 2020Live Labs blog: Impacts, changed thinking and unexpected opportunities during Covid-19
1 July 2020Live Labs Blog: Buckinghamshire lights up
3 June 2020Live Labs blog: Birmingham test-bed for innovative video analytics
16 April 2020Live Labs blog: Positive partnerships with West Midlands Police
23 March 2020Suffolk Live Labs: all about that data
9 March 2020CIHT podcast on Future Mobility
19 September 2019ADEPT’s Live Labs launched - £22.9million SMART Places programme goes live
30 May 2019