"Organisations can apply for a share of £3 million for projects that develop automated examination of tunnels or use analytics to improve station security.
Network Rail is to invest up to £3 million in innovative projects that could help to improve efficiency and safety by automating the examination of rail tunnels and by using data analytics to minimise disruption from security incidents.
The company is responsible for more than 600 tunnels with a combined length of 335km. Examinations are carried out by humans and are expensive, time-consuming and dangerous. Network Rail wants to automate them to make them more efficient and safer."
Published 3 September 2019
From: Innovate UK and UK Research and InnovationB
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/impr ... -contracts
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