Transport innovations centre

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A new multi-million-pound centre for intelligent transport innovations under construction in Nuneaton, Warwickshire could help make future cars safer and more fuel efficient.

The £6.5m innovITS - ADVANCE centre, supported by Advantage West Midlands, will bring together UK transport systems specialists from MIRA and Transport Research Laboratory (TRL).

The new centre is designed for the development of intelligent transport systems (ITS) technologies for consumer products.

Some of the possible innovations being considered for development at the centre include autonomous vehicles, car trains, and collision avoidance and mitigation systems.

The first phase of innovITS - ADVANCE centre is expected to be open in the late Spring of 2010. It is envisaged that four further phases of development, which fall within the boundaries of MIRA’s existing site in Nuneaton, will be opened in the coming years.

The collaborators behind innovITS - ADVANCE believe the rapid emergence of innovations in electronics, mobile telecommunications and navigational technologies offers the prospect for advances in the way that road vehicles are able to operate and interact with the highways on which they travel.

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