One in three cars built in the UK is a Nissan •  Nissan Sunderland Plant currently employs 7,000 people, manufacturing the Nissan Qashqai, Juke, LEAF and the Infiniti Q30 and QX30 • 80% of production is exported to over 130 markets globally •  Nissan’s European Design Centre is located in Paddington, London and employs around 65 people •  Nissan’s European Technical Centre is based in Cranfield, Bedfordshire and employs around 1,000 people •  Nissan’s sales and marketing headquarters in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire employs around 190 people.

About Nissan in Europe

Nissan has one of the most comprehensive European presences of any overseas manufacturer, employing more than 17,000 staff across locally-based design, research & development, manufacturing, logistics and sales & marketing operations. Last year Nissan plants in the UK, Spain and Russia produced more than 635,000 vehicles including award-winning crossovers, commercial vehicles and the Nissan LEAF, the world’s most popular electric vehicle. Pursuing a goal of zero emissions and zero fatalities on the road, Nissan recently announced its Intelligent Mobility vision. Designed to guide Nissan’s product and technology pipeline, this 360-degree approach to the future of mobility will anchor critical company decisions around how cars are powered, how cars are driven, and how cars integrate into society. Nissan is positioned to become the most desirable Asian brand in Europe. http://www.newsroom.nissan-europe.com

Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, delivers innovations that answer society’s challenges. The company’s consolidated revenues for fiscal 2016 (ended March 31, 2017) totalled 9,162.2 billion yen ($81.8 billion). The Hitachi Group is a global leader in the Social Innovation Business, and it has approximately 304,000 employees worldwide. Through collaborative creation, Hitachi is providing solutions to customers in a broad range of sectors, including Power / Energy, Industry / Distribution / Water, Urban Development, and Finance / Government & Public / Healthcare. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company’s website at http://www.hitachi.com

About Hitachi Europe Ltd.

Hitachi Europe Ltd., a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is headquartered in Maidenhead, UK. The company is focused on its Social Innovation Business – delivering innovations that answer society’s challenges. Hitachi Europe and its subsidiary companies offers a broad range of information & telecommunication systems; rail systems, power and industrial systems; industrial components & equipment; automotive systems, financial services; digital media & consumer products and others with operations and research & development Laboratories across EMEA. For more information, visit http://www.hitachi.eu 

About the European R&D Centre of Hitachi Europe, Ltd.

The European R&D Centre is part of the Global Center for Social Innovation (“CSI”) of the Research & Development Group of Hitachi, Ltd. Researchers at CSI-Europe work together with the business units within Hitachi, partners and customers to develop new solutions through collaborative creation. CSI-Europe has 70 researchers located in five sites: London, Cambridge, Copenhagen, Munich and Sophia Antipolis (France). They are working on five domains: Automotive, Industry, Rail, Energy, and Healthcare. In the automotive domain, CSI-Europe conceives/provides ICT/Control and Powertrain innovative solutions for vehicles of the future.

HORIBA MIRA is a global provider of pioneering engineering, research and test services to the automotive, defence, aerospace and rail sectors. We work in close collaboration with vehicle manufacturers and suppliers around the world, providing comprehensive support ranging from individual product tests to turnkey multi-vehicle design, development and build programmes.  With over 70 years’ experience in developing some of the world’s most iconic vehicles, our engineers utilise the latest test facilities and simulation tools to make vehicles and journeys safer, cleaner, more efficient and rewarding. Our suite of over 37 major test facilities, 100km of specialised proving ground and wealth of engineering experience, combined with our expanding international presence, means we are confident that we can achieve our vision – that by 2020 every journey in the world will be positively influenced by us.

For more information visit https://www.horiba-mira.com/

The Connected Places Catapult – the new name for the Transport Systems and Future Cities Catapults.

The new Connected Places Catapult will accelerate smarter living and travelling in and between the places of tomorrow. We will focus on growing businesses with innovations in mobility services and the built environment that enable new levels of physical, digital and social connectedness. The Connected Places Catapult will operate at the intersection between public and private sectors and between local government and transport authorities. We will convene the disparate parts of the market to help innovators navigate the complexity of doing business, creating new commercial opportunities and improving productivity, socio-economic and environmental benefits for places.

Find out more about CPC’s role in the HumanDrive project.

SBD Automotive is a global consultancy firm specialising in automotive technologies. Now in our 20th year, our independent research, insight, and consultancy are helping vehicle manufacturers and their partners to create smarter, more secure, better connected, and increasingly autonomous cars.  Having built a reputation for robust data and expert advice, as well as an ability to attract and retain the industry’s most talented specialists, this year SBD Automotive earned a place on the Sunday Times SME Export Track 100, and received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise – a much-coveted award for outstanding achievement by UK companies. If you would like to learn more, please visit www.sbdautomotive.com

Cranfield University is an exclusively postgraduate university specialising in technology and management research whilst demonstrating global leadership in the quality of its education provision (both to students and to executive-level professionals). Cranfield University is number one in the UK for training and producing engineering and technology postgraduates. In the recent Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 exercise, 81% of our research was judged to be world-leading or internationally excellent. Cranfield University has also been awarded the prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prize in Further and Higher Education four times, for our Fellowship in Manufacturing Management (2005), work in Humanitarian DeMining (2007), Aviation Safety through research and training in air accident investigation (2011) and for our research on water and sanitation for developing countries (2015).

The IMEC (Intelligent Mobility Engineering Centre), one of Cranfield University’s new facilities, will enhance Cranfield’s position as one of the UK’s leading centres for education, training and research for the rapidly growing intelligent mobility and transport systems sector. The MUEAVI (Multi-User Environment for Autonomous Vehicle Innovation) road is a £9 million research facility.  Also opening in autumn 2017, it is a mile of ‘smart’ roadway that will be used in the development of connected and autonomous vehicles, including the associated systems needed to integrate technologies into our day-to-day lives. MUEAVI will be unique, as it will be integrated into the heart of the campus, providing a new arterial road and a pedestrian friendly boulevard, while also serving as a ‘living lab’ research environment.

The Centre for Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems has a leading reputation in autonomous and space systems, established with over 15 years of research in this field.  We cover all types of autonomous systems including airborne, ground and marine as well as autonomous space exploration. We are renowned for being a leading European centre for postgraduate teaching and research in autonomous and space systems with approximately 500 alumni members around the world working in the autonomous vehicles and space industry. The Centre was member of the Team Stellar, the winning team for the UK MoD Grand Challenge (2008) and the IET Innovation Award (Category Team, 2009). Over the last two decades we have developed a significant body of research in space engineering and applications and we are currently active on three space missions.

Atkins (www.atkinsglobal.com), member of the SNC-Lavalin group, is one of the world’s most respected design, engineering and project management consultancies, employing some 18,300 people across the UK, North America, Middle East, Asia Pacific and Europe. We build long term trusted partnerships to create a world where lives are enriched through the implementation of our ideas. You can view Atkins’ recent projects at http://www.atkinsglobal.com/en-GB

For more information about Atkins’s approach to autonomous vehicles and Intelligent Mobility, please visit our website and iM Hub: www.atkinsglobal.com/im

Founded in 1911, SNC-Lavalin is a global fully integrated professional services and project management company and a major player in the ownership of infrastructure. From offices around the world, SNC-Lavalin’s employees are proud to build what matters. Our teams provide comprehensive end-to-end project solutions – including capital investment, consulting, design, engineering, construction, sustaining capital and operations and maintenance – to clients in oil and gas, mining and metallurgy, infrastructure and power. On July 3, 2017, SNC-Lavalin acquired Atkins, one of the world’s most respected design, engineering and project management consultancies. www.snclavalin.com

Aimsun develops the integrated Aimsun Next mobility modelling software, which provides an accurate and cost-effective simulation environment for testing connected and autonomous vehicles. The simulated Aimsun Next environment is a way to accurately investigate the impacts of different CAV systems, including vehicle management and control strategies, as well as the impact of robustness issues such as information delays, data integrity, and black spots in connectivity and communications.

Find out more about Aimsun’s role in the HumanDrive project.

Highways England is the wholly government-owned company responsible for modernising, maintaining and operating England’s motorways and major A roads. Our road network totals around 4,300 miles. While this represents only 2 per cent of all roads in England by length, these roads carry a third of all traffic by mileage and two thirds of all heavy goods traffic. England’s major road network: forms the economic backbone of the country; is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week; is relied on by communities and businesses across the country. We will deliver £15 billion of investment on our road network as described in the government’s Road Investment strategy. This includes £11 billion of capital funding committed between 2015 and 2020 – as set out in our Strategic Business Plan.  For more information visit www.highways.gov.uk