Leicester leads on £2.4m transport project
A £2.4m project for green traffic management systems in European cities and towns is to be led by University of Leicester and Leicester City Council.
It will be officially launched at the National Space Centre in Leicester tomorrow (18 January).
Funding of €2.7m (£2.4m) has been secured from the European Commission, with the University of Leicester acting as scientific lead and Leicester City Council assuming the role of accountable body for the three-year project.
Other local partners are: De Montfort University, The University of Nottingham and Leicester-based Astrium Services.
The partners will be working with research clusters from the Molise region in Italy, the Midi-Pyrenees and Aquitaine regions in France and the Mazovia region in Poland.
About 70 delegates from all the partner regions and representatives from business, other universities and local authorities will gather at a launch conference for The Issue Project at the National Space Centre.
Councillor Rory Palmer, deputy city mayor and cabinet lead on transport and climate change at Leicester Council, is set to give a welcome address to delegates at the conference.
He said: "Making Leicester a low-carbon city is one of our main priorities and this kind of research will be essential to helping tackle issues around congestion and air quality in the future. I am proud that the city council can help make this work possible."
