The IET Innovation Awards

Transport Award

Scope of category

Entries to the IET Transport Innovation Award category will be considered for innovation in any aspect of international transportation including (but not limited to) the areas covered by the IET's Transport Sector, except where they are covered by other categories (the following are guidance only and are not necessarily exhaustive):

Aerospace

• Airport services and management systems, air traffic management  (including decision making support), civil systems - emergency mode decision support
• Avionics / aircraft flight control systems, engine systems
• Air defence, electronic warfare / information operations, warfare command decision tools
• Unmanned aerial vehicles(civil and military)
• Air and space vehicle power
• Data sensor subsystems
• Aircraft in-flight entertainment
• Integrated logistic support for aerospace systems
• Information technology for aerospace

Automotive and road transport systems

• Drive systems: Electric propulsion, hybrid vehicle technologies
• In-car information systems
• Vehicle-highway communication, transport flow modelling / highway management
• Adaptive cruise control /single or convoy, intelligent speed adaptation
• Driver alertness detection, blind-spot elimination, lane departure warning, alco-locks
• Congestion charging
• Intelligent transport systems
• X-by-wire

Marine radar, sonar and navigation

• Radar systems
• Sonar systems
• Navigation systems
• Avoidance warning/control systems
• Propulsion systems
• Ship board power systems

Railway

• Promotion of railway systems – metro, mainline, freight
• Construction of railway systems – trackside, rolling stock
• Railway systems other than steel wheel/steel rail (e.g. monorail, rubber-tyred)
• Improving railway safety systems
• On board systems, including electric traction systems, regenerative braking, Improving efficiency/economy (coasting systems)
• Trackside, including signalling systems, operations and maintenance
• Passenger information systems (trackside and trainborne), railway information systems (supporting command and control), station information systems (for benefit of staff), operator interfaces
• Passenger train interface
• Facilitating interoperability
• Journey planning, ticketing systems
• EMI/EMC, degraded mode technologies

See also

• How to enter
• All categories