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Flying High
Challenge
LGA Annual Conference
5 July 2018
Kathy Nothstine, Nesta
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About Nesta
Nesta is an innovation foundation.
We combine knowledge, networks, funding and skills to
back new ideas that tackle big challenges.
We do:
• Policy & research
• Skills (for innovation)
• Investments
• Programmes
• Challenge prizes
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Technology is advancing rapidly - not just military and
hobbyist
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A significant commercial opportunity
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How can cities shape the future of drone applications?
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Flying High is a collaborative
engagement with five UK city-
regions to shape the future of urban
drone technology to address local
needs.
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London
Bradford
Preston
Southampton
West Midlands
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Programme Objectives
1. Democratise the development of drone use in urban
areas, to understand if and how people want to drones
to operate in their cities - be proactive not reactive
2. Explore civic and commercial urban drone use cases inc.
technical and economic feasibility; challenges and
opportunities
3. Unlock latent commercial opportunity for civic and
commercial drone products and services (particularly in
hazardous and challenging environments), shifting public
debate on drones
4. Inform regulators on drone demand to support new
regulation
MayAprilMarc
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Jun
eFeb
Vision Development
National Opportunity and Stakeholder Engagement
Feasibility Studies
Use case selection
End
Phase 1
Timeline
Task force meetings
Stakeholder workshops
Kickoff
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Flying High Phase 1 (Feb – June 2018)
Findings Report
● National Opportunity
● City Visions
● System Requirements
● Feasibility Studies
Phases 2 & 3
2. Technical and Economic Feasibility
Studies (one per city)● Disaster Response (Bradford)
● Medical & Time-Critical Urban Delivery
(London)
● City Regeneration / Construction
(Preston)
● Isle of Wight Connectivity (Southampton)
● Traffic Incident Support (West Midlands)
1. City Visions
● Vision Statement (Why and
What)
● Guiding Principles (How)
● Place-based strategies &
demonstrator opportunities
Report Launch and
Phase 1 Event
23rd July 2018
Carrying medical
goods across the
Solent
Responding to
traffic incidents
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London Bradford West Midlands Southampton Preston
Supporting the fire
service
Surveying for
urban
regeneration
Urgent delivery of
medical products
between hospitals
Use cases
Phase 1:
Engagement &
Research (2018)
Flying High Future Phases
City visions Consideration of additional UK cities
with advanced drone research and
capabilities
Determine test-bed locations
Industry
invited to
participate
via
challenge
prizes
Public engagement
Simulated
virtual test
environments
Physical test-
bed locations
Europe co-ordination
Cross-UK city network
Design final prize challenges
Stakeholder engagement
City test demonstrations
Phase 2: Engagement &
Prize Design
(2018-2019)
Phase 3: Challenge Prizes / Demonstrations
(2019-2020)
Use case technical,
economic and
social feasibility
studies
Systems design
Public viewpoint
Phases 2 & 3 in development
Thank you
For more information, visit the
website:
http://flyinghighchallenge.org/
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Delivering inclusive growth
Nesta’s Flying High Challenge: West MidlandsLucy Gosling: [email protected]
Delivering inclusive growth
About the Flying High Challenge
Nesta’s Flying High Challenge is a collaborative engagement with five UK city-regions to shape the future of urban drone technology to address local needs.
As well as working with the five city-regions, Nesta have been engaged with: InnovateUK, DfT, BEITS and the CAA.
London PrestonBradford Southampton West Midlands
Delivering inclusive growth
Why the West Midlands was selected
The West Midlands is well positioned to emerge as a leader in drone innovation:
• We are rapidly transforming… and delivering for our people
• Regional strengths:
Industrial heritage
Culture and reputation of innovation
Devolved, regional approach
• Diversity of our communities and urban landscape
• Our diverse network of stakeholders
West Midlands Combined Authority, and wider LEP areas.
Delivering inclusive growth
Why we are interested in drones for the region
Drone services have the potential to contribute to key regional priorities:
• Infrastructure and Development
Asset monitoring and maintenance, land use monitoring, supporting construction, surveying
• Transport and Logistics
Monitoring conditions, managing congestion, last mile delivery, product movement (warehouses and delivery)
• Emergency Services
Traffic incident response, emergency response/ management, policing (crowds, missing people, crime), medical transport
The potential of drones is being recognised…
Delivering inclusive growth
Creating a vision for drones in the West Midlands
Stakeholders identified the following themes as important
guiding principles for a future drone policy:
• Create a growth environment
• boosting key sectors and enabling enterprise to flourish
• Encourage interoperability
• Multi-use drones which can be shared between users
• Add value
• Balancing commercial and community interests
Stakeholder event in May 2018
Delivering inclusive growth
Use Case: ‘Rapid Response to Traffic Incident’
What: Drone to be initial response to incident
Provide real time info to the emergency services
In the future – manage congestion, multi-purpose
Why: Reputation as leaders in intelligent transport
Geography/ key route network
Synergies with partners and initiatives
Drones as a ‘force for good’
Where: Hotspots for congestion / incidents
Proximity to Airport /HS2 /CAV, smart motorwaysDrones at an emergency services training day
Delivering inclusive growth
Link to Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
The West Midlands should leverage its position as a future testbed for mobility technologies to explore the potential for drones in UK cities.
• Midlands Future Mobility (open for business 2020/21)
• £5.3m to build a testbed for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs)
• 50km of real roads, in Coventry, Birmingham and Solihull. Strategic A45 route passing the airport
• Potential for drones:
- build a safety case
- strong 4G coverage
- route identified in use case
- access to network of experts Aerial of Birmingham taken by West Midlands Police drone
Delivering inclusive growth
Next Steps for drones in West Midlands
• Enable…
Proactive approach
Enable new initiatives and enterprise
Ensure added value and policy alignment
• Collaborate…
Tap into expertise
Ensure stakeholder ‘buy-in’
Unlock investment
• Engage…
Public and political
Build an accurate, shared understanding
Aerial of Wolverhampton taken by West Midlands Police drone
Delivering inclusive growth
What the Challenge has meant for us…
• A new technology….
• Beginning of a conversation…
• Positioning the region as a future leader…
Stakeholder event in May 2018
TfWM.org.uk
Preston, a Flying High
City
Councillor Matthew Brown
Leader of Preston City Council
LGA Conference
5 July 2018
Preston – Potential PerformanceLGA 5 July 2018
• Forward planning study work by City Deal partners, assisted by Keppie
Massie (December 2016, adjusted for inclusion on Chorley) identify the
potential for accelerating the existing city deal programme/model would
provide:
– 30,000+ new jobs in Central Lancashire between 2016 and 2030
– 55,000+ extra population by 2030
– 30,000+ extra households
– 31,000+ extra houses
• Regeneration of Preston station to add 7,850 FTE jobs (over 10,000 jobs
in total) and £ 324m in additional GVA from 2022 to 2032; generating 4,000
additional homes
• Ribble Link to deliver £ 31.6m uplift in productivity, 1663 new jobs and
contribute some £ 37.4m additional GVA pa
• In total, Ekosgen estimate that from 2025 there is the potential in Preston &
SoutRibble alone of a Ribble alone a potential 20,000 additional jobs
Achieving Preston’s PrioritiesLGA 5 July 2018
PRESTON: YOUR CITY initiatives LGA 5 July 2018
• Shankly Hotel (Old Post Office) – est. completion spring 2019
• Re-imagining the Harris (Museum & Art Gallery) – joint project
with LCC and Arts Council
• Culture & Leisure – Lancashire Encounter and other arts
activities
• Revitalised Markets – covered market and box market - opened
early 2018– new cinema and leisure development planned for old
covered market
• Preston Bus station – new public square completed 2018, new
Youth Zone and refurbished bus station
• Fishergate – Public Realm improvements connecting railway
station to bus station
• Railway Station – station improvements and preparation for HS2
PRESTON: YOUR CITY initiatives LGA 5 July 2018
• Winckley Square – Townscape Heritage Initiative –
improvements and investment
• UCLAN Masterplan – including new Engineering Innovation
Centre– opening Feb 2019
• City Deal – new infrastructure investment to realise 20,000 new
jobs, 17,000 new homes, £1bn growth in GVA, £ 2.3bn private
sector investment; Central Lancashire Construction Skills Hub
• Promoting the city – marketing
• Housing Action Zone – city centre living in Stoneygate/Guildhall
St areas
PRESTON: FAIRNESS FOR YOU initiativesLGA 5 July 2018
• Social Value Policy – weighting contracts to get added “social
value” out of them (apprenticeships, skills investment, local supply
chains etc.)
• Community Wealth Building – between 2012/13 and 2016/17
the 6 Preston “anchor” institutions repatriated £ 539m
procurement spend to Preston/Lancashire; total procurement
spend by anchors within Lancashire increased from 39% to 80% -
an uplift of £200m
• Living Wage - 80.7% of all employees in Preston were paid the
Living Wage in 2017 – an increase from 76.7% in 2016; the
number of jobs in Preston paid less than the Living Wage have
decreased from 19,000 in 2016 to 15,000 in 2017; around 45
companies and institutions based in Preston are Living Wage
employers
PRESTON: FAIRNESS FOR YOU initiativesLGA 5 July 2018
• Building Community Capacity: – Inner East Preston – England’s first inner city Community Council, funded
through the Big Lottery Fund
– Connected Communities project with UCLAN
– Supporting franchise of Citizens UK
– Community Work Clubs
• Preston Co-operative Network – Mondragon-style network to
promotes alternative forms of economic democracy – first two
new co-ops to start by summer 2018
• Financial Inclusion – Credit Union, CDFI, programme of advice
& support; work on new Co-operative Bank proposal and other
forms of financial intermediation
• Energy Purchasing scheme – started 2017
• Health Eating strategies and activities
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We can’t do it alone LGA 5 July 2018
To survive austerity:
• Not possible to just do less of what we used to do – there isn’t
enough money
• Need to work in partnership with others – key local partners are
local “anchor institutions such as the University, the County
Council, Community Gateway Association, Preston’s College,
Cardinal Newman College, Lancashire Constabulary, the Health
Trust…..
• Partnership must be non-bureaucratic and have a positive
bottom line impact
We can’t do it alone LGA 5 July 2018
• Need to think in different ways about resources available to
us – for the council this means:– our staff (terms and conditions of employment, where they spend their money,
savings through CU etc.)
– Our procurement spend (money that’s already there)
– Land, property & investments (how can value accrue to wider range of people?)
– Re-imagining forms of economic democracy (ownership of assets, new forms
of governance, new forms of financial investment and ownership)
• Re-imagining ways of doing business – what activities should
we prioritise/facilitate; and how can new technologies facilitate
that – Smart city technologies, big data, community researchers,
UAVs, drones…..
• Council leadership – yes, as champion of place; but not alone
and no need to “own” every initiative
Why Flying High? LGA 5 July 2018
• Commitment to working with other partners and
anchor institutions to benefit our local and regional
economy
• We want our residents to benefit from the new jobs
being created through City Deal and other initiatives
• We want our residents to have the right skills to
benefit from new and emerging technologies
• We want Preston to be at the forefront of drone
technology
• We can explore how The Preston Model approach to
a co-operative drone centre can benefit all the
community
Why Flying High? LGA 5 July 2018
• Preston is the main centre in a wider Lancashire city
region that is the location of the largest cluster of
aerospace activity in the UK.
• The city is at the forefront of identifying and
developing civic drone applications, and is the home
of the ‘Civic Drone Centre’ - established by the
University of Central Lancashire (UCLan)
• Build capacity of existing SMEs and attract new
investment through exploring drone supply chains
and clusters
Preston City Council + FH LGA 5 July 2018
• Our work to date has involved discussions with the
Lancashire aerospace sector, existing public sector
drone users including the emergency services, and
joint working with colleagues from NESTA and the
other cities participating in the programme.
• We have been able to draw on the technology and
expertise available through the University’s Civic
Drones Centre to support this work
Preston City Council LGA 5 July 2018
• Officers from the city council have also been able to
suggest a number of areas where drones might be of
civic use and where further testing might be useful.
• These include things such as flood plain
assessment, regeneration or development surveying,
construction and building maintenance, medical
transfer and search and rescue applications.
Task Force LGA 5 July 2018
Priorities captured – e.g. ‘transport hub’, ’31K new homes’, ‘reduced journey times’, ‘regeneration’, ‘Ribble Link’.
Use cases generated - worked up initial list, shortlisted and added detail to chosen use case, hosted all Task Force and Stakeholder events. Continuing engagement with stakeholders, more to do in May/Early June
Gathered feedback on Use Cases – Strong support for city regeneration related drone uses. Looking at potential feasibility study with UCLan and construction leads.
Preston Drone Model – Investigating how the task force can complement each other in the longer term, looking at supply chain and future growth
List of Use Cases LGA 5 July 2018
Original set of 24 use-cases shortlisted to:
• Surveying for city regeneration
• Inspection of Utilities & Council Run
Estate
• Construction site monitoring
• Distribute city produce within city
• Missing persons’ search drones
• Monitor city air pollution
• Fast track medical supplies
• Maintenance monitoring drone
Selected Use Case LGA 5 July 2018
Surveying for city development
Using drones throughout a regeneration project lifecycle, particularly in early stages.
Using new M55 link road project as a case study.
How can surveying data be used to aid in planning and construction, to improve project delivery and save costs/avoid overruns
The fleet of drones, maintenance, operation and training would incur costs. Could sit with the council as service or with industry.
Could add to the skills of existing surveyors. Could create additional jobs for drone pilots working with them.
Stakeholder Workshop LGA 5 July 2018
Held 1st May hosted at UCLan – used Media Innovation Studio and a new teaching facility
Preston city priorities presented by PCC
Initial mini-drone hack to introduce non-tech stakeholders to potential drone use
Lots of idea creation aligned to top level city goals
‘Postcards from the future’ exercises completed – good engagement from the stakeholders and challenges identified.
Attendees from LAs, local firms (e.g. architects), task force members, aerospace staff from UCLan, MoD
Preston & FH LGA 5 July 2018
More work is planned as we gear up for a formal launch of the report
lying High "Shaping the Future of Drones in UK Cities" 23 July 2018
During the Spring we have been working on:
Focus groups (Roundtable exercises)
Emergency services workshop
Arts/Cultural ideas generation workshop facilitated by the Harris Museum
and UCLan
LCC’s Highways Engineers and Costain are both hugely enthusiastic
about using drones and supporting our user case
Preston and FH LGA 5 July 2018
More work is planned as we gear up for a formal launch of the report
lying High "Shaping the Future of Drones in UK Cities" 23 July 2018
During the Spring we have been working on:
Focus groups (Roundtable exercises)
Emergency services workshop
Arts/Cultural ideas generation workshop facilitated by the Harris Museum
and UCLan
LCC’s Highways Engineers and Costain are both hugely enthusiastic
about using drones and supporting our user case
Thank you
• Councillor Matthew Brown, Leader of Preston City
Council
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