TfL seeks private sector input on co-innovation framework

Transport for London (TfL) has issued an Expression of Interest (EOI) to gauge market feedback regarding the potential creation of an Innovation Collaboration Framework. TfL hopes the proposed framework will provide "rapid access to a number of corporations with research and development (R&D) facilities to help solve key problem statements and deliver its strategic and business objectives".

The framework will also provide a route to market that allows the transit operator and its partners to scale up viable co-created products and jointly commercialise them.

Speaking to Cities Today, TfL’s Head of Commercial Innovation, Rikesh Shah, said: “Quite often a lot of the R&D is carrie...