Live Labs - Transforming Local Places
ADEPT SMART Places Live Labs
The ADEPT SMART Places Live Labs Programme is a two-year, £22.9m project funded by the Department for Transport that will run until November 2021.
The advances made in digital technology have transformed how we live and work and will continue to have far-reaching impacts for some time to come. As Place Directors, ADEPT members need to be at the forefront of this rapid change: supporting communities, business and innovation in their areas.
In 2017, ADEPT created the SMART Places Research Programme to examine the opportunities and challenges facing the adoption of digital technology across the local highway network. Phase 1 of this programme culminated in the publication of ‘The route to the highways systems of the future' in October 2017.
Live Labs is Phase 3 of this programme (Phase 2 was a further development stage). Nine local authorities and their partners are working across eight innovative projects. These will develop new SMART approaches across communications, materials, energy solutions and mobility.
The ADEPT SMART Places programme is supported by ADEPT’s corporate partners: SNC-Lavalin’s Atkins business, EY, Kier, O2, Ringway and WSP. It launched on 31st May 2019.
More information on the progress of each Live Lab project will be published at key programme milestones.
The End of Year One report, published in November 2020, is available here.
The Live Labs Final Programme Review & Project Evaluations report, published in April 2022 is availble here.
The following White Papers have also been published:
- White Paper: Skills for Innovation Programmes
- White Paper: Adult Social Care
- White Paper: Decarbonisation
- White Paper: A New Approach to Monitoring & Evaluation
- White Paper: Digital Innovation in Local Road
- White Paper: Mobilising an Innovation Programme
You can also view the Live Labs blog or find Live Labs documents and watch our Women in Transport video here.
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Live Labs - Transforming Local Places — updates and resources
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Introducing Live Labs 2: decarbonising the local highways network | seminar dates
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Live Labs Blog: Staffordshire's Live Labs final view of the programme
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Live Labs Blog: the final view from Thames Valley Berkshire Live Labs
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Thames Valley Live Lab - final review
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Live Labs Blog: Buckinghamshire’s final round up & lessons learnt
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Live Labs Blog: the final view from A Smarter Suffolk
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Live Labs Blog - TfWM’s Live Lab experience
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Live Labs Blog – Central Bedfordshire's final wrap up
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Live Labs Blog: a final view from Cumbria
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Live Labs Blog: Kent's final round up
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Live Labs Blog: A Graduate Perspective
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Evaluating innovation – Live Labs publishes final Programme Review
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Live Labs Blog: the final programme review
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Live Labs Programme Review & Final Project Evaluations
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Department for Transport announces £30m for ADEPT’s Live Labs 2
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What skills do you need to fast track innovation across local highways? Live Labs White Paper #6
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Live Labs Blog: Skills for innovation programmes - the sixth White Paper
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Live Labs White Paper #6 – Skills for innovation programmes
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Thames Valley - lessons from a Live Lab
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Women in Transport - female leadership in the transport sector - video
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Live Labs Blog: Central Bedfordshire looks to the sun
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Live Labs Blog: Cumbria’s plastic roads - the journey so far
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Buckinghamshire Live Labs - last mile mobility
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Live Labs blog: Expo round up
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Live Labs Blog: Adult social care - the fifth white paper
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Live Labs Expo slide pack
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Live Labs White Paper #5 – how highways innovation could support adult social care
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ADEPT Live Labs White Paper #5 - Adult Social Care
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Live Labs Blog: A Smarter Suffolk's Hackathon
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TfWM Network Resilience Live Lab – testing behaviour change along Solihull A34 South
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Live Labs Blog – Air quality sensors and living walls in Staffordshire
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TfWM Network Resilience Live Lab - A smarter, better-connected transport system
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Buckinghamshire Live Lab - what can Covid-19 teach us about resilience in local transport?
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Buckinghamshire Live Lab - Last Mile Mobility In-depth Feasibility Study
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Buckinghamshire Live Lab - Executive Summary: Last Mile Mobility In-depth Feasibility Study
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Buckinghamshire Live Lab - Covid-19 Impacts on Local Transport
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Live Labs blog: Decarbonisation - the fourth White Paper
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Live Labs White Paper #4 – decarbonisation in action led by local authorities
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ADEPT Live Labs White Paper #4 - Decarbonisation
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Live Labs Blog: Power Road Installation
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TfWM Network Resilience Live Lab Newsletter - issue 3 | September 2021
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Atkins - supporting digital evolution
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Cumbria Live Lab - trials with Shell a first for Europe
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Live Labs Commissioning Board - the power of partnership
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Live Labs Blog: Kent takes flight!
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Live Labs updated slide deck - July 2021
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Transport for West Midlands Live Lab - a deep dive into the personas of the travelling public
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TfWM Network Resilience Live Lab Newsletter May 2021
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Thames Valley Live Lab - the air that we breathe
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Smarter Suffolk meets Canadian technology
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Live Labs White Paper #3 – a new approach to monitoring & evaluation
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Live Labs blog: Monitoring & Evaluation - a new approach
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ADEPT Live Labs White Paper #3 - Monitoring & Evaluation
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Live Labs Blog: reaching SMEs with outcome based procurement
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Leighton Buzzing! Live Labs launch the UK's first kinetic walkway
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Humidity sensing in Suffolk … and on the International Space Station!
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Live Labs - is it time to look at local government in a new light?
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Live Labs digital innovation gains showcased in White Paper #2
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ADEPT Live Labs White Paper #2 - Digital Innovation in Local Roads
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Live Labs Blog: Cumbria’s drive towards a circular economy
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Live Labs Blog: Connected Places Catapult last mile mobility study
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TFWM Network Resilience Live Lab Newsletter- Issue 1
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Live Labs - presentation by Programme Director Giles Perkins to ADEPT SE Board
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E-bikes and E-scooters in the Live Labs - some wheely good progress!
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Live Labs Blog: Embracing Virtual! ADEPT Live Labs Expo
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Live Labs Blog: Buckinghamshire partnership boosts enLight’s growth, despite pandemic
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ADEPT Live Labs Expo – transforming local places
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Transforming local places – ADEPT’s Live Labs innovation programme End of Year One report
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ADEPT SMART Places Live Labs Programme – End of Year 1 report
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Live Labs Blog: Top Marks for Collaboration
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Live Labs - White Papers
7 October 2020 -
White Paper captures initial learnings of SMART innovation programme
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ADEPT Live Labs White Paper #1 - Mobilising an Innovation Programme
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Live Labs Blog: Getting ready for winter
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Live Labs Blog: Kent goes international
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Live Labs Blog: bringing innovation to Victorian streetlighting
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Live Labs blog: Impacts, changed thinking and unexpected opportunities during Covid-19
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Live Labs Blog: Buckinghamshire lights up
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Live Labs blog: Birmingham test-bed for innovative video analytics
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Live Labs blog: Positive partnerships with West Midlands Police
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Suffolk Live Labs: all about that data
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CIHT podcast on Future Mobility
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ADEPT’s Live Labs launched - £22.9million SMART Places programme goes live
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ADEPT Conferences
29 March 2019 -
Digital innovation: the route to the highways systems of the future