We are very excited to announce that Transreport, one of the companies to come through London Midland Labs has won a contract with the Rail Delivery Group. The contract is to roll out a “life-changing” app that can track disabled rail users in real-time which will be will be rolled out nationwide. London Midland Labs was the first iteration of the Billion Journey Project and and this contract with the RDG is a great demonstrator of success for these innovation programmes by Go Ahead. Here is the article from the BBC:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45656560
https://www.raildeliverygroup.com/media-centre/press-releases/2018/469774616-2018-09-28.html
Here is Jay (in the Blue shirt on the left of the 3) talking about his experiences with London Midland labs and why programmes like The Billion Journey Project are an essential function in offering opportunities to SMEs with great ideas and technologies to get into the rail industry.
