CAM Pathfinder: Feasibility Studies 2
Award: Share of up to £1.5 million
Programme: Innovate UK
Opens: 10 October 2025
Closes: 26 November 2025
Overview
The Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) Pathfinder programme aims to strengthen the UK’s position as a first mover in Europe for commercial deployment of CAM services. The competition will fund feasibility studies that produce detailed business cases for early commercial opportunities in driverless mobility, helping companies assess investment readiness or identify remaining barriers.
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £1.5 million across up to eight projects, focusing on commercial deployment without safety drivers in defined UK locations.
Projects should build towards operational CAM services that deliver economic productivity, job creation, and supply-chain growth while ensuring safety, security, and regulatory engagement.
Eligibility
Projects must develop robust business cases demonstrating feasibility and commercial potential for Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) services. Each project must:
- Produce a business case enabling clear investment decisions or defining required next steps.
- Focus on CAM operations without safety drivers, identifying UK economic and job impacts.
- Quantify benefits for the UK CAM supply chain and linkages to technology providers.
- Deliver a closeout report for review with Zenzic before final payment.
- Be led by a deployer or operator of a CAM service.
- Engage regulators and technology developers to ensure readiness.
- Identify technology gaps in the UK ecosystem.
Limited technology trials are allowed only where needed to generate data for feasibility.
Terminology must align with BSI Flex 1890 v6.0:2025-03.
Exclusions
Innovate UK will not fund projects that:
- Develop system/subsystem-level business cases not tied to service delivery.
- Are technology feasibility, industrial research, or experimental development projects.
- Relate to rail, air, or marine vehicles.
- Use micro goods vehicles, indoor/pavement robots, or Level 3 automation or lower (per SAE J3016).
Funding Costs
- Total funding: Share of £1.5 million.
- Project Duration: Last 6–9 months.
Key Dates
- Closes: 26th November 2025
