Research & Innovation at The Floow

Leveraging real-world mobility data to help make transport safer, cleaner, and smarter.

Funded Projects

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“We leverage our unique supply of data to create powerful insights across many of the most urgent challenges facing society. These challenges include the push towards vision zero, tackling congestion, preparing for the transition to autonomous vehicles, improving the quality of the air we all breathe, and achieving the green energy transition. ”
— Dr. Sam Chapman, Innovation Director & Co-Founder, The Floow

Funding Bodies we have worked with

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Our Impact Channels

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    For Funded Research

    • Proven delivery across Horizon, UKRI, & public–private partnerships

    • Experience translating research into real-world pilots, tools, and impacts

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    For Industry

    • Research grounded in a unique large-scale dataset

    • Evidence towards understanding road risk, safety, compliance, and driver behaviour

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    For Cities, Authorities & Regulators

    • Supporting transport planners and policymakers with actionable insights.

    • Application towards Vision Zero, decarbonisation, and emissions goals

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Our Priorities

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    Driver Behaviours

    • Understanding how people move and behave

    • Network wide speeds, flows, mobile use and surrogate safety measures

    Have powered:

    • Behavioural models

    • Safety metrics

    • Traffic monitoring and measurement

    • Naturalistic driving data

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    Geospatial Analysis

    • Large-scale real-world mobility data

    • Aggregated mobility behavioural insights by road, neighbourhood, towns, and cities

    Have powered:

    • Traffic models

    • Road risk analysis

    • Emission models

    • AI predictive locational insights

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    New Mobility & Sensors

    • Safety, readiness and interaction of automated systems

    • Human–machine and mixed-fleet environments

    Have powered:

    • Safety assurance evidence

    • CAV Scenario libraries

    • Pilot evaluation frameworks

    • Exposure, conflict and outcome analysis

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    Data Sharing, Governance & Regulation

    • Secure, ethical, and scalable data use

    • Supporting compliance, public trust and formation of best practices

    Have powered:

    • Data governance models

    • Regulatory evidence

    • Standards alignment

    • FAIR principles and practices

From Evidence to Outcomes

Impact highlights:

Billions of kilometres of unique data collected globally

Analytic insights deployed at all geospatial scales

Real-world mobility behaviour and safety analysis

Global impacts changing cities, mobility, safety and lives

Evidence used to inform public policy, infrastructure, and new mobility

Analysis contributes towards safety interventions and regulation

  • The Floow has engaged in world-leading collaborative projects in Europe, the USA, and the UK.

  • The Floow understands the needs of different organisations and has experience working with SMEs, NGOs, government agencies, research bodies, and standards organisations.

  • The Floow has a unique and vast collection of mobility data.

  • The Floow operate in highly regulated markets globally. We frequently lead project compliance areas concerning data management, privacy, open science, and AI compliance management.

Experience & Delivery

Our partners value our experience in:

Collaboration Opportunities

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    Academic Partners

    “We work with world-leading scientists and research institutions to tackle the urgent challenges of today. We support unique and impactful academic research.”

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    Cities & Public Authorities

    “We work directly with both local and national government as well as associated arms-length agencies. We have contributed towards impactful use cases across the UK, EU and the USA”.

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    OEMs & Mobility Providers

    “We work with large OEMs, tier 1 suppliers, transport operators and service providers. We support development, validation, and in-use monitoring.”

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    Insurers & Regulators

    “We work with Insurers regulators and standards groups helping to inform safer and smarter mobility processes and regulation approaches.”

Research & Collaboration Enquiries

We’re always happy to discuss our latest project ideas with potential partners and stakeholders. We welcome conversations with any organisation that could benefit from our large scale mobility data, behavioural analysis, and project experience.

We are constantly working towards both bilateral and multi-partner funding calls from national or international funding bodies.

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