European investors are finally seeing the value in innovative green solutions. And nowhere is there a greater need to introduce environmentally friendly technologies than the fastest growing source of global emissions: the transportation industry. As countries, cities and businesses around the world are making strong sustainability pledges, a rush of green transport startups has arrived to workRead More
Tell us about your entrepreneurial journey and why you founded Viva? The journey started back in 2011, when I met my cofounders while designing, building and racing a solar-powered car. It was a student-run project, done in our spare time around our degrees – in which we raised £500,000, built a road-legal experimental vehicle whichRead More
TfGM chooses Viva to deploy AI-controlled smart junctions to optimize traffic networks. There has been a nation-wide boom in the number of cyclists since the Covid-19 pandemic took hold. With people avoiding public transport when getting around towns and cities, and the daily commute changing for many in the longer term, innovation in transportation isRead More
Understanding the impact of changing street layouts on modal shift behavior to improve active transportation. Challenge We are seeing more and more temporary street layouts popping up in and around cities across the UK. London alone has 50+ pavement widening schemes in addition to cycle lanes, street closures and reduced speed zones. With the helpRead More
London, UK; 30th July 2020: Viva, the UK-based transport AI company, has been chosen by dozens of UK councils to improve their Active Transportation insight for people returning to work during the COVID-19 crisis. The company’s artificial intelligence anonymously captures, classifies and tracks live transport usage, 24/7, via sensors placed in major towns andRead More
Viva have been awarded a grant from Innovate UK for their work in support of UK councils to monitor anonymous social distancing via camera feeds across 16 of the UK’s towns and cities. Since the Government announced the Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020, and the associated social distancing measures, there has been a need toRead More