AMICABLE (Anti-microbial lightweight grab poles)

该项目将使用以前未曾结合的现有技术来实现公共交通使用的部件，这些部件将：\*采用经过验证的抗微生物材料，作为细菌的有效屏障，并帮助减少病毒传播(在某些情况下甚至消除它们)，帮助解决公共健康和客户感知问题；\*将这些材料纳入轻质结构可回收复合材料，将部件重量减少50%以上，从而减少排放，改善性能，并极大地增强环境和可持续发展证书；\*能够在英国生产这些部件，其数量和成本与目前进口的钢铁部件相当；和*有可以安装在新车上的部件，但也可以轻松且具有成本效益地将其改装到现有车辆上。这是一个巨大的、改变游戏规则的机会，可以提高严寒后公共交通的可接受性，具有巨大的国内和出口潜力。

This project will use existing technologies not previously combined to achieve components for public transport use that will:\*Incorporate proven anti-microbial materials that act as an effective barrier against bacteria and help reduce viral transmission (even eliminate them in some cases), helping both with public health and customer perception issues;\*Incorporate these materials into lightweight structural recyclable composite materials that will reduce the component weights by over 50%, thereby reducing emissions, improving performance and greatly enhancing environmental and sustainability credentials;\*Be able to produce these components in the UK at volumes and costs equivalent to the currently imported steel components; and\*Have components that can be installed on new vehicles, but that can also be easily and cost-effectively retrofitted into existing vehicles.This is a massive, game-changing opportunity to improve the acceptability of public transport post-Covid, and has huge domestic and export potential.