Pilot Fund

About the fund

Guidance changes streets only when someone builds to it. The Pilot Fund supports the first builds and the companies that can repeat them, so that a design proven on one route can be bought and built on the next.

The fund supports two kinds of work:

• Companies whose products or services put design guidance into practice, from paving and kerb suppliers to operators of shared bicycles.
• Pilots on defined routes and sites, built with a state government, agency or university that owns the street.

How funding works

• Grants for design and preparation work.
• Recoverable grants, where a pilot is expected to generate revenue.
• First-loss funding, where a build needs outside finance, so that lenders and investors can take part alongside us.
• Funding released on adoption, paid when an agency or company takes the design on.

Who can apply

Companies that build, operate or finance infrastructure, and state governments and agencies with a site or route to pilot. The fund supports builds that follow design guidance from the Research Fund.

Have a site, a route or a product to pilot? Contact us.