Services

MXT produce interactive simulations for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs). Understanding planning applications can be challenging. Our work is to transform your existing data into intuitive simulations for diverse stakeholders ranging from members of the public and policy makers to designers, engineers and operational teams.

Benefits spanning the project life cycle

Enhance Communication

Engagement is more impactful when you demonstrate your thinking visually, audibly and experientially.

Deliver key messages about client scheme requirements
Free-to-roam, data led environments build trust that a visualisation is a transparent reflection of what’s to come
Gain insight into customer sentiment through in-built analytics

Improve Planning

We provide a safe, repeatable digital project twin for operations teams to address uncertainty in decision-making, conduct scenario planning and develop immersive training programs.

Cost Saving

Our software recycles and reuses existing data and delivers new digital assets that add value throughout the project lifecycle.

Designed for accuracy at speed

MXT’s semi-automated approach combines geospatial and physical sciences with game and film technologies to generates assurable environments, that can be delivered at pace.

Natural Environment

MXT are specialists in transforming geographic information into natural and believable computer-generated imagery.

Our environmental workflow incorporates data from both environmental impact assessments and national surveys.

Combined, these resources underpin the generation of natural landscapes that visualise, terrain, land use, ecology and archaeology information.

Built Environment

MXT specialise in preparing our clients’ Building Information Modelling (BIM) for interactive use, collaborating with engineers and architects to realise a project’s design ambitions for public consultation. Post-decision, we efficiently handle detailed design updates and extend value, during delivery, by using our environments and assets in operational contexts.

Road User Modelling

Transport schemes are designed to make customer journeys safer, greener, quicker, and more reliable. The most impactful way of communicating those benefits is to show those customers how their journeys will change.

MXT is the first and currently the only UK government provider to combine building information and traffic modelling into a single solution. This unique approach offers customers a complete and immersive view of a projects journey time and congestion improvements.

Our interactive mobility simulations ingest standard two-dimensional, origin-destination data and return believable, three-dimensional results; faithfully recreating the physics, graphics and traffic management of real transport environments.

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MXT’s vehicle simulator was designed working alongside the UK Government company National Highways. It is a virtual validation solution to study the many circumstances that affect the performance of drivers and road transport systems and it does so in a safe, repeatable environment.

Human factors research

The safety and satisfaction of road users is impacted by their interaction with vehicle and road transport technologies.

By examining how drivers use proposed, and existing, transport systems through the measurement of distraction, fatigue and impairment factors. We can:

Examine the attitudes and behaviour of drivers in a safe and controlled environment
Test and measure drivers’ performance
Inform legislation, transport policy, and road technology innovation

Simulation Hardware

MXT driving simulation can be deployed across different platforms. The first incorporates our own compact motion platform and advanced mixed reality headset. The second is an “At Desk” simulator rig for flexible onsite deployment and multi-site deployments.

Whichever the most appropriate deployment hardware our driving simulation service delivers:

Highly realistic, compliant, infrastructure, assets, and delegate experience
Bespoke scenario simulations rapidly developed and implemented to your specifications
Testing of hypotheses and innovations under the same conditions
Close control of scenarios providing robust evidence of cause and effect
Safe testing of emergency situations
Alignment with Department for Transport’s “Pilots and Trials” guidance
A reduction in the time to get to on-road live trials

Data Collection and Analysis

Our data collection and analysis integrates bespoke bio-metric and driver performance analysis with structured qualitative interviews delivered by Human-Centred Design (HCD) research partners.

Biometric Analysis

We incorporate eye tracking and physiological monitoring to gives an in-depth understanding of driver response.

Driver Performance

We measure how the piloted vehicle behaves and how it interacts with surrounding traffic.

Sentiment research

We collaborate with industry partners to provide a structured qualitative research component to enable an holistic understanding of driver behaviour.

Scenario Development

The simulator’s underlying software is composed of a set of modular, interlinked, applications. These applications are designed to support MXT’s work by enabling the efficient recreation of compliant UK road networks and traffic simulations.

This means we can routinely produce virtual road environments and scenarios that are faithful to their real-world counterparts.

Games technologies, simulation, transform scenario planning, learning and development. MXT’s intuitive, interactive, and immersive simulations are cost-effective, flexible, and memorable. They are deliverable at scale, offering effective results throughout your organisation, into your partners and other key stakeholders.

Digital Rehearsals

MXT’s simulation capabilities and models are used to enable road-transport planning, human-centred design, operational exercises, inductions, planning, and training. One single model, such as those MXT produce for tunnels, can be used for multiple use cases ranging from maintenance operations through to emergency planning and can host an array of our simulation capabilities from traffic flows to cyber attacks, from asset locations to data representations.

Simulated exercises enable participants to build procedural knowledge and confidence, in their roles, in a safe and repeatable environment before being subjected to the stresses and risks of a costly, one-and-done, live rehearsal.

MXT’s networked software architecture enables scenarios to simulate the division between responders who need to communicate, and be coordinated, in complex environments. These are great facilitators of collaboration between stakeholders such as infrastructure operators and the emergency services.

Soft Skills Training

Immersive experiences, especially in virtual reality, are very effective for equipping your people with toolsets of soft skills: empathy, resilience, and the ability to manage through change.

Memorable

Emotion has a substantial influence on our cognitive processes, including perception, attention, learning, memory, reasoning and problem solving. By forming deeper, emotional, connections to the learning material, MXT’s solutions can achieve increased information retention compared to traditional methods. Higher retention also means learners may need less frequent refreshers.

Enjoyable

MXT has found that our delegates find interactive, immersive, problem-based training to be more enjoyable than traditional classroom-based learning methods.

We wanted our learners to feel like their time was spent doing something valuable and enjoyable. If learners feel that training is effective, it leads to improved employee satisfaction and retention.

Flexible

People are our clients’ most valuable asset. Having teams travel to attend (often) off-site, in person, training can be disruptive and difficult. It is also costly.

Digital and cloud-based-delivery is flexible to remote and hybrid working environments. MXT’s solutions are delivered peripatetically, whether that is remote, to a person’s home or their place of work.