Innovate UK Mobile App Project Extends oneTRANSPORT Reach to UK’s Second-Largest City
June 21 2016 - 3:00AM
Five public, private and academic partners have been awarded a
project by the UK's innovation agency, Innovate UK, to start
development and trial of the first commercial-grade travel
application based on an integrated transport initiative,
oneTRANSPORT.
The project, Smart Routing, is a novel multi-modal
device-centric public transport routing and monitoring system that
will use advance analytics and data caching to offer travel
information even under no connectivity. The collaborative project
will start on July 1, 2016 and will span 18 months aiming to create
a commercial grade fast-route-to-market mobile application – one of
the first commercial applications in the world to implement the
growing oneM2M™ standard.
The innovative project was proposed by five partners comprising
of the University of Aberdeen, Ayoupa, Birmingham City Council,
Caution Your Blast and InterDigital Europe. The project partners
will develop and trial an enhanced, personalized, end-to-end
real-time journey routing service using the oneTRANSPORT backend
system and data management model, which will also enable Local
Authorities to better understand transport users and have more
control over the data they produce. The goal of Smart Routing is to
deliver improved user experience, reduced industry and local
authority operational overheads and innovative new business
models.
“The Smart Routing project underscores how oneTRANSPORT can be
leveraged to position the transport industry at the forefront of
the Internet of Things,” said Alan Carlton, Vice President,
InterDigital Europe. “It also underscores Innovate UK’s role
as a global leader in driving smart city initiatives that can
benefit individuals, companies and regional authorities. As the
project’s platform provider, InterDigital looks forward to bringing
our IoT data and analytics expertise to this collaborative
project.”
Smart Routing is a part of Birmingham’s ambitious and detailed
smart city strategy that recently earned the city a ranking as the
third leading smart city in the UK. The ranking comes from a study,
commissioned by Huawei and conducted by Navigant Consulting, that
examined ten UK cities and established an index based on to their
perceived smart city strategy and smart city execution. In
addition to Birmingham, the city of Bristol was ranked second
within the UK Smart Cities Index for its Bristol is Open project.
InterDigital Europe has been involved as a founding member of
Bristol is Open, a joint venture between University of Bristol and
Bristol City Council to develop an open programmable city region,
since December 2015.
“Birmingham City Council sees Smart Routing as an excellent
opportunity to open existing data streams for the improvement of
resident’s transportation experience through the development of an
effective transport application,” said Nikki Spencer, Digital
Projects Manager, Birmingham City Council. “With six universities,
the highest level of startup entrepreneurship in the UK and a
regional economy of over $120 billion, Birmingham is committed to
leveraging modern technology to drive the development of the region
for the benefit of residents and companies, and this project is a
great example.”
oneTRANSPORT is an integrated transport initiative targeted at
transport authorities driven by a consortium of eleven partners
including InterDigital. The project integrates a multitude of
previously fragmented and isolated data assets and data services
into a holistic application that sets the foundation for more
efficient transportation systems for cities and travelers
alike.
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