#brumdatahackRecap, Results, Resolutions

Teresa Jolley, Creative Director, DEFT153 Ltd

Plan

- Introductions – who/role/interest- Recap - Results- What the teams created- Resolutions – what’s next- Q+A / discussion

Recap...

Three organisations need help with their data challenges...

• Have live traffic flow and journey time data across Birmingham City council at 5 minute intervals, based on Urban Traffic Management and Control (UTMC) data, live car parking data and automatic detection of traffic incidents. 

• Want to publish openly, and build on work already done on open standards through European funded projects (Opticities, Open Transport Net). 

• Need to understand priorities for use and application of this data, to plan evolution of open source platform, and prioritise what data is published.

• Have access to public transport information, working in partnership with the public transport operators. 

• Want to understand impacts on the road network during incidents, scheduled maintenance and HS2 construction work. Use this to help encourage modal shift. 

• Need to bring together datasets to estimate journey time impacts to develop targeted communication to the network users.

• Have detailed plans of vehicle movements during the construction phase of HS2. 

• Want to understand what other public or private projects may impact the road network that HS2 must take account of, for example – tram extension, motorway upgrades. 

• Need to find out what data sets are useful to share to reach HS2’s goals and how the results can be presented visually. 

...they asked local SME’s, innovation funders and open data experts to assist...

We asked organisations to donate their datasets and expertise...

http://deft153.com/birmingham-highways-data-challenge-2016/datasets/

...designed a two-day event with local and national support...

...and brought together skills and interest to prototype solutions

Results...

Organisations learn and evolve

Ian Owen

Transport and Technology Lead and BIM champion

Mott MacDonald

We discover passionate people with skills already in the sector

Tom Forth’s Bus Tracker“In the future I'd like to run this service all day and night and in every major city of the UK.

Buses are a big part of making our cities more pleasant and more productive places to live and work. We need to understand why people don't use them and change them so that they will.”

http://www.tomforth.co.uk/bustracker/

SME’s improve their services

Build on work already done

http://www.opentransportnet.eu/web/birmingham/traffic-flow

5 prototype solutions1. Birmingham City Open Data Under

Threat 2. HS2 HGV Traffic Heat Map3. Brake-Thru4. A Breath of Fresh Air5. Birmingham Bus Tracker

http://deft153.com/birmingham-highways-data-challenge-2016/hack-teams/

Do better next time• Engage with more universities and SME’s whose

work / skills are complementary to the challenges faced

• Provide much greater support to access, understand and use the available datasets.

• Attract more people with coding/design/data skills from within the highways and transport sector.

Resolutions...

• Take the data into universities, with a masterclass approach to help students connect with real life challenges, and identify skillsets (e.g. developers) to work with industry on future collaborations.

• Create a regional hub for West Midlands data and open, collaborative working, where individuals and organisations (universities, SME’s, corporates, professional institutions) can learn skills in data visualisation, coding and analysis and collaborate to solve the region’s key transport challenges.

• Prototype the basis for a national (UK wide) ongoing sustainable model for the exchange of highways data (HighwaysAPI), and establish foundations for its shared public / private / community not-for-profit management and direction.

Existing associations around transport data / Intelligent Mobility at Innovation Birmingham Ltd

Partners:

Projects:•Birmingham in Real Time (BiRT)• Big Data Corridor

SME’s:

Innovation Engine

SMESME

SME

SME’s

Transport Incubator, iCentrum

Challenges

Funders:

Transport organisatio

ns  

• Engage SME’s

• Evidence collaboration

• Innovate

Funding bodies

wanting to:

• Support economic growth

• Encourage Innovation

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-Events-Training-Networking-Collaboration-Media support-Workshops

SME’s, challenges, datahub, national networks

Facilitation of national, open, collaborative UK-wide standards for highways data (HighwaysAPI)Regional prototype in West Midlands

Venue, support

SME

Towards a Centre of Excellence for Highways and Transport Innovation in West Midlands

Plus you and others.....

Discussion /Questions