The TRANStech Awards
The TRANStech Awards Finalists

Scroll down to see the finalists for the inaugural TRANStech Awards.

The TRANStech Awards recognise people and organisations designing and using technology to improve our transport system. They reward excellence and achievement in established and emerging areas of mobility and transport, and celebrate positive impacts on people, the environment and our social fabric.

The TRANStech Awards 2019 attracted over 130 entries from across categories encompassing breakthroughs, impacts, experiences and game changers and from automotive vehicles, artificial intelligence, future street infrastructure, cycle safety products and micro-mobility.

Every entry was assessed by a jury made up of experts from across the transport, automotive and technology sectors and has drawn up a shortlist of finalists from which the winners will be selected.

 

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Breakthrough Awards

Breakthrough Awards – Technology on the move

Category Sponsors: Karhoo

Celebrating the innovations in technology to improve how we travel.

Data Platform Provider of the Year Award

Finalists in this category:

AppyWay - (Formerly Appyparking) - Mapper: Traffic orders made ready for mobility.

Mapper is the world’s first integrated solution for digital traffic orders and open, standardised kerbside data. Developed in partnership with three local authorities and funded by Innovate UK, Mapper was created for the public sector, with the public sector.

City Science - Cadence: Modern, Transport Modelling Data Platform.

Cadence is a comprehensive suite of modern modelling, analytics and visualisation tools for users to quickly and collaboratively plan, build, analyse and visualise transport impacts under a range of future projections and scenarios, utilising a range of datasets to ensure maximum context and increase modelling accuracy.

Fluidtime - FluidHub: The technical standard in the MaaS ecosystem

FluidHub is the platform for MaaS, that facilitates the integration and standardization of transport services and the management of data, users and accounts on a MaaS platform.

London Borough of Croydon - ARC-GIS: Collaboration of Data from Utilities and Croydon Borough.

A ESRI based joint mapping tool with planned link-up with the GLA IMA project to allow realtime updates of planned works data between the local authority, GLA and participating utilities. Relevant high-level data to be shared with sat-nav apps and LB Croydon website.

Stage Intelligence - BICO: Artificial Intelligence, Operators and Making Intelligent Micro-Mobility a Reality

The BICO AI integrated app allows micro-mobility scheme operators an opportunity to see their fleet in real-time and dynamically re-balance their fleet on the go.

wejo - wejo ADEPT

A secure, compliant and flexible IoT platform that makes sharing and accessing huge volumes of data simple and safe, whilst at same time maximises the intrinsic value.

West Midlands Combined Authority - Singleview

The SingleView platform will provide visibility of the regional transport delivery programme, the major housing developments, the near-term transport works and the planned events that will impact the transport network in the West Midlands in one place. This will lead to coordinated investment and it will enable collaborative strategic planning between partners.

Zipabout

Zipabout's innovative data platform – powering seamless journeys through personalised two-way communications.

Autonomous Breakthrough of the Year Award

Finalists in this category:

Addison Lee  Group- MERGE Greenwich Project

Backed by UK government, the £1m, 12-month MERGE Greenwich project was delivered by an Addison Lee Group (ALG)-led consortium to simulate and assess the impact of an autonomous vehicle ride-sharing service, set in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

Oxfordshire County Council -  I-Hub: Enabling Emerging Transport Technologies

Enabling the use of autonomous vehicles in Oxfordshire through various projects including DRIVEN, OmniCAV, MultiCAV, MaasCAV and CAVL4R

Parkopedia - Reinventing Parking for Level-4 Autonomy

As the automotive industry rushes to full automation, parking is often overlooked. Parkopedia leads the Autonomous Valet Parking (AVP) consortium, which is building a system that navigates an autonomous vehicle to an open parking space, executes parking automatically and responds to return to driver summons.

The Floow - MOVE_UK: Realising Autonomous Insurance Risk Scoring

Greenwich based testbed within the Smart Mobility Living Lab region. The focus of the project is connected validation and verification of autonomous technology. The project includes Insurance understanding and processing for autonomy to enable real-world autonomous deployments.

The New Mobility Innovator of the Year Award

Finalists in this category:

Car & Away: The Innovator of the Airport Car Sharing Economy

Using  peer to peer car sharing, Car & Away is working directly with airports to create Virtual Capacity. By offering owners a new parking category that allows them to earn money through renting out their car whilst away, Car & Away free's up space that can be resold. 

Faxi & Toyota Financial Services - Faxi: incentivised data-driven carpooling for commuters

A solution to eradicate single occupancy vehicles, reduce emissions, traffic congestion and the need for parking. 

Fleetondeman- Mobilleo

A Mobility-as-a-Service app, specifically designed for business travellers. The result of a huge project that took years in the making, all modes of business travel can be booked on the platform; flights, hotels, car hire, car share, trains, ride hailing and more. 

Liftshare - Liftshare Scoping: Solving the nightmare that is commuter traffic

The first of its kind. An innovation in mapping sustainable travel for organisations: the Scoping Smart Mobility tool generates a list of multiple travel options each employee of a business could use to get to their place of work, and therefore helps our clients solve their mobility problems in their business.

LLC Intelligence Social Systems (ISS Digital) - Mosgorpass: The official Moscow passenger mobile application

The Mosgorpass helps passengers to use personal and public transport more efficiently and increases the level of comfort and safety of trips around the city. The application helps the city administration to optimize traffic management.

Nexans EVCS - Car sharing in the Ardennes

A project run in conjunction with the local authorities across the entire Ardenne region (mayors, deputy mayors and local councillors), Clem (the service provider for the car club management) and Gireve, the EMSP. There was also close collaboration with AVERE.

ShareNow - DriveNow: Innovation to Scale Carsharing in the UK

SHARE NOW (DriveNow) is a flexible carsharing service that has been operating in Greater London (9 boroughs) since December 2014. Since it started, SHARE NOW has grown from 210 to 720 shared vehicles, including 130 battery electric BMW i3s. The total number of people that have registered with the scheme so far is over 70,000. 

Zeelo - Zeelo: The Personalised Bus Service

From the ‘getting people out of cars people’ a personalised bus service on a mission to make shared transport a viable alternative to the car.

E-Mobility Progress Award

Finalists in this category:

Addison Lee Group - The all-electric fleets of the future – transforming urban mobility services for a clean city centre 

The Addison Lee Group/Audi pilot sees the new fully electric Audi e-tron incorporated into Group’s Tristar London fleet over a six-month period, with a view to the luxury SUVs being a permanent service offering. This is the first time that the e-tron has been approved and trialled as part of a UK based private hire vehicle fleet.

Cyc Lok - SMART Bike Locker System

The SMART Bike locker system is a short team, on-demand cycle storage system which can be managed remotely from a smartphone which is designed to negate bike theft and vandalism and encourage more people to cycle with peace of mind that their belongings are safe and secure.

Electric Zoo - Business Greening Service

Removing the guesswork whether a business should switch to electric vehicles. Demonstrating in real-time how much money a business would save, which EV's would be best suited for them,  what type of charge points/location where charge points should be located, in essence we are accelerating the uptake of EV's by business, which in turn will help showcase the transition to EV's by consumers, in the process highlighting all of the benefits of EV's  

Nexans EVCS - Car sharing in the Ardennes

A project run in conjunction with the local authorities across the entire Ardenne region (mayors, deputy mayors and local councillors), Clem (the service provider for the car club management) and Gireve, the EMSP. There was also close collaboration with AVERE.

Portsmouth City Council - ORCS: On-street Residential Chargepoint Scheme 

ORCS is thought to be the only pay as you go, lamp-column based on-street resident charging solution which benefits from designated parking pays, guaranteeing access to the charge points.

Judges Award: TRANStech Innovator of the Year Award

The TRANStech Innovator of the Year Award is a judge's special award where the judges will nominate an individual who has consistently made an outstanding contribution to the industry and represents a 'model of excellence'. 

 

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Impact Awards

Impact Awards – Transport for a better world

Rewarding how the use of technology makes transport better.

Street of the Future Award

Finalists in this category:

AppyWay - (Formerly Appyparking) - Smart City Parking Harrogate 

The Smart City solution is specifically designed to best serve the needs of those who need to park whilst providing a powerful kerbside management tool for local authorities to better manage and optimise their assets.

Char.gy - The on-street electric vehicle lamppost charging solution

An adaptable platform to deliver on-street EV charging solutions along with the public-facing digital application and the ‘back-office’ system for councils and parking providers to track and manage the workflow of each charging device.

Street Systems (Almere) - Newcastle Project

A series of proof of concept projects in Newcastle focused on the use of Machine Vision and IoT to gather data on movement in the City Centre, sitting alongside the largest deployment of Air Quality Sensors in the UK implemented by Newcastle Urban Observatory.  

Trueform Digital - Trueform Intelligent Wayfinding Systems 

Trueform's Intelligent Wayfinding Systems have been delivered UK wide including London (all 32 Boroughs), Birmingham, Manchester, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, York, Portsmouth, Southampton and Stoke. This is in addition to the promotion of active and connected travel at Schools, Colleagues and Universities, as we worked closely with both the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University in developing campus-wide intelligent SMART wayfinding. 

Urban Data Eye - Redistributing the Flow of Market Square

This project leverages machine learning algorithms, developed by Urban Data Eye, and urban design techniques to track and analyze pedestrian behaviour and activities distribution in the square. The proposed methodology yielded new types of data, currently unavailable at this level of precision in our cities, about people’s interactions with their urban environment without involving the collection of private and personal data, and produced new knowledge for PDP and the city of Pittsburgh.

Congestion Reduction Award

Finalists in this category:

Kerb Holdings Company Pty Ltd - Improving the Traveller Experience Using Kerb

Kerb is a global app which allows individuals and businesses to list their spaces for others to rent, while they are not in use. Kerb aims to optimise the use of underutilised space to reduce congestion that builds as drivers search for parking, decrease the cost of parking and improve the customer's experience when parking.

Living Streets - WOW Travel Tracker: reducing congestion outside school gates

The WOW Travel Tracker is an online tool which supports Living Streets' year-round challenge for schools: WOW. WOW rewards children who walk to school (or scoot, cycle or Park and Stride) at least once a week, with a monthly themed badge. Each day, as children enter the classroom, they record how they've travelled to school on the Travel Tracker website.

Nottingham City Council & TES Ltd - WPL scheme, innovative use of technology

The WPL scheme was introduced in Nottingham to not only constrain the growth in congestion that back in 2007 was costing the economy £160m per year, but most importantly to try and reduce pollution levels that were blighting the city. Nottingham is the first local authority to introduce a WPL scheme in the western hemisphere which is attracting huge interest nationally & internationally.

Pindar Creative - SALI: Make Your Own Map Portal

SALI (Semi-Automated Leaflet Interface) is an innovative online portal enabling establishments to generate personalised sustainable travel leaflets, featuring a site-specific map for their location. 

Trueform Digital - Smart Digital Cycle & Pedestrian Counter

Trueform’s SMART Digital Cycle & Pedestrian Counters help to promote active travel and healthy streets, leading to an increase in cycling and the key data gathered for investors to invest in new cycle lanes within their town or city.

Vivacity Labs - Smart Junctions

Smart Junctions is an Innovate UK-funded project which uses Machine Learning and Internet of Things technologies to dramatically improve traffic light optimisation, enabling more efficient movement of people and goods within our cities. The project began in June 2018 and runs until May 2021.

Open Data Award

Finalists in this category:

Agilysis - National Road Risk Mapping

Agilysis' online map and dashboard can be accessed on mobile devices and used to review collisions and risk rates on over 40,000 km of roads using data from the last six years.  The evidence is now being used to drive investment by local authorities, targeting resources at those roads that have the worst collision rates. 

Oxfordshire County Council - Open Oxfordshire: Cycle Infrastructure Evaluation (CIE)

The Open Oxfordshire: Cycle Infrastructure Evaluation (CIE) was conducted by Oxfordshire County Council’s Research and Innovation Department (iHUB) and was funded by the Open Data Institute (ODI). The project demonstrated how crowdsourcing can be used to generate open geospatial data for the benefit of local government, institutions, community organisations and the wider public.

London Borough of Croydon - ARC-GIS: Collaboration of Data from Utilities and Croydon Borough.

A ESRI based joint mapping tool with planned link-up with the GLA IMA project to allow realtime updates of planned works data between the local authority, GLA and participating utilities. Relevant high-level data to be shared with sat-nav apps and LB Croydon website.

Passenger Technology Group - Open data portals for public transport operators

Open Data portals which are complete with the source data that powers the journey planning functionality of a operator's website, including associated Open Street Map (OSM) data, timetables and departure boards.

Transport for London - Cycle Infrastructure Database

London’s new Cycling Infrastructure Database (CID) - the world’s largest and most comprehensive database of cycling infrastructure  - is intended to address our customers' barriers to cycling by providing open data to drive forward the development of products to help Londoners with clear and accurate information about cycling infrastructure, helping them plan cycle journeys with confidence. The CID is a core part of the TFL Cycling Action Plan, which sets out how TfL, boroughs and others will work together to make London the world’s best big city for cycling, and it will help deliver Vision Zero. 

Universities of Cambridge, Leeds, and Westminster - Propensity to Cycle Tool 

The Propensity to Cycle Tool (PCT) is a free, open-source tool for transport planning, with a focus on strategic cycleway network planning. It enables users to envision scenarios of 'cycling futures', at area, desire line, route and route network levels. The PCT uses innovative open source technology to present the results in a free, publicly available web application, and provides open access data downloads. The PCT has continuously evolved over the last three years to cover Wales, a school travel layer, and updates to the underlying route data. 

Air Quality Impact Award

Finalists in this category:

Islington Council - Electric vehicle charging point scheme

The Council has made a commitment to install 400 EV charging points before the end of 2022 and has also implemented emission-based parking fees to further encourage the switch to ultra-low emission vehicles. Pure electric vehicles are eligible for free resident parking permits and there is a sliding scale of permit fees dependant on the CO2 emission of the vehicle. Islington Council has also implemented diesel surcharge parking fees to discourage the use of diesel vehicles which have higher PM10 and NOx emissions which are harmful to human health

Islington Council & Traffic Environment Systems Ltd (TES) - ITF: Islington Traffic Flow

The Islington project is using an advanced version of the TES Small Blue Enforcement Camera combined with high quality pollution sensors to develop and demonstrate a self-funding solution for the management and improvement of air quality directly affected by road traffic in their urban environments

Kent County Council - Park and Pedal

Park & Pedal is a scheme that offers commuters and students an alternative way of completing the last mile of their journey. It opened at Wincheap Park & Ride site in Canterbury in June 2018. The scheme works by offering people the opportunity to ‘rent,’ free of charge, cycle parking within a secure cycle compound. People leave their cycles overnight in the compound, drive to the P&R and then pick up their bike to cycle the last leg of their journey. They can choose to use the scenic off-road Great Stour Way route, or the Park & Pedal signed road route. 

Liftshare - Reducing pollution with the largest car sharing scheme in the UK  

Making it easy for businesses to solve their parking chaos, increase active travel, improve workplace wellbeing and meet their sustainability goals by facilitating sustainable travel options for their employees with dedicated commuter liftsharing schemes and myPTP (personal travel plans, which include active travel options like walking and biking, along with buses too). 

Manchester City Council & Triangulum Project - Electric Mobility in Manchester

This aspect of the Triangulum project is focused on the procurement and implementation of electric-assist cargo bikes, and electric vehicles as part of the urban mobility within the Oxford Road Corridor innovation district of Manchester, across the estates of the project partners.  The Triangulum project is funded by the European Commission from 2014 - 2020. 

Nextbike - Bikes Replacing Cars in Major Cities

The installation of docked bike schemes across major towns and cities in the uk, providing last mile transport options investing in communities.

RingGo - Driving Cleaner Air with RingGo's Emissions Based Parking

Developed to meet the needs of City Councils who were coming under mounting pressure from the EU and WHO to improve air quality and reduce pollution.   The solution can be implemented within months and costs tens of thousands of pounds:  a far cry from the years and millions of pounds required to set up and run low and ultra-low emission zones (LEZ/ULEZ), which are commonly touted as the solution to poor air quality.  

Trueform Digital - Smart Digital Cycle & Pedestrian Counter

Trueform’s SMART Digital Cycle & Pedestrian Counters help to promote active travel and healthy streets, leading to an increase in cycling and the key data gathered for investors to invest in new cycle lanes within their town or city.

TRANStech Business of the Year Awards

Finalists in this category:

Clearview Intelligence

With over 40 years experience, Clearview provides data and intelligence to both network operators and road users. Our solutions aid route and roadworks planning; transform parking solutions; improve road user behaviour; reduce congestion and save lives.

Minicabit

Now the UK's largest comparison website and the 3rd most visited cab website, the minicabit platform enables online cab booking in over 550 cities & towns U.K. wide across several hundred licensed Private Hire Operators

SNAP 

SNAP was created in 2010 as a solution to modernise the haulage industry. SNAP Account was the pioneering service and has been extremely successful in benefitting the transport sector. SNAP have subsequently added additional services to their business and pride themselves on the technology which they have provided for the haulage industry to create greater efficiencies and cost savings.

Trueform Digital

A British SME, are leading supplier to the public transport industry internationally for over 40 years.  Operating at the forefront of innovation, design, manufacturing and transport technology, we provide integrated turnkey solutions for the manufacture, supply, installation and maintenance of all forms of passenger transport hardware, information display and communication technologies.

VPS Group

VPS Intelligent Transport Solutions team have created a suite of innovative systems to form its Smartzone Safety System for transport: Mobile Variable Message systems, Smart Tower CCTV, Journey Time solutions, Bridge Strike Prevention and body and dash camera systems that are integrated to provide a sophisticated blend of technologies.

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Experience Awards

Experience Awards - making travel better

Showcasing the innovative use of technology to improve transport.

Traveller Experience Award

Finalists in this category:

AppyWay - (Formerly Appyparking) - Smart City Parking Harrogate 

The Smart City solution is specifically designed to best serve the needs of those who need to park whilst providing a powerful kerbside management tool for local authorities to better manage and optimise their assets.

Masabi, Uber and RTD - Uber Transit Ticketing 

Uber transit ticketing has been enabled using Masabi’s Justride SDK, the first and only mobile ticketing software development kit (SDK) for public transportation, creating a seamless passenger experience combining transit and new mobility options. 

Minicabit

As the UK’s largest cab comparison platform, minicabit also powers online cab bookings for major airports and online travel platforms for over 550 UK towns & cities, across web and mobile.

Trueform Digital - Trueform Intelligent Wayfinding Systems
 
Trueform's Intelligent Wayfinding Systems have been delivered UK wide including London (all 32 Boroughs), Birmingham, Manchester, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, York, Portsmouth, Southampton and Stoke. This is in addition to the promotion of active and connected travel at Schools, Colleagues and Universities, as we worked closely with both the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University in developing campus-wide intelligent SMART wayfinding. 

Virgin Trains - Getting 'Back on Track' with Virgin Trains 

In 2019, our Technology Team delivered two amazing new systems to support our colleagues (Back on Track/BOT) and our customers (Track ‘n’ Travel) during a disruption.  These disruption management solutions are the first of their kind, not just in the rail industry, but globally. BOT and Track ‘n’ Travel allow us to communicate and engage with our people and customers like never before, removing existing communication barriers and enabling us to provide real-time, accurate information during disruption. 

Zipabout - Zipabout Connect

A unique two-way communications channel for the transport industry, delivering targeted, fully personalised real-time journey information directly to thousands of UK rail passengers.  

 

Safety & Security Improvement Award

Finalists in this category:

Broadcast Wearables - Safety Cycling Jersey with Auto LED

This is an IoT Intelligent Garment which can be triggered by Motion. It also has many application in Industrial and Infrasture Industries. Apart from this it can also be used to track Motion of the body for AR/VR Purposes. 

Cycling UK - Changing drivers' perspectives with virtual reality

Cycling UK's VR films address two of the most prevalent safety issues for cyclists - close overtaking and car-dooring – where a vehicle door is opened into the path of oncoming cyclists. A Cycling UK/YouGov survey (May 2018) found that cars overtaking too closely put 56% of adults in Great Britain off cycling, while 40% were put off by the risk of car-dooring.

DriverNet - DriverNet - Smart, Safe, Secure Mobility Systems

DriverNet is a new passenger and mobile workforce management system with modules which significantly improve safety, security and safeguarding when delivering services to the most vulnerable groups of people in our society.

London Borough of Croydon - Croydon Growth Zone Navigation App

The Navigation App is designed to be able to use sat-nav functionality to take HGVs bound for any of the sites within the Growth Zone. The App also comes with a full logistics suite as an option for the construction companies to use if they wish to do so. The companies can keep up-to-date with the location of inbound vehicles and can use the app to optimally plan their deliveries.

See.Sense - Safer and Smarter Cycling

See.Sense creates award-winning bike lights which give cyclists more visibility on their ride, and cities more information on their roads. Our lights (which are used by more than 40,000 cyclists across 70 countries) shine brightly both in daylight and at nighttime, and
react to moments when a cyclist may be at risk by automatically flashing brighter and faster. They don’t just make a cyclist saferthough. They give them a voice.

SNAP Access & Security - Strengthening security infrastructures to protect the safety of transport premises

SNAP Access & Security was created to combat the growing threat to the transport industry of robberies, crime and break-in disruptions at premises' across the UK.  The security technologies we supply and install protect revenue, reduce insurance premiums, reinforce site safety, deter criminal activity, maintain business reputations and reduce staff workload. The tech products we specialise in installing include ANPR Cameras, Barriers, Access Control, CCTV, Security Fencing and Payment Terminals.     

Subscription Service Provider Award

Finalists in this category:

Drover - Drover: Cars Made Easy

Drover is an online marketplace that matches customers looking for short-medium term car rental options (1-24 months) with a range of vehicle suppliers. 

Kerb Holdings Company Pty Ltd - KERB as a Subscription Service Provider

Kerb is a global app which allows individuals and businesses to list their spaces for others to rent, while they are not in use. Kerb aims to optimise the use of underutilised space to reduce congestion that builds as drivers search for parking, decrease the cost of parking and improve the customer's experience when parking.

Toyota (GB) PLC - Lexus One Subscription Service

Lexus One is an all-inclusive, monthly subscription service that provides access to the Lexus Self Charging Hybrid range. Operated in partnership with Drover, Lexus One enables you to experience Lexus in a different way, providing flexibility and ease so you can change vehicle as your lifestyle does.

The Electric Experience Award

Finalists in this category:

Char.gy - The on-street electric vehicle lamppost charging solution

An adaptable platform to deliver on-street EV charging solutions along with the public-facing digital application and the ‘back-office’ system for councils and parking providers to track and manage the workflow of each charging device.

Islington Council - Electric vehicle charging point scheme

The Council has made a commitment to install 400 EV charging points before the end of 2022 and has also implemented emission-based parking fees to further encourage the switch to ultra-low emission vehicles. Pure electric vehicles are eligible for free resident parking permits and there is a sliding scale of permit fees dependant on the CO2 emission of the vehicle. Islington Council has also implemented diesel surcharge parking fees to discourage the use of diesel vehicles which have higher PM10 and NOx emissions which are harmful to human health.

Portsmouth City Council - ORCS: On-street Residential Chargepoint Scheme 

ORCS is thought to be the only pay as you go, lamp-column based on-street resident charging solution which benefits from designated parking pays, guaranteeing access to the chargepoints.

Via & Mercedes - ViaVan 

ViaVan, the joint venture between Via and Mercedes-Benz Vans in Europe, has built the platform and technology for shared, electric vehicles (EVs) to operate efficiently as part of a scaled fleet-based ridesharing service. ViaVan has built unique features into its routing algorithm to maximize the range of electric vehicles and to direct them to charging stations when they are in need, all while taking into account passenger pickups and drop offs.

TRANStech Partnership of the Year Award

 

Finalists in this category:

AppyWay - (Formerly Appyparking) - Mapper: Traffic orders made ready for mobility.

Mapper is the world’s first integrated solution for digital traffic orders and open, standardised kerbside data. Developed in partnership with three local authorities and funded by Innovate UK, Mapper was created for the public sector, with the public sector.

Buckinghamshire County Council, Innovate UK, Department for Transport et al - Transport Data Initiative

The TDI was created with the aim of combatting problems facing the transport data scene in both the public and private sector. These issues included, but were not limited to, how data was being stored in silos, and that there was no deal of collaboration between the organisations of opposing and same sector. 

City of York Council - Eboracum Project

The DfT funded Eboracum project in the city of York explores the use of new vehicle centric data sources in better signal setting. These data sources are primarily floating vehicle data supplied by INRIX and wifi MAC addresses harvested using IDT’s roadside beacons. A smartphone app developed by the Ian RoutledgeConsultancy uses the OBD2 port on the vehicle to provide additional data such as emissions faults in a proof of concept. In a sister project, Middlesex University are testing ITS-G5 beacons and in vehicle units to further compare the properties of the various data sources. 

Esoterix Ltd  & First Bus - MYFIRSTMILE

MYFIRSTMILE was a first-last mile flexible extension to the core First network in Bristol. The service connected across the established hub-and-spoke bus network accessing areas that can’t be served by traditional buses because of narrow streets. It saved passengers up to 60 minutes on an end-to-end journey by public transport to key employment destinations and Bristol Parkway; as well as serving short-hop journeys between residential and local shopping areas and amenities.

Faxi & Toyota Financial Services - Faxi: incentivised data-driven carpooling for commuters

A solution to eradicate single occupancy vehicles, reduce emissions, traffic congestion and the need for parking. 

Millbrook & AutoAir  - Millbrook and AutoAir partner for innovation 

The Autoair consortium was formed in response to a DCMS call for the establishment of 5G vertical sector testbeds and trials in 2017. It is a wide ranging, cross sector partnership formed from several UK-based companies, bringing together the radio, cellular and transport industries into one technological tour de force deployment at Millbrook in Bedfordshire. The consortium is lead buy Dense Air, a UK-based Neutral Host Operator of networks. Members are as follows:

• Airspan Networks provider of 4G LTE and 5G NR radio access network small cells

• McLaren Applied Technologies – supplier of high speed vehicle telematics

• Blu Wireless – mmWave mesh and high speed access

• University of Surrey – 5G technology

• Quortus – 4G and 5G Core networks

• Millbrook – proving ground, 700 acres, controlled test environment

• Real Wireless – Network planning and business analysis

• Celestia – 5G Antennas

ViaVan and Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) - BerlKönig: on-demand shared public transport in Berlin

The BerlKönig provides Berliners with an efficient, affordable and convenient on-demand shared public mobility service. In the first 10 months the service delivered more than 750,000 rides, and more than 77% of BerlKönig rides have two or more passengers in the vehicle at the same time, up to 94% at peak times. An average of 44% of bookings were pooled with other bookings, even up to 75% in peak times.

VPS Group & HW Martin - Low Bridge Strike Prevention

Lorries or buses strike a low bridge in the UK nearly 2,000 times a year, almost five times a day. Bridge collisions by over-height vehicles lead to road and rail delays, heavy congestion and the consequential environmental hazard from fumes and emissions, and sometimes derailment and bridge collapse. In the worst cases they can cause injuries and fatalities. VPS and HW Martin worked to blend technologies together and design a system that not only was endorsed by Highways England, but would successfully avoid any low bridge strikes during the roadworks. 

West Midlands Combined Authority - Singleview

The SingleView platform will provide visibility of the regional transport delivery programme, the major housing developments, the near-term transport works and the planned events that will impact the transport network in the West Midlands in one place. This will lead to coordinated investment and it will enable collaborative strategic planning between partners.

 

 

 

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Game Changer Awards

Game Changer Awards - shaping the future of transport

Recognising the how the future of transport is being shaped by technology.

City Region Award

The City Region Award recognises city regions which are achieving connected, seamless and easy to use multi-modal urban mobility though solutions enabled by combining transport and technology.

Finalists in this category:


City of York Council - Eboracum Project

The DfT funded Eboracum project in the city of York explores the use of new vehicle centric data sources in better signal setting. These data sources are primarily floating vehicle data supplied by INRIX and wifi MAC addresses harvested using IDT’s roadside beacons. A smartphone app developed by the Ian Routledge Consultancy uses the OBD2 port on the vehicle to provide additional data such as emissions faults in a proof of concept. In a sister project, Middlesex University are testing ITS-G5 beacons and in vehicle units to further compare the properties of the various data sources. 


Oxfordshire County Council -  I-Hub Innovation Team: Supporting a Smarter Oxfordshire

For the last 6 years the IHUB team has supported, delivered and deployed mobility & innovation projects as part of Oxfordshire County Council. The team has developed a significant local, regional, national and international network of business, academic and public sector partner organisations.

The team has grown by 500% over the last 5 years, without an increase in core OCC budget, leveraging EU & UKRI funding to deliver tangible benefit to the region and inward investment whilst improving OCC's operational delivery. With a combined project portfolio value of more than £100M, the IHUB continues to grow, moving into new areas of delivery, such as energy, adult and social care, planning and infrastructure. Our approach to this has been to leverage experience with emerging technologies in disparate sectors to cross pollinate, driving efficiencies through design thinking and application.


The service has built up a unique CAV expertise, focused on supporting safe trielling of technology and knowledge exchange to make Oxfordshire and the UK ready for CAV, this approach has been integral to making Oxfordshire the heart of the UK's emerging CAV sector with strong links to our CAV companies in Oxfordshire, such as Oxbotica, Street Drone, Arrival, ORI and RACE Culham. 

West Midlands Combined Authority - West Midlands: Future Mobility Zone

The vision behind the Future Mobility Zone is to deploy new mobility services that work seamlessly for travellers, creating a better connected region that enables a positive change in the lives of millions of people. The Future Mobility Zone programme enables industry partners within a broad eco-system (from automotive OEMs, supply chain and infrastructure technology providers, telecoms, data science) to collect real-world performance data. This can help them refine products and services. The principle will be to develop a system which works with an existing commercially operated network and will deliver on-going financially sustainable better outcomes for all travellers and businesses.

Rural Innovation Award

 

Finalists in this category:

Karhoo - SNCF Project - Mon Chauffeur “First & Last Leg Travel”

The Mon Chauffeur project for SNCF The French State-owned railways company collaborated with Karhoo to deliver ground transportation throughout France, straight from their ticket booking website.

Kent County Council & Renault Trucks - #SwitchToElectric 

Lots of electric mobility schemes are centered in urban settings, however, the mission for this project was to unearth meaningful data from a rural operation. Kent County Council (KCC) therefore teamed up with Renault Trucks to introduce its first electric minibus. The vehicle has been specifically implemented in a rural setting and will  help disabled and vulnerable people

Nexans EVCS - Car sharing in the Ardennes

A project run in conjunction with the local authorities across the entire Ardenne region (mayors, deputy mayors and local councillors), Clem (the service provider for the car club management) and Gireve, the EMSP. There was also close collaboration with AVERE.

Last Mile Innovator Award

Finalists in this category:

Esoterix Ltd & First Bus  - MYFIRSTMILE

MYFIRSTMILE was a first-last mile flexible extension to the core First network in Bristol. The service connected across the established hub-and-spoke bus network accessing areas that can’t be served by traditional buses because of narrow streets. It saved passengers up to 60 minutes on an end-to-end journey by public transport to key employment destinations and Bristol Parkway; as well as serving short-hop journeys between residential and local shopping areas and amenities.

Ford Motor Company & Gnewt by Menzies Distribution - Warehouse on Wheels

A new digital delivery service being trialled by in partnership by Ford and Gnewt by Menzies Distribution (Gnewt) to trial a new digital parcel courier service designed to help reduce congestion and offer faster deliveries. 

Grid Smarter Cities - Kerb: Intelligent Kerbside Management

‘Kerb’ is a patented, dynamic, Intelligent Kerbside Management Solution for cities developed by Grid Smarter Cities. Kerb allows commercial vehicle operators to opt to book and pay to park/unload on previously unavailable kerb space in high density, urban areas on Virtual Loading Bays (VLBs) or to extend loading periods in time restricted locations with Virtual Loading Extensions (VLEs).

Kent County Council - Park and Pedal

Park & Pedal is a scheme that offers commuters and students an alternative way of completing the last mile of their journey. It opened at Wincheap Park & Ride site in Canterbury in June 2018. The scheme works by offering people the opportunity to ‘rent,’ free of charge, cycle parking within a secure cycle compound. People leave their cycles overnight in the compound, drive to the P&R and then pick up their bike to cycle the last leg of their journey. They can choose to use the scenic off-road Great Stour Way route, or the Park & Pedal signed road route. 

London Borough of Croydon - Croydon Growth Zone Navigation App

The Navigation App is designed to be able to use sat-nav functionality to take HGVs bound for any of the sites within the Growth Zone. The App also comes with a full logistics suite as an option for the construction companies to use if they wish to do so. The companies can keep up-to-date with the location of inbound vehicles and can use the app to optimally plan their deliveries.

Masabi - Justride SDK

Integrating Public Transit Ticketing into Ridehailing, Journey Planning and Mobility-as-a-Service Apps To Bridge the Last Mile

Stage Intelligence - BICO: Artificial Intelligence, Operators and Making Intelligent Micro-Mobility a Reality

The BICO AI integrated app allows micro-mobility scheme operators an opportunity to see their fleet in real-time and dynamically re-balance their fleet on the go.

 

 

Judges Award: Fleet Operator of the Year Award

Our second Judges special award, the Fleet Operator of the Year Award recognises that transport technology is nothing without fleet. Whether that fleet consists of buses, cars or bikes it must provide the right vehicle in the right place at the right time in order to enable an excellent customer experience of new mobility.

TRANStech Shared Transport Provider of the Year Award

Entries in this category:

Beryl - Beryl Bikes in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

The scheme has 200 Beryl Bays across a geographic area of almost 120km 2 . At its maturity the scheme will host 1,000 bikes and be the first and largest fully geo-fenced, hybrid bike share scheme in the world. The scheme has 2,100 active users who have completed more than 7,000 journeys over 4,000km in just one month of use, with an average journey length of 2km. 80% of users park bikes in their designated “Beryl Bays”, with this number set to rise with further implementation of bays across the conoburation.

Donkey Republic - Simplicity in Bike Sharing

The Donkey system uses a hub centric parking system meaning that all vehicles are to be parked in "virtual stations". This has the advantage of the vehicles only get parked in pre-designated parking areas. Each of our hubs or “virtual stations” has not only a maximum capacity, but also an optimal capacity. The optimal capacity being the lower, helps us to guard against overcrowding or having too few vehicles at a given area. If a bicycle is misplaced or a hub is “overcrowded”, the status is instantly updated in our system. This information is then sent directly to the City Manager and the shepherd team. A shepherd is dispatched, on an electric bike with a bike trailer, or on a trike if necessary, to relocate the vehicle to a designated hub. The Donkey Hub Centric system is based on algorithms working with location data from three different sources; a GPS on the bikes, GPS signal from the users phone taken on each lock and unlock action and bluetooth sniffing whereby each users app is sniffing for bluetooth locks and lets our system know if it spots a bike in a different location than our system has been told it should be. 

Nexans EVCS - Car sharing in the Ardennes

A project run in conjunction with the local authorities across the entire Ardenne region (mayors, deputy mayors and local councillors), Clem (the service provider for the car club management) and Gireve, the EMSP. There was also close collaboration with AVERE.

ShareNow - Scaling Carsharing with Flexible Car Clubs 

SHARE NOW (DriveNow) is a flexible carsharing service that has been operating in Greater London (9 boroughs) since December 2014. Since it started, SHARE NOW has grown from 210 to 720 shared vehicles, including 130 battery-electric BMW i3s. The total number of people that have registered with the scheme so far is over 70,000. Everything can be done through the app and there is no need for keys. Users of the service can find a car in any on-street parking bay, unlock the car with the app, and drive one-way or round-trip returning to any parking bay in the operating area (DriveNow Zone).

Via & Mercedes - ViaVan
 
ViaVan, the joint venture between Via and Mercedes-Benz Vans in Europe, has built the platform and technology for shared, electric vehicles (EVs) to operate efficiently as part of a scaled fleet-based ridesharing service. ViaVan has built unique features into its routing algorithm to maximize the range of electric vehicles and to direct them to charging stations when they are in need, all while taking into account passenger pickups and drop offs.

 

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