Intelligent Transport Solutions for Smart Cities and Regions: Lessons Learned
innovation agency. This pattern of seed
innovation in the public sector has parallels
in other parts of the world, including the
USA, through its SmartAmerica challenge.
A governance model for private-public
sector partnerships which ensures that
local authority requirements are clearly
articulated and addressed by multiple
solution providers. The notion of
working within a collaborative eco-
system ensures that local authorities
benefit from best-of-breed expertise
across
the
different
technical,
operational and commercial disciplines
that are implicated in smart city services.
A customer-centric forum to foster
change management and ensure
widespread and rapid adoption of smart
city concepts through the sharing of
promising
ideas,
discussion
of
implementation
strategies
and
evangelization of success stories.
The oneTRANSPORT initiative has achieved
early success via several customer-led use
cases as well as market recognition 8 for its
innovative approach. Local authority users
acknowledge the value of using the
oneM2M standard in managing technology
and vendor lock-in risks. Local authorities
have also championed the Transport Data
Initiative, a forum where local authority
users share information about common
requirements and solutions.
Finally, the concept of using a shared
platform to aggregate city, regional and
national data has drawn interest from other
smart city and intelligent transport
initiatives around the world. The underlying
platform in the oneTRANSPORT initiative
now supports a second smart city project –
the City of Birmingham’s Smart Routing 9
citizen-enabled transport planning service -
which operates in a different part of the UK
and avoids the need for Birmingham to
invest in building its own smart city platform.
The purpose of the oneTRANSPORT initiative
was to validate these principles. The project
itself dealt with several areas of innovation
which individual local authorities would not
have had the means to fund from their day-
to-day operational budgets. The initiative
benefits greatly from the endorsement and
funding provided by InnovateUK, the UK’s
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oneTRANSPORT wins award for best transportation and logistics solution at the IoT Solutions World Congress, 2016 -
http://www.iotsworldcongress.com/activities/iot-solutions-awards-gala/
9 SmartRouting partners include the University of Aberdeen, Ayoupa, Birmingham City Council, Caution Your Blast and InterDigital Europe
https://www.smartrouting.co.uk/
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