Intelligent Transport Solutions for Smart Cities and Regions: Lessons Learned
neighboring counties or other transportsector agencies.
Arup ®, the international engineering, design and project management firm, contributes its transportation sector expertise. Arup and InterDigital are also responsible for exploring new data monetization business models and developing the oneTRANSPORT business case.
Other trial participants include transport analytics experts from Traak( traditional analytics methods) and Imperial College London( research-based analytics). The trial makes use of over 200 types of data assets belonging to the five customer organizations and two other transport system and infrastructure managers, Clearview Traffic Group ® and WorldSensing ®.
Innovate UK, the UK’ s innovation agency, provided 70 % of the roughly $ 5m in funding for this two-year, pre-commercialization trial. The trial aims to explore innovation in intelligent transport, smart regions and data monetization, activities that no individual local authority would undertake on its own. It should also establish a sound understanding of the requirements to progress into commercialization.
ONETRANSPORT APPROACH AND STRATEGIC DESIGN PRINCIPLES
Many smart city initiatives gravitate to quick-win deployments to satisfy a priority use case or local political cause. In the case of the oneTRANSPORT initiative, the project team conducted a feasibility study prior to the launch of a pilot project. This feasibility study explored several strategic issues relating to long term viability, beyond a pilot phase, as well as measures to foster broad adoption within local authorities.
The public-sector authorities involved in the oneTRANSPORT initiative differ from large metropolitan cities, such as London, which have been forerunners of smart city initiatives. As is typical of small and mediumsized agencies, the oneTRANSPORT authorities have comparatively less capacity to direct funding on innovative, smart city pilot projects. Moreover, their service footprint is more varied as it covers rural and urban environments. These smaller localities also need more effective regional integration with neighboring regions to manage commuter journeys that cross geographic and administrative boundaries.
From an architectural design perspective, the variations in operating environment and need for cross-regional cooperation are a key integration point. The oneTRANSPORT team concluded that a data exchange and marketplace approach that conforms to an open standard is the best way to satisfy this need. Some of the key drivers for this approach in the oneTRANSPORT initiative are:
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Standards based, scalable solution that offers the ability to add to the scope of supportable use-cases; Ability to accommodate brownfield and greenfield assets, beginning with the integration of a wealth of existing data assets belonging to several different authorities into a common data exchange environment; A partnering approach that fosters diversity( i. e., best of breed partners in different domains) and low barriers to
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