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At the Digital Transport Exchange conference last week our own Jonathan Raper lead a session in which he asked us to collaboratively develop predictions for digital transport infrastructure, framing it as comparable to the building of the railways, and the various phases of development that went through. The railways went through a period of having...
We’re at Digital Transport Exchange conference and exhibition in Oxford this week. Described as bringing together a “rapidly developing yet still disparate sector. From client data champions to cutting-edge data developers” it’s a great show for us. Maybe we’ll see you there on our stand D1! There’s still time to register if you are interested...
After 18 months of hard work, TransportAPI, ustwo and London Underground have successfully closed out the Accelerate project at the final review with InnovateUK and the Rail Safety and Standards Board. Accelerate was funded under the ‘Enhancing customer experience in rail travel’ programme and aimed to gather data from travelling smartphone users to support a new dialogue between the...
TransportAPI are proud to announce a renewed collaboration with Future Cities Catapult (FCC). FCC specialises in urban strategies, connected cities and urban data science and aims to drive innovation and growth in these areas. This year we shall be working with them on accelerating innovation in urban smart mobility. This work will be based...
TransportAPI.com has been working with Ford to enable drivers to better analyse their driving. Together, we monitored Ford’s new connected car fleet for 80,000 hours and extracted 300GB of complex sensor data from the vehicles. By monitoring variables such as braking speed, gear shifts, windscreen wiper usage and engine speed (as well as weather and road...
First Group are launching a series of new apps for each of their operating businesses in the first half of 2017. The new apps include. “First Bus” on iOS and on android, and also “TransPennine Express” on iOS and Android, with more apps to appear over the next few months. With hundreds of thousands of downloads, these...
Photo CC-BY robertsharp59 on flickr Yesterday’s London marathon saw a record breaking 39,487 people complete the 26 mile run. With crowds of friends and relatives cheering them on along the route, how does this effect London’s transport network? tube-radar.com (powered by TransportAPI’s tube performance data) on Sunday showed the underground network running normally (green), but...
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Thingful “A Search Engine for the Internet of Things”, has recently been working with us to index some of our transport data within their platform. While the internet used to exist mainly on our computer screens, it is increasingly existing on connected devices. Not just smartphones, but also lamp-posts, kettles, rubbish bins and lots of...
The new Bus Services Bill which is going through the House of Lords at the moment has the potential to really shake up the transport data ecosystem in England. Currently 60% of all public transport journeys in England are by bus. That amounts to 4.65bn journeys per year. Buses are good for the economy (getting...
