The UK Government’s Department for Business & Trade has today published an important document that outlines how the transport & mobility sector will be part of Smart Data sharing schemes in 2024.
Titled “The Smart Data Roadmap” this report provides a timeline of the action the Government is taking in 2024 to 2025 to unlock the potential for Smart Data to drive the wider data economy.
Each sector will progress through four stages
- identification
- consultation
- design
- implementation
With Transport defined as still being in the ‘identification’ stage.
Next Steps
In the section “Next steps for Smart Data in Transport” the actions given are:
The Department for Transport will progress work to support Smart Data objectives, including:
- Taking forward discovery work to develop transport use cases for Smart Data.
- Using the outcomes of the discovery to shape the evidence for a Call for Evidence in Autumn 2024, along with potential questions.
- Publishing further detail on the opportunities for Smart Data in the transport sector in 2025.
With the further information provided that “The government is also considering schemes within energy, telecommunications and transport in line with its vision for regulatory reform that will ensure regulators help push down the cost of living and drive economic growth.”
The Open Transport Initiative welcomes the publication of this roadmap and especially the news that in Q3 2024 the Government will be launching a Call for Evidence for potential Smart Data schemes in the Transport sector.
Since the publication of the UK Government’s Smart Data consultation response “Next Steps for Smart Data” published back in September 2020, The Open Transport Initiative has campaigned for the introduction of ‘Open Banking’ like data sharing practices to be properly adopted across the Transport & Mobility sector.
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