This week we broke cover on what we have recently done for the Smart Data Challenge. At the Smartex Limited Ticketing Card Forum [TCF] in Cardiff on Wednesday 24th September Hayden Sutherland demonstrated our Open Transport Smart Data Dashboard product to an audience of industry experts. If you would like to see this product in …
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Open Transport is passionate about communicating our aims and activities. We have therefore created a monthly ‘Smart Data 4 Transport” (online) meeting that invites senior representatives from UK Government, including Department for Business & Trade, Department for Transport and Crown Commercial Service, as well as data and transport industry specialists and stakeholders such as ITS …
The Open Transport Initiative is one of 10 finalists in the Smart Data Challenge. Our prototype application uses multiple sources of transport and journey data, consumer financial data and open data around CO2 emissions of transport modes to create the first working personalised transport data dashboard for customers, to make informed, efficient travel decisions while …
This week we have been busy migrating our Open APIs to a different account. This means that the URLs have changed, some contact information has changed and therefore we have incremented both versions for complete traceability and transparency: Old versions Operator APIhttps://app.swaggerhub.com/apis/open-transport/operator-info/1.1.0 Customer APIhttps://app.swaggerhub.com/apis/open-transport/customer-account/1.0.2 New versions Operator APIhttps://app.swaggerhub.com/apis/opentransport/operator-info/1.1.1 Customer APIhttps://app.swaggerhub.com/apis/opentransport/customer-account/1.0.3/ Notes: We will also soon …
The Smart Data Challenge Prize was announced in January 2025 and has sought to find teams that can: Identify Smart Data use cases that utilise multiple datasets from sectors across the economy, and build prototypes, demonstrating their market feasibility and potential to deliver real-world benefits for consumers and businesses (pending implementation of Smart Data schemes).Smart …
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Context: The Smart Data 4 Transport meeting held on April 1, 2025, brought together key stakeholders from various sectors, including transport, data governance, and procurement. The discussion focused on the implementation and implications of Smart Data initiatives in the transport sector, particularly in relation to the ongoing Data Use and Access Bill and the Smart …
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The Smart Data roadmap (published 11 months ago by the previous UK Government) outlined the “Next steps to creating a Smart Data economy in the UK in banking, energy, finance, home buying, retail, telecommunications and transport“. It also identified the transport sector at the earliest stage of Smart Data Scheme Development: Identification So currently the …
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Today was a further meeting of the “Smart Data 4 Transport” group, which launched back in December 2024. The topics of the group this month were: If you would like to be included in future meetings. please let us know:contact@opentransport.co.uk
Today, our Founder Hayden Sutherland, presented the latest developments in Smart Data for the Transport & Mobility sector during a webinar titled “Enhancing transport integration through data-driven analysis”. This webinar, supported by SYSTRA and delivered by Landor LINKS Live!, explored the contribution of smart data, national pricing and integrating transport and non-transport policy in delivering …
The Transport Sector has made customer account data sharing difficult. There are now hundreds of different online accounts across the sector (Bus, Rail, Taxi, Micro-Mobility, Air, etc.), meaning each customer must work hard to access all their own transport & mobility data.As an example, just to consolidate their transport expenses, customers need to log in …
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