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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UK Government launches Smart Data Challenge Prize
This week sees the announcement of the Smart Data Challenge Prize. This is a £600,000 pot funded by the Department of Business and Trade, designed to identify and develop Smart Data use cases across the economy.“The Prize will give up to ten selected innovators the opportunity to prototype Smart Data solutions with high potential impact …
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Where does Smart Data sit on the Data Spectrum?
Several years back we worked with MaaS Scotland (the umbrella organisation for Mobility-as-a-Service [MaaS] activities in Scotland) on the creation of The Data Spectrum for Transport & Mobility. This diagram was a small (but significant) step forward in the data maturity of the sector. In that it adopted the original work of The Open Data Institute …
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Smart Data 4 Transport group launches
In October this year several organisations were invited to a Smart Transport Data Roundtable in Leeds organised by Intelligent Transport Systems UK (ITS UK), the industry body for transport technology, and the Open Data Institute (ODI). At this Roundtable the role of smart data in a transport context was discussed, learnings from other industries where …
New Government Smart Data Bill
A newly renamed Data Use and Access Bill was been introduced to Parliament on Wednesday 23rd October 2024. This creates the conditions for the future success of Open Banking and the growth of other Smart Data schemes. The government claims this will boost the economy by £10bn a year, including the reduction of costs and …
A Smart Data Economy must include Transport & Mobility
The following is a post originally published on our company LinkedIn page, but now copied here for reference: Smart Data?For those that are not familiar with this term, Smart Data is the secure sharing of customer data with authorised third parties (ATPs).The most popular example of Smart Data is Open Banking, introduced via legislation in …
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Smart Data Economy – what benefit?
A Smart Data Economy is the roll-out of Open Banking-like data sharing across sectors, including: energy, finance, home buying, retail, telecommunications and transport. The UK Gov Digital Strategy has stated that building a Smart Data economy could unlock £149 billion of organisational efficiency and £66 billion of new business and innovation opportunities in the UK …
What is a Smart Data economy?
With the success of Open Banking, the aim is now to ‘open up’ customer data sharing across different sectors of UK industry such as: energy, finance, home buying, retail, telecommunications and transport.https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/creating-a-smart-data-economy This will, as a result: The origins of the Smart Data economy are actually based upon the UK Government Data Strategy (2017 updated …
King’s Speech lays foundation for Smart Data Legislation
The King’s Speech today covered the introduction of the Digital Information and Smart Data Bill. This includes: “setting up Smart Data schemes, which are the secure sharing of a customer’s data upon their request, with authorised third-party providers”. https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/the-kings-speech-2024
ITS Report recognises importance of Smart Data for transport
A report titled “Manifesto for the Future of Transport” has been published today by Intelligent Transport Systems UK [ITS], the voice of the transport technology industry. Purposefully released ahead of the UK General Election in 4 weeks, this paper focuses on Mobility-as-s-Service [MaaS] and Data, including Smart Data sharing across the sector. “Smart Data offers …
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Open Transport - Transport & Mobility Data Interoperability 