In today’s UK Government Spring Budget announcement was the paragraph: “Accelerating smart data schemes in energy and transport – Following announcement at Autumn Statement 2023 that the government would seek to maximise the benefits from incoming Data Protection and Data Information Bill Smart Data powers, the government is providing targeted funding for consultations and calls …
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The UK transport & mobility sector is the largest emitter of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. Consumers and small businesses generate a wealth of useful personal transport and mobility data as they move about their lives or work. This includes information about products purchased (tickets), journeys undertaken (routes, durations, etc.) and discounts & concessions used …
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The Public Transport sector is not known for swiftly and easily taking on tech innovations. Adopting new technologies may be appealing to some (especially users), but so is running an efficient, safe and reliable passenger & freight service around a city, region or country. Keeping up with customer demands in the transport industry is a …
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The word “Ecosystem” isn’t used as much as it should be in the transport and Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) sector. The term has far more usage in other sectors, such as financial services, where it is now more regularly used by most banks and FinTechs. And increasingly in the Open Finance world of insurers, credit companies, etc. …
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In the UK the transport & mobility sector is now the largest emitter of CO2 and other greenhouse gases (GHGs). Helpfully though, individuals and businesses are becoming increasingly aware of the emissions generated by their travels and are motivated to minimise these footprints to help reach the Net Zero target by 2050 – the date …
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The transport and mobility sector in the UK (and other countries) is highly deregulated and fragmented, with services from many regional providers across different modes of transport. There are 20+ train operating companies, dozens of bus and tram operators, numerous taxi and micro-mobility companies, and more recently many new Mobility-as-a-Service [MaaS] platforms being launched. Each …
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The Open Transport Initiative was originally set-up to create and support the adoption of customer account data sharing (AKA “Smart Data”) across the transport & mobility sector. And having data (such as usage, journey information & discounts) shared from different accounts across the sector is an important first step. However the maximum benefit of Smart …
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Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the transport and mobility sector are increasing, despite global agreements to reach net zero emissions by 2050. In 2022, global CO2 emissions from transport grew by more than 250 Megatonnes, reaching 8 Gigatonnes in total. https://www.iea.org/energy-system/transport The sector therefore has the responsibility to decarbonise, quickly.(And like all good transport analogies, …
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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation in the European Union (EU) that outlines the rights of individuals with regards to their personal data. The UK’s implementation of the GDPR is the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018). The DPA 2018 is very similar to the GDPR and sets out the same rights …
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Our work has led us to creating the Open Standard for customer account data sharing across the transport & mobility sector. This allows any transport account to be able to securely share specific data (e.g. mobility products, journeys and travel discounts) with named & agreed third parties. It is similar in principle to other data …
Open Transport - Transport & Mobility Data Interoperability 