Mapping the Smart Data Transport Ecosystem

As part of of our efforts to explain the role of Smart Data across the Transport & Mobility sector, we have chosen to represent the ecosystem in a diagram. Placing the user in the middle, this diagram aims to show that Smart Data for any mode of transport (Journey / Usage Data, Transaction Data, Discount …

Smart Data + Agentic AI + Transport = Another first for Open Transport

Those following our Smart Data Challenge journey will know that we are one of 10 finalists, given funds to develop a prototype to demonstrate that it is possible use multiple sources of transport and journey data, consumer financial data and Open Data for CO2 emissions of transport modes. Our dashboard provides a working personalised transport …

Integrating Transport Customer Data

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 …

What next for Transport & Smart Data?

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 …

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 …

What is Smart Data and how does it help us meet Net Zero goals?

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 …