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WELCOME In recent years, the idea of a ‘smart city’ has shifted from science fiction to meaningless buzzword to – finally – something that is becoming reality for many. Our towns and cities are becoming more intelligent and connected every day. And with technology revolutionising the way we live, work and travel, Smarter Tomorrow 2019 provides a forum to consider how smart cities should evolve: along with technological innovation, cities also need to plan for the social experimentation that will lead to the necessary regulatory reform. As one academic put it, we don’t want to end up imposing 21st century technology on a 19th century governance system. New governance systems will need to inform decision-making on an ever-larger scale.

Research – and common sense – shows that there is a significant gap in understanding around what a ‘smarter tomorrow’ means. With more than 60% of councils declaring a Climate Emergency, decarbonisation and resilience have become anchors of community concern, and are ideally placed to be the drivers of a transition to smarter solutions. Cities and towns across Europe are investing in digital transformation strategies for decarbonisation and resilience, and Smarter Tomorrow is all about how inspirational projects are delivering real-world benefits for citizens, today and tomorrow.

Cities, Travel and Streets are three areas where emerging technologies are improving towns and cities for the benefit of all. Low emission vehicles and transport, cleaner energy, active travel, digital transformation and improved public engagement are practical, and achievable, ways forward.

If city leaders hope to see a return on their smart city investments, and realise the promise of smarter solutions, they must also invest in bringing their citizens along on the journey. Smart infrastructure can help facilitate efficiency and value creation, but we still need to place people centre stage. ‘If the essence of urban development is individual action, then a city can only be as smart as its citizens,’ says Michael Batty, Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London. City leaders would do well to remember his words. Juliana O’Rourke Content Director Landor LINKS

CONTENTS Towards a low carbon economy Liverpool City Region is decarbonising

Real-time emissions visualisation Michael Sharratt, REVIS

Fostering public and private sector innovation David Leipziger, Innovate UK 09 The power of the kerb Dom Hyams, Grid Smarter Cities

Intelligent air quality monitoring Ben Fielden, EMSOL Smarter Tomorrow

Supporters A-Z

Exhibition ﬂoorplan

Programme - day one

Sponsors A-Z

Exhibitors A-Z Exhibitors A-Z

Programme - day two

The smart way to guide people to venues and events Chris Thompson, You. Smart. Thing.

Green spaces: a tool to measure impact on health and wellbeing Therese Karger-Lerchl, Vivid Economics Accelerating the deployment of public EV charging infrastructure Geoﬀ Murphy, SP Energy Network

A digital overhaul for the planning system Stefan Webb, Connected Places Catapult Future mobility impacts Giles Perkins, WSP

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Urban land community: using technology to make better places Lauren Poon, ULI Tech Forum 49 Dundee: scaling up mobility innovations Anna Day, Urban Foresight

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Winning hearts and minds: how smart approaches are delivering citizen-focused services Joanne Phoenix, Sensor City 54

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Towards a low carbon economy

Having declared a Climate Emergency in May 2019, the Liverpool City Region has set ambitious targets for tackling climate change. Key elements include decarbonising vital energy and transport infrastructure. Juliana O'Rourke spoke with Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram and Liam Robinson, portfolio holder for transport and air quality We can, with some confidence, state that we will be net zero carbon by 2040, says Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor, Liverpool City Region. Having declared a Climate Emergency in May 2019, the Liverpool City Region (LCR) has set out its targets for tackling climate change, and will develop a full Climate Action Plan by December 2019. Key elements of this plan involve decarbonising transport, including the recent Vision For Bus (more of which later), reducing the transport network”s impact on the environment by investing £8m in the first phase of a new 472-mile walking and cycling network, and developing the ambitious Mersey Tidal Power Project. In June 2019, LCR published a Transport Plan, stating that it is “working to reduce the transport network”s impact on people and on the environment in order to support its commitments on the Climate Emergency, air quality and carbon emissions”. LCR has also announced plans to make the Liverpool City Region the most digitally connected in the country, an aspiration that underpins its ambitious projects to improve vital energy, transport and communications infrastructure. I mention that since we spoke in 2018, in the run-up to Smarter Travel LIVE 2018, also held in Liverpool, that Liverpool City Region (LCR) seems to have really opened up the

pipelines in terms of projects being announced, funds committed and work starting on the ground. “It took a while to get up to speed,” says the Mayor. “We have made so much progress in the past 12 months. And it”s not all about technology, he adds, although acknowledging that technology plays a huge part in securing a resilient future. “Technology and innovation helps us to capitalise on some of our key assets.” Key assets include the transatlantic internet cables connecting the UK, North America and the rest of the world, which land locally in Sefton, and the Hartree supercomputer in Halton, Cheshire, used by the Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure (DAFNI), which is leading on major national projects exploring infrastructure resilience, using its world-leading computing powers. But it”s not all about hardware; one other key asset is skills and expertise, such as that invested in the HyNet North West project. HyNet is exploring hydrogen capture and, looking into the future, the production of hydrogen through hydrolysis with the wider aim of reducing carbon emissions from industry, homes and transport. “With a low-carbon economy worth more than £2 billion a year, we are already in the vanguard of the green energy

revolution,” says the Mayor. “Introducing commercially-viable hydrogen-powered buses would not only help our city region tackle poor air quality and achieve our ambition of being zero carbon by 2040, but would put us at the forefront of a technology that could be transformative for the rest of the country and beyond.” LCR is set to be the first place in the North of England to trial hydrogen buses following a successful £6.4 million bid to the government”s Office for Low Emission Vehicles. The bid was put forward by a consortium and will be progressed in conjunction with Arriva and Stagecoach, partners in the city region”s Bus Alliance. The Hydrogen Bus Project will see the creation of a new hydrogen refuelling station and up to 25 hydrogen–powered buses on the streets, emitting nothing but water from their exhaust pipes. The first trial is expected to take place in 2020, subject to agreement with the Bus Alliance. The new hydrogen refuelling station will initially deliver 500kg of hydrogen every day (1 kg of hydrogen contains 33.33 kWh of usable energy). Crucially, the project aims to demonstrate the commercial viability of a model that installs refuellers for high-use fleets, in order to develop a network for future use by passenger cars and other vehicles.

On the buses LCR is also looking closely at the opportunities outlined in the Bus Services Act 2017, which offers the region several choices: franchising, Enhanced Partnerships or a continuation of the Bus Alliance, says Liam Robinson, LCR portfolio holder for transport and air quality. “The region”s proposed “Vision for Bus” is based on themes identified across 1,500 responses to an online survey that formed the first phase of the Liverpool City Region”s “Big Bus Debate”, launched by the Mayor in November 2018,” he says. “Running 24 hour buses on key routes, at least one bus an hour on all routes between 5am and midnight, zero emission fleets, punctuality, reliability, ticketing complexity, the overall cost of travel and service frequencies, coverage and hours of operation were all key themes identified for improvement.”

“We have really big ambitions for bus in the Liverpool City Region, says Robinson. The Bus Alliance has allowed us to make good progress in modernising our bus network but, as the “Big Bus Debate” has shown us, we have to go much further and much faster. Eight out of ten public transport journeys are made by bus. The network has to be robust and sustainable, otherwise we”re putting economic growth at risk. Doing nothing is not an option.” “It”s a very intensive process, adds the Mayor, involving many users and stakeholders. “We are in the process of finalising some of these proposals. The legislation is very technical, it”s very detailed, and requires a robust business case. We will be bringing forward recommendations early in the New Year in terms of how will be utilising new powers.”

Eight out of ten public transport journeys are made by bus. The network has to be robust and sustainable, otherwise we’re putting economic growth at risk. Doing nothing is not an option

On the rails

Back in July, a new Trans-Pennine rail route between Manchester and Leeds was promised by the new Prime Minister as he set out his early domestic agenda to “turbo-charge” regional growth and prosperity. In a speech in Manchester, Boris Johnson affirmed that one of his top domestic priorities will be to “level out” opportunities. ‘I want to be the PM who does with Northern Powerhouse Rail what we did with Crossrail in London...I am going to deliver on my commitment to that vision with a pledge to fund the Leeds to Manchester route,’ he said. Reactions to his plans were mixed. Northern Powerhouse Rail was already due to feature in the Government”s autumn Spending Review, yet Transport for the North”s wider vision, including a

new line from Liverpool to Manchester Airport and Crewe, was not mentioned in the PM”s speech. Henri Murison, Director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, claimed Johnson’s announcement was a “seminal moment” for the North, yet the Mayor argued that the Liverpool to Manchester leg of the scheme was “by far and away the most readily deliverable section, and the one that can be built fastest’. However, things change quickly in today’s Government, and by September the Mayor was being much more outspoken, lambasting London Assembly members’ call for cancellation of HS2 to the North as “arrogant” and “blinkered”. London Assembly members called not only for HS2 to the Midlands and the

North to be cancelled, but also for the money to instead be spent on London’s Crossrail scheme. Any money left over could then, they suggested, be allocated to Northern Powerhouse Rail. Dismissing the proposals, the Mayor responded: ‘The sheer arrogance of this is just staggering. We all know that London already receives thousands of pounds more in transport funding per person, every year, than the North. We can’t continue in a situation where it”s cake for London and crumbs for the North. It’s got to stop for the benefit of the whole of the UK. I am absolutely clear – along with leaders from across the North – that delivering both HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail is the fundamental cornerstone for rebalancing the UK economy.’

Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram

LCR Listens

The quality of life in any city region has a massive effect on the opportunities for growth and prosperity, and this includes attracting skilled workers to the region, and upgrading existing upskilling opportunities. People matter, and the Mayor is ‘acutely aware’ of the fact he faces challenges in bringing the region’s citizens along with him on his journey to smart resilience. ‘I’m upfront about saying that we need to consult more with people, not just about our views, but about citizen needs.’ That’s why he launched LCR Listens: an exercise in bringing devolution to life, to ensure that local people have the opportunity to influence genuine local decisionmaking. ‘We need to do more listening, and less telling people what we think is in their best interests.’ But, I ask, what if he and his colleagues don’t like what they hear? ‘We need to know what people”s views are so that we can put a coherent argument as to what the alternatives are – if we think we need them,’ he says. Take air quality, he adds, and the fact that there too many people in the city region with asthma and respiratory disease; but also people who are used to using their cars. ‘If we offer them a viable alternative, then maybe they’d be more interested in a modal shift towards public transport or walking and cycling.’ The LCR Listens project is looking holistically at climate change, and at the environmental consequences of what everything we do, he adds. ‘This is where we believe that we can start to shift opinions, attitudes and behaviours.’ LCR is working hard on its “viable alternatives”, and has set out a priority list of 18 green transport projects, including new stations, new publicly-owned Merseyrail trains and new Mersey ferries. ‘These plans mark one of the Combined Authority”s most significant

investments yet in making our transport system more sustainable,’ said Robinson. “By increasing our public transport network and making it more attractive, as well as making it easier for people to get around on foot or by bike, we are giving a green boost to our city region”s economy, and one that will benefit everyone who lives and works here.” Projects to be supported, through the Transporting Cities Fund, fall across three main themes: improving and expanding the public transport network to meet new areas of demand, improving the appeal of public transport, and improving health and wellbeing. Health and well-being are central, but far too often overlooked, elements of any smart city strategy. Importantly, this Mayor and his team recognise that social innovation is just as important as technological innovation when considering smart transitions. ‘We are a region that pioneered radical social reforms as well as pioneering world-changing technologies,’ he says. ‘Our future prosperity depends on our ability to renew and modernise our connections. We have an ambition to become a beacon for high-tech innovation, and have set out an agenda that is leading us towards a smarter tomorrow,’ he says. ‘We need to be at the forefront in embracing emerging technologies to drive economic growth and attract investment.’ But not without bringing citizens along with him. ‘Our devolution deal establishes specific areas of direct responsibility for the Metro Mayor and Combined Authority focusing primarily on investment, economic growth, planning and transport,’ he says. ‘But making the most of devolution means using these new forums to explore opportunities to share best practice, pool resources and act together where it is agreed and makes sense.’ n

With a low-carbon economy worth more than £2 billion a year, we are already in the vanguard of the green energy revolution

Key projects across the Liverpool City Region include: l Delivering Europe’s largest tidal power project by 2030 l Creating an ultrafast digital network across the whole city region l Tripling the volume of energy generated by oﬀshore wind in Liverpool Bay by 2032 l Replacing all methane with hydrogen from the city region’s gas grid by 2035 l Delivering a network of at least eight zero-carbon refuelling stations (hydrogen and electric charging) across the city region by 2025 l Meeting the city region’s hydrogen demand from transport, industry and heat from clean hydrogen produced within the city region from 2023

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Fostering public and private sector innovation

Innovate UK will be soon be working on a new initiative designed to bring dynamic SMEs into the orbit of public authorities. The aim is to catalyse innovative approaches in the advanced urban services sector. Juliana O'Rourke spoke with David Leipziger, Innovation Lead for Cities & Mobility, Innovate UK Since 2014, Innovate UK has invested around £1.3 billion to help businesses across the country to innovate, with match funding from industry taking the total value of projects above £4.3 billion. It has helped 8,500 organisations create around 70,000 jobs – investing £190m in more tha 600 projects in 2018 – and added an estimated £18 billion of value to the UK economy. In April 2018, Innovate UK became part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the national funding agency investing in science and research in the UK. Operating across the whole of the UK with a combined budget of more than £6 billion, UKRI brings together seven Research Councils, Innovate UK and Research England. Innovate UK's framework is guided by the Industrial Strategy, which is working towards four Grand Challenges: the future of mobility, AI and data, healthy ageing and clean growth and infrastructure, says David Leipziger, Innovation Lead for Cities & Mobility, Innovate UK. ‘For me, the critical role we play is helping organisations to test new ideas that could transform the UK economy. We promote the most radical, potentially disruptive ideas, and support companies that are not able to source investment because their ideas remain in the early stages of development. We de-risk the development of the ideas that could be really game-changing in their sectors. I personally see Innovate UK as an enabler for UK institutions.’

Government is critical in ensuring success whenever new technologies come to the fore, seeing that they are distributed, shared and leveraged equitably

Intersection of the public and private sectors

But it’s not all about business, says Leipziger. ‘I come from an urban planning background, so I have a strong understanding of the responsibilities and roles of local government. Government is critical in ensuring success whenever new technologies come to the fore, see that they are distributed, shared and leveraged equitably. They’re really important in bringing new business models and frameworks to fruition.’

Innovate UK will soon be working on a new initiative designed to bring dynamic SMEs into the orbit of public authorities, says Leipziger, in order to catalyse innovative approaches in the advanced urban services sector and to help to strengthen Innovate UK's public-facing role. ‘Launching on the back of our International Missions scheme, where we’ve been taking companies to cities in foreign markets to understand what’s happening there, and to see if they can grow, Domestic Missions will interact with local authorities and public agencies to understand what the real challenges are.’ At a previous Smarter Travel LIVE! event, Stan Boland, CEO of leading AI innovator five AI, stated that best thing that government and local government can do in terms of innovation is ‘keep out’. Naturally, Leipziger ‘totally disagrees’. ‘I think one of the biggest issues is that there are very particular motivations and constraints that are unique to the public sector and private sector alike that are not so well understood. There needs to be better mutual understanding that cities have to be accountable to citizens and show legitimate transparency, and that companies have to be responsible to their owners and shareholders. One of the things that that we do is to facilitate better relationships between public and private sector, through entities like the Catapults, for example. And I see that the Innovate UK approach is shifting to acknowledge the critical role of local government.’

Future Cities Demonstrators

One of the most signiﬁcant ways in which Innovate UK has supported the public sector to date, says Leipziger, was the Future City Demonstrator project. Via competitive grants totalling £34.5 million, Innovate UK challenged 30 cities to show how they could work with local businesses and partners to improve urban living and working using new technologies.

Each city was awarded £50,000 to investigate its ideas and to come up with a proposal for a large-scale city demonstrator – showing how diﬀerent systems in a city could be integrated and how new technologies could be used to deal with challenges in areas such as transport, housing, health, energy and pollution. The winning authority, Glasgow, secured an extra £24m to demonstrate how technology can make life in the city smarter, safer and more sustainable. It focused on four key areas: active travel (cycling and walking), energy, social transport and public safety. Three other cities, Bristol, London and Peterborough, also won £3m each. Following the Glasgow project, a report drew together evidence collected by Glasgow City Council (GCC) and independent research conducted by consultancy mruk to evaluate the Future City Glasgow programme.

There were three key elements: The Glasgow Operations Centre (GOC), sharing public-realm CCTV systems, Traﬃc Management Services, and emergency planning and response functions for the city; The Open Glasgow project, which aimed to integrate a range of city systems and data to deliver improved services and facilitate wider engagement with citizens. Open Glasgow hosted a ‘big data’

store and platform to handle realtime information, analytics and models, city dashboards to present live city data, enhance the existing MyGlasgow app and create a City Observatory. The third element was four 'Demonstrators' intended to demonstrate tangible, real-time benefits to people in Glasgow. These covered Energy Efficiency, Integrated Social Transport, Intelligent Street Lighting and Active Travel. The project’s main legacies were the leading role that it has allowed Glasgow to take in the deployment of ‘smart’, digital technologies, the choice of systems that can be easily expanded and upgraded in the future, and the way in which it brought disparate organisations from across the city together. In terms of legacy, the Council’s Strategic Plan now makes reference to the pivotal role that digital and data will play in the Council’s transformation. It states that open-data and big-data analytics will support and inform how the Council operates internally and its role within the city. The Demonstrators resulted in improved service delivery and associated cost savings, for example by optimising the use of GCC’s fleet of buses and its related record-keeping, and by reducing energy use in council buildings.

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Smog over Almaty city, Kazakhstan. Pollution is a global problem, with 40 million people in the UK living in areas where potentially illegal levels of air pollution from diesel vehicles risk damaging their health

Real-time emissions visualisation

The REVIS system aims to provide a step-change in decision-making and behavioural change for emissions reduction. REVIS will enable national, regional and local authorities to devise and test emission reduction policies tailored to their communities. By Michael Sharratt, CEO, TerOpta, and Project Manager, REVIS Today, city and countryside dwellers are subjected on a daily basis to pollution. Diesel vehicles in our streets, emitting clouds of black smoke, were at one time seen as the norm and, during the last century, clouds of toxic gasses from factory chimneys were highly visible and known to be dangerous to our health. Clean air acts were put in place, and the air became visibly cleaner over the years. Death and disease directly related to this visible pollution fell, and it was clear to see the improvement in

our daily lives. However, not all pollutants are visible, and people world-wide still suffer from the effects of these ‘invisible’ dangers. Until now, despite the health threats accruable from emissions, no tool exists that visualises NO2 or other pollutant emissions in real-time accurately, and in sufficient granularity, for us to make our own executive decisions on travel (why travel today when tomorrow there will be cleaner air?). Existing travel navigation assistants (Google Maps,

Apple iOS Maps, Waze, automakers’ navigation systems, TomTom, and AA route-planner) do not provide information about NO2 or pollutant levels. To overcome this, an Innovate UK Project is currently underway to explore these concepts. Entitled RealTime Emissions Visualisation (REVIS) for eco-friendly travel behaviour, Pollutant levels of particulate matter and Nitrogen Oxide gasses released from fossil fuels burned in internal combustion engines and power

Until now, despite the health threats accruable from emissions, no tools exist that visualises NO2 or other pollutant emissions in real-time accurately, and in suﬃcient granularity, for us to make our own executive decisions on travel

stations have been controlled by legislation for many years. However, the control and monitoring of these pollutants has not been easy to do – or to enforce – leaving some doubt as to the levels of pollutants in the local environment. It is estimated that nearly 40 million people in the UK alone are living in areas where potentially illegal levels of air pollution from diesel vehicles risk damaging their health (ClientEarth 2017). According to the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), there are 40,000 deaths every year due to NO2 levels in our air, which has been linked to cancer, asthma, stroke, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and dementia. The ongoing effect results in a high cost to people who suffer from these illnesses; potentially costing the economy £20 billion yearly. The population at large is becoming more and more aware of these issues and, to demonstrate personal commitment to understanding the air we breathe in 2017, an estimated 4,000 people used air-pollution monitoring kits in the UK (Figures from Friends of the Earth). The deployment of sensor systems along roadsides or in construction sites has not been widespread to date, due to the cost of the equipment and its required maintenance (both the lifetime of sensing elements and cost to replace). Current methods that predict pollutant emissions by estimating traffic flow and using a small number of highly accurate sensors on roads are, nevertheless, highly inaccurate as the pollutant levels are determined not only by the number of cars/ lorries, but

their individual performance (realworld emissions per vehicle cannot be trusted, as the recent VW scandal has demonstrated), the local weather conditions and many other factors. Consequently, the only way to truly understand the levels of pollutants in a given area is to employ a network of cost-effective, low maintenance, longlifetime sensors deployed in the area of interest, coupled with a sophisticated computing system. Such a set-up enables air pollution to be measured, displayed and predicted. With enough actual data, and using Artificial Intelligence systems to determine what the pollutant sources are and local weather conditions are, it is then possible to understand pollutant levels. Given data over a sufficient time period, it is then possible to make predictions as to what – given the same or similar conditions – pollutant levels are likely to be some time in advance. REVIS will use a number of accurate, low maintenance, cost effective IoT- sensors deployed in areas of interest, such as along city highways, to record actual levels of NO2 and pollutant emissions and visualise them in real-time. The data will be made available in raw form, and also within a custom-designed analysis software suite able to be purchased in whole or part. In designing and developing this system, REVIS aims to provide a stepchange in decision-making and behavioural change for emissions reduction. REVIS will enable national, regional and local authorities to devise and test emission reduction policies tailored to their communities. n

The REVIS system consists of: l A series of custom designed, cost-eﬀective IoTenabled sensor units distributed in the appropriate grid system for the speciﬁc area of interest. It will measure, in realtime, the pollutants of interest – initially NO2, PM, CO2, temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, and GPS location using an embedded video camera to capture images of the pollutant sources, and send to the Cloud, using the latest in IoT technology, a measure of the pollutant levels and an analysis of the likely causes (cars, lorries, etc) l REVIS Travel Planner (RTP). This app will visualise, in real-time, NO2 ad pollutant level emissions on roads providing drivers, commuters, cyclists and pedestrians with accurate emissions levels along their planned journey.

l Emission Visualisation as-aService (EvaaS); a platform that provides emissions data to navigation and travel planner providers such as Google Maps, Apple iOS Map; Waze, TomTom and AA route-planner so that they can include it on their solutions. l REVIS Cities Emissions Map and Monitor (RCEMM) will support local and highway authorities to monitor realtime NO2 & CO2 levels.

The power of the kerb

Our cities are ﬁnding it hard to keep up with the existing demands placed on our kerbside. With more online deliveries, building development and ride hailing app choices than ever, congestion is on the rise and, as a result, so is the need to better manage the kerb space

When we think of smart cities we picture delivery drones and autonomous vehicles; maybe even a flying car. But at Grid, we are looking to create real world benefits now - benefits that include making people healthier, live longer, be safer and work and travel more efficiently, says Dom Hyams, Communications and Digital Director, Grid Smarter Cities We may not have flying cars whizzing over our heads just yet, but things have changed rapidly in our city centres. With more people migrating to cities, and technology evolving at record pace, our behaviours are changing, as is the way we live and work in our cities. We have an app for everything, our desires can be met instantaneously and we choose convenience over almost anything else - most noticeable with our increased appetite for private hire vehicles; making owning vehicles in cities more and more unusual. By 2050 it is estimated that 70 per cent of the population are going to live and work in cities, creating additional pressures on our city infrastructure that will struggle to modernise, adapt and keep up with this ferocious innovation. The ways cities have historically been planned, organised and serviced by transport networks is now often deemed ‘not fit for purpose’, and we have to look elsewhere for the innovations that are able to help us adapt so we can operate more efficiently.

‘Virtual loading bays’ give drivers the opportunity to locate and book a suitable bay to load and unload in closer proximity to their ﬁnal delivery point, reducing their impact on congestion, and saving them time and fuel

A seemingly unlikely place of focus to help us make this change? The kerbside. Our cities are finding it hard to keep up with the existing demands placed on our kerbside. With more online deliveries, building development and ride hailing app choices than ever, congestion is on the rise and, as a result, so is the need to better manage the kerb space. With the average driver in London spending 227 hours per year in traffic, and congestion costing the UK economy £7.9 billion in 2018, the business case for local authorities to address these issues couldn’t be clearer. We’re looking to utilise our patented Intelligent Kerbside Management solution, aptly named ‘Kerb’, to allow commercial vehicles the ability to book a specific time slot on a piece of previously restricted kerb space. These are called ‘virtual loading bays’, and gives drivers the opportunity to locate and book a suitable bay to load and unload in closer proximity to their final delivery point, reducing their impact on congestion, and saving them time and fuel often wasted whilst trying to

Kerb in Dublin In Dublin, Grid is now in Phase 2 of the Smart Dublin and Enterprise Ireland’s SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) program to support Last Mile delivery in partnership with Dublin City Council and Belfast City Council.

Grid Smarter Cities have been working with Dublin City Council to better understand and analyse potential use-cases for Kerb in the city centre, with phase two now looking to work in a live environment with delivery operators to trial the solution over the coming months.

The ambition in Dublin is to demonstrate the beneﬁts of the solution for all stakeholders, and lay the foundation for how the solution can be scaled across further locations in Dublin, Belfast and beyond.

locate a legal parking spot, all without the risk of receiving a parking ticket. Simultaneously, as well as developing our solution to meet the demands of the city, we have to be mindful to respect citizens, and create a cleaner and greener environment. Local authorities are now being seen to commit to measures in Air Quality Action Plans and Strategies, including the use of Virtual Loading Bays as we understand more about

the effects of pollution on people’s health, and how vehicle emissions contribute towards that. 12.5 per cent of London’s air now exceeds the EU pollution limits, and more worryingly, 9,000 premature deaths per year can be attributed to air pollution in London alone. With such stark numbers becoming more widely accepted as fact, the option of doing nothing is quite simply unacceptable. In recent months, Grid has been

working hard to demonstrate the benefits of Kerb across numerous deployments and pilot projects. The challenges faced by a city like Dublin are not unique, with high levels of congestion, pollution and limited kerb space affecting almost every city the world over. The possible applications of how such a kerbside solution could be used are numerous, with the construction industry also being of particular focus for Grid: there are currently very few mechanisms in place to efficiently manage freight vehicles on construction sites, as well as their movements to and from site. We’re looking to make freight deliveries more timely, construction projects run more efficiently and reduce congestion and circling traffic. As our cities expand, and populations gravitate towards them, it becomes evident how valuable the management of our construction related traffic becomes, as construction is not stopping anytime soon! Grid have engaged with various London boroughs to demonstrate the value of Kerb in this sector, with live deployments expected throughout 2020 - so keep your eyes peeled! n

Intelligent air quality monitoring

A more intelligent approach to Clean Air Zones is possible. A web-based dashboard provides air quality insights through intelligent threshold monitoring, says Ben Fielden, Brand Manager, EMSOL

Not a week goes by without some sort of story that proposes a ban on some sort of vehicle as a way of tackling air quality issues. In addition to work on Clean Air Zones (CAZs), government committees have been having their say, recommending that the ban on selling new diesel and petrol cars needs to be brought forward to 2035, from its current date of 2040. While the cities and legislators are pressing ahead with bans or CAZs, we want to pause and question if they are really the only tool for achieving improved air quality. Whilst always well-intentioned, the reality is that even where they work well, there will always be vehicles and emissions that require management in order to mitigate their impacts on local communities. To be honest, we are not particularly strongly pro- or anti- the banning of certain vehicles. Our preferred approach is to work collaboratively with a number of partners across different sectors to achieve reductions in air quality. Our end goal is to improve air quality so, in some respects, we can supplement

CAZs where they do exist, and provide an easily deployable solution for where they don’t. We feel that we have a good case study of how this can be achieved. At Queen’s Square, Croydon, we worked with a number of partners, including the London Borough of Croydon, to track a range of pollutants (PM10, PM2.5, PM1, CO, O3, SO2, NO2) and noise generated from the construction of their new town centre development. As Queen’s Square is promised to be the new creative quarter for Croydon, it shouldn’t be one that starts off by polluting the local area. The purpose of this project was simple: to see if a tool could be integrated to automate the council’s monitoring at the Queen’s Square site, managing high levels of noise and air pollution exposure for local residents, and also be built into future construction logistics compliance? The answer, of course, was yes. The resulting tool captured baseline noise and air quality information at eight locations around the

development site, providing full coverage of vehicles and assets entering and leaving. From this, those working on the site could understand where emission breaches had occurred, providing the main contractor with information on how their site is performing, and which fleets and vehicles warrant closer inspection or checks on driver behaviour, such as leaving engines idling. With real-time continuous monitoring, we provided Croydon with live alert warnings when emission breaches were imminent. But you may be thinking…well we could just do all this by just banning the most polluting vehicles, right? Banning vehicles may achieve your air quality objectives. But we are achieving something more; we are giving a greater level of understanding to a local authority or contractor who wants to manage air quality events when they do occur, see who caused them, and provide insights on which to base action. In short, we’re taking an intelligent approach to tackling the air quality problem. n

HOSTS & ORGANISERS STAnD: J1-J2 A modern, eﬀective transport system is what deﬁnes great international cities (and city regions). Connecting people to employment, education and leisure also supports and grows the economy. As part of the Northern Powerhouse, Liverpool City Region are already delivering better, smarter transport options for those who live and work here.

Working with other northern cities and regions through Transport for the North (TfN) means even greater opportunity for a transport network that reaps beneﬁts on a much larger scale, improving travel, and all the services that go with it, across all of the North. www.liverpoolcityregionca.gov.uk

Merseytravel is the executive body that provides professional, strategic and operational transport advice to the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority to enable it to make informed decisions. It is also the delivery arm, making transport happen.

Merseytravel oversees the public transport network and is responsible for coordinating bus and rail services, maintaining transport infrastructure, providing public transport information and operating the Mersey road tunnels, the Mersey Ferries and their associated visitor attractions. www.merseytravel.gov.uk

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Landor LINKS’ team delivers authoritative information, news and analysis across the transport and urban sectors. Our core expertise and excellent relationships are rooted in more than 25 years’ experience as sector-leading publishers, communicators, event specialists, marketeers and professional networkers.

We connect with local, regional and central government, universities and research bodies, suppliers, consultants, contractors, industry groups and service providers across the UK, Europe and internationally.

We bring together experts from an ever-increasing range of backgrounds and skillsets to forge new partnerships and foster unprecedented types of collaboration. www.landor.co.uk

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At Atkins we believe that efficient, reliable local transport networks with easy, safe and affordable access to products and services, are essential to future proofing infrastructure and supporting sustainable communities and local economies capable of capitalising on growth. From future mobility solutions and asset management to highway maintenance and mass transit, we provide services across the full transport ecosystem.

We develop integrated solutions based on commercially sustainable delivery models that maximise beneﬁts, enable better investment planning, operation and maintenance decisions, reduce waste and maximise asset longevity; delivering safer, improved user experiences and supporting the integration of future mobility solutions into existing and new transport infrastructure. www.atkinsglobal.com

We have engineered and built infrastructure for over 150 years. Mott MacDonald engineers and project managers have taken lead roles in the world’s highest proﬁle transport schemes, tunnels and bridges, coastal defences, irrigation dams, energy infrastructure, sports stadia and airports.

Yet, this is the tip of a deep iceberg. Our clients have access to a vast depth of knowledge and a network of world-class experts, including environmentalists, planners, economists, legal advisers, cost consultants and business strategists. By working together, they show you how to save money and time, reduce risks, increase eﬃciency and advance best practice. www.mottmacdonald.com

We work with our agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps the UK’s businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. We plan and invest in transport infrastructure to keep the UK on the move. Our priorities are:

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Aimsun is an international team of technologists, scientists, and transportation engineers with a singular focus on solving the world’s most complex mobility problems.

The team brings its experience to projects as diverse as modeling the interaction of public and private vehicles to simulating the role of artiﬁcial intelligence and machine learning, testing autonomous vehicles, or oﬀering insights into smarter multi-modal transportation choices. www.aimsun.com

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We’re kerb obsessed. It began when we launched AppyParking, the tool that makes parking easy for everyone. By working so closely with Local Authorities, we realised the huge, untapped potential lying right under all of our feet. The humble kerb, with the power to transform our cities. Right then AppyWay was born.

Now armed with best-in-class kerbside data, APIs and full stack management systems, we know kerbs are our key to tackling urban issues of modern-day living: congestion, mobility, pollution, even dying high streets. www.appyway.com

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BetterPoints is a world-leading scalable and customisable behaviour change platform. Our award-winning technology motivates, incentivises and encourages in three key areas: Sustainability, the Environment and Health & Wellbeing. Founded in 2010, BetterPoints Ltd has been at the forefront of incentive-led Behavioural Change technology, enabling organisations around the world to motivate and reward both employees and stakeholders to make positive choices about how they self-

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manage their health, reduce their Carbon Footprint and care for their communities.

We help businesses, throughout England, develop clean and green products, services and processes through access to research expertise and facilities at our three regional university hubs. Northern Hub: Liverpool John Moores University

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South West hub: Greentech South – University of Portsmouth We are funded through Research England to work across England, with organisations of any size. Our available support consists of: l Specialist University expertise and facilities

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Connected Kerb have developed an infrastructure solution that enables future communities through connectivity. Their smart cities platform integrates both power and data at the kerbside to support electric and autonomous vehicles, and the application of advanced IoT technologies. Their vision is to create smart, sustainable and future-proofed streets. www.connectedkerb.com

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Data Performance Consultancy has been working closely with Liverpool City Council (LCC) and with the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA) in the development of a portal to deliver social value measurement across the supply chain. As part of the development process DPC is

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working with Blackburn with Darwin, Liverpool City Council and AGMA to develop a proof of concept to take the portal from a linear feed to a platform as a services model.

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Established in 2017, EMSOL’s mission is to help our customers take steps every day to make a lasting diﬀerence in reducing transport pollution. As a data focused business, our online dashboard platform enables companies to proactively take air quality action. emsol.io

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Emu Analytics is a London-based SME who create innovative software that analyses and visualises geographical data. Our online software is transforming the way local authorities beneﬁt from geospatial data by ensuring it is quick and easy to analyse and visualise within beautiful and intuitive maps – so that everyone in your team can easily understand and gain insights from the data to empower your decisions. Our software takes care of all the technical aspects of using location data and creating maps so you can concentrate on what you want to show and how to show it. Our goal is to aid you in using your data to maximum eﬀect so you and your communities can get the most value out of it to understand citizen needs and improve your town and city. www.emu-analytics.com

funding from IUK in 2017, Vivid Economics and Barton Willmore have been collaborating with the European Centre for Environment & Human Health at the University of Exeter to develop advanced methodologies for valuing the social (physical health & wellbeing), environmental (carbon sequestration and air quality) and economic beneﬁts greenspace provides. www.greenkeeperuk.co.uk

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Founded in 2014, Grid Smarter Cities is a two-sided platform company of smart technology, looking to create win-win solutions to solve problems in our cities, improving the quality of life for citizens, making them happier, safer and most cost eﬀective places to be. We want to improve air quality and reduce congestion by better managing the kerb space, using our Intelligent Kerbside Management solution, ‘Kerb’. We hope this will have a positive impact on the environment, reduce mileage and improve air quality – and in turn increase life expectancy for a safer urban environment. www.gridsmartercities.com

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Intelligent Data is the leading brand in the transport data collection sector providing our clients with evidence based data collection, monitoring and compliance services. At Intelligent Data we care passionately about the quality and delivery of the data we provide to our clients who include Highway Authorities, Police Forces, Transport Consultants and National government agencies.

www.intelligentdatacollection.com

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Greenkeeper is a new online tool, developed to help us more eﬀectively value urban green infrastructure. Since securing

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JENOPTIK Traffic Solutions UK is the company behind SPECS; the most widely used average speed enforcement system available. To date, over 500 SPECS installations have been operated, including a number of 20mph schemes, successfully reducing casualties, collisions and improving traffic flows.

Roads monitored by SPECS typically see a >70% KSI (Killed or Seriously Injured) reduction, when installed as part of a casualty reduction scheme; this on average saves more than £1m in casualty costs, per site, per year. Jenoptik are world leaders in applying this technology to real world solutions. www.jenoptik.com

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The LHOFT (Liverpool-Humber Optimisation of Freight Transport) project is an ambitious, Innovate UK funded project that uniquely brings together key stakeholders in the unitised freight industries with the aim of establishing an East-West freight transport corridor in the north of the UK. This corridor will link Liverpool in the West to the Humber port complex in the East. This will deliver several anticipated advantages from a cost, environmental and resilience perspective for businesses operating in the north of the UK. It will also contribute to alleviating congestion in the southern UK ports and the North-South transport corridors. gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=102613

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Liftshare was the ﬁrst car-sharing system provider in the UK and after 21 years in business remains the largest. Providing both public and private sector organisations with innovative technology which allows them to monitor and reduce their carbon footprint, make the best use

of parking facilities, achieve sustainable travel plan targets and provide staﬀ with a cost eﬀective and environmentally friendly way of getting to work. www.liftshare.com

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Magway is a sustainable zeroemissions solution for transporting goods through pipelines. It addresses the increased volume of parcel deliveries, from the rapid growth in e-commerce and the resulting impact of heavy and light goods vehicles (HGV/LGVs) on the environment and an inadequate road infrastructure.

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Passenger delivers scalable digital technology to public transport operators. This includes mobile app ticketing, travel information apps, data feeds, websites and voice technology. Our digital services platform, Passenger Cloud, empowers operators and their teams to deliver a customer experience that makes sustainable, shared mass transit a convenient travel option. www.discoverpassenger.com

Other applications include movement of goods into and around airports as well as across large manufacturing sites. www.magway.com

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Towards the new normal: more people cycling, more often

Their ﬂeet includes commercial and domestic cargo bikes, e-bikes, city bikes, tandems, tourers, mountain bikes and Carla Cargo trailers. Services include: Bike Hire; Bike Sales; Repairs – retail or corporate; Electric Cargo Bike Loan Scheme; Cycle logistics; Public bike share; Cycle events and Guided bike tours. www.manchesterbikehire.co.uk

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As a leading expert in the promotion of active and sustainable travel, Pindar Creative have been producing accurate, high-quality and time-sensitive travel information for many years. We work in partnership with a wide range of clients including local and combined authorities, bus and rail operators, universities and colleges, schools, the NHS, and corporate businesses. As well as oﬀering cartography, wayﬁnding, roadside displays, bus and rail timetables, onward travel information and responsive, interactive mapping websites, we have developed a number of innovative solutions that enable our clients to partially, or fully automate the production of their travel information. www.pindarcreative.co.uk

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The Merseyside Road Safety Partnership is committed to improving road safety across the Liverpool City Region.

Their vision is to reduce the numbers of those killed and seriously injured to fewer than 400 by 2020, with the ultimate vision of a future where no-one is killed on Merseyside’s roads and the injury rate is reduced.

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QRoutes helps local authorities ﬁnd budget savings while coping with increased demand for home-toschool transport, including Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. Since its launch in 2016, QRoutes has helped its customers ﬁnd over £4m (and counting) in contract

costs. It also

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Rediweld is a leading UK manufacturer of an extensive range of Road Safety Products, which we have been expanding to include a series of Cycle Lane Separators.

Green innovation is at the centre of our product development programme with Traffic Calming and cycle safety as our primary focus. The Lane Separators and Splitter Islands are the result of extensive consultation with engineers, planners, cycling groups and local authorities, including TfL. It is this degree of collaboration that has helped us develop successful products that have met our objectives. Along with our cycle lane separators we also offer a wide range of Traffic calming products offering various safety measures compared to traditional materials which offer cost effective solutions, reduced permit costs and no excavations. www.rediweldtraffic.co.uk

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Rosehill Highways is a market leading manufacturer of surface mounted engineered rubber cycle scheme solutions and traﬃc calming products.

For cyclists of all abilities, cycle lane segregation is paramount to ensure they feel safe and protected from motor vehicles, allowing them to maintain a good level of continuous and conﬁdent riding. Come and see us on our stand where we’ll be displaying our Cycle Lane Defender and Lane Separator. We’ll be able to show you how quick and easy they are to install and

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In an increasingly data-driven and digitalised world, our expertise in the design, manufacture, installation, maintenance and operation of intelligent infrastructure provides us with an unrivalled ability to help transport managers and operators and provide real benefits to our customers, the travelling public and wider society. From intelligent traffic control, congestion charging and clean air zone solutions to managed services, co-operative systems, traffic enforcement and electric vehicle charging infrastructure, Siemens Mobility has the vision, expertise and product portfolio to enable transport and city managers to deliver on their goals: keeping road users safe, balancing emissions with transport efficiency and optimising transport modes, assets and network performance. www.siemens.com

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Our energy system is changing dramatically; therefore it is important that SP Energy Networks responds to the opportunities that are created by the growth in demand and supply from low carbon technologies such as Electric Vehicles (EVs). SP Energy Networks is the Distribution Network Operator for the Merseyside, Cheshire, North Shropshire and North Wales area and we are dedicated to preparing for the wide-scale adoption of electric vehicles required to help meet Liverpool City Region’s ambitious climate change and air pollution targets. www.spenergynetworks.co.uk

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SP Energy Networks have taken a taken a leading role in the industry Open Networks Project and our integrated operations in Distribution and Transmission means our Operational Control Centre is already equipped to begin this journey.

Our exciting new project EVOLVE continues this innovative model and will implement network automation onto the LV electricity network across our SP Manweb licence area, including our mesh networks in the urban areas of Liverpool City Region and Cheshire and Warrington. We look forward to developing a demonstrator model for the system in the up and coming Baltic Quarter in the city centre of Liverpool where we will showcase some of the new initiatives we will be rolling out across our licence area. www.spenergynetworks.co.uk

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Street Systems have extensive experience at all stages of Built Environment project delivery providing either permanent or temporary data collection and analysis. Our use of Machine Vision to automatically extract traﬃc data from video footage oﬀers added value over and above other methodologies.

As well as delivering short surveys Streets Systems supplies and maintains permanent equipment collecting and storing real time data on the movement of peoples and vehicles. Deployments include Newcastle Urban Observatory, Europe’s largest deployment of real time urban sensors. www.streets.systems

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Tandem adapts the 21st century transport technologies emerging in big cities and adapts them for towns and small cities. We're starting by turning local taxis into shared micro buses - creating a new way for people to get to work, healthcare, shops and more. Our three-sided marketplace links passengers, local taxi providers and - crucially - third parties, like employment agencies, shopping

centres and hospitals, introducing a new revenue stream that helps make the model scalable in smaller geographies. www.ridetandem.co

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TerOpta Ltd is an SME and a R and D consultancy company based in the East and West Midlands and operating for nine years. Our team members are all highly experienced and skilled Electronics Design Engineers, with over 200 years of experience and skills sets covering Comms and IoT Systems design, R.F. Analogue, Digital and Photonics design fields, including FPGA, Embedded Software and low-level software development and PCB Design and Manufacture. We are able to offer services from turnkey design to the manufacture and supply of electronics systems, and have a keen interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), and the benefits this can bring to our daily lives. We are currently developing the REVIS monitoring system specifically targeted for the monitoring of health endangering pollutants such as NO2, CO, PMs in our highways and associated construction environments. www.teropta.com

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The most comprehensive transport data platform for the UK

We are Britain’s ﬁrst, comprehensive open solution for transport data. We’ve got over 1500 developers and organisations building on our platform with all the open data feeds you need from our key industry sources. Open content, no downstream IP with simple pricing structures backed by guarantees. www.transportapi.com

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The Transport Data Initiative is led by local authorities who believe that

improving the way we collect, store, and use data will help us deliver improved transport services while reducing costs of delivery. With our uncompromising focus on the common transport challenges faced by all local authorities, we facilitate deep and targeted collaboration across the sector, by helping solution providers design services which meet the unique requirements of local authorities and improving awareness within local authorities of the capacities of the wider marketplace.

business models that might support them, through our New Mobility Now and Making Better Places research.

WSP is unique in taking a wider, pragmatic view of the smart and active mobility agenda to understand the impact on the physical environment, assets and their uses – bringing together policy-makers and the private sector. www.wsp.com

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Vivacity has developed and patented award-winning Artificial Intelligence technology that continuously captures and classifies live transport usage, 24/7. Their sensor hardware provides continuous and anonymous streams of data on all forms of mobility – from pedestrian to cyclist, car to HGV, and everything in-between. Vivacity has over 3000 sensors deployed across the UK, on roads, footpaths, in rail stations, and even on sports pitches gathering unprecedented data for their clients. Their Machine Learning based predictive capability consumes historic and live data about a road network, and uses this to predict traffic levels in the coming minutes and hours. . vivacitylabs.com

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WSP is one of the world's leading professional services consulting ﬁrms. We are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower. We are technical experts and strategic advisors including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors and environmental specialists. With 7,800 talented people in the UK, we engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come. For a number of years and together with clients, we’ve been exploring what connected, autonomous, shared and electric vehicles will mean in practice, and the new

You. Smart. Thing. is a cloud-based travel demand management platform for destination owners that need to manage people-ﬂow and visitor experience. It utilises unique identity governance technology and an innovative distributed Travel Assistant interface.

By embedding the You. Smart. Thing. Travel Assistant into existing customer touchpoints organisations can offer personalised travel advice to employees and visitors to their venues and events. The platform offers the capability to deliver bespoke routing to a range of destinations including offices or factories, health and education institutions, transport hubs, sports stadiums, theatres and festivals. www.yousmartthing.com

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Zenzic (formerly Meridian) was created by government and industry to champion the connected and self-driving ecosystem and accelerate the selfdriving revolution in the UK. The company drives collaboration with partners across industry, government and academia to shape a world-class Testbed UK, and to deliver a comprehensive UK Connected and Automated Mobility Roadmap to 2030. Zenzic is channelling £200 million of investment, with the goal of ensuring a safer, more inclusive and productive mobile future. zenzic.io

Welcome and Plenary panel Liverpool City Region is getting cleaner and smarter

Wednesday 23 October

PROGRAMME

Panellists from key sectors across the Combined Authority will welcome delegates to Liverpool and outline how the region is moving towards being a low carbon economy.

Mark Dickens

Lead Oﬃcer for Spatial Planning

Lorna Rogers

Head of Mayoral Programme Delivery

Mark Knowles

Lead, Low Carbon / Energy Strategy

John McGee

Head of Government Relations

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Using game principles and technology to engage citizens

Beat the Street uses innovate communications to engage citizens in order to transform community-wide levels of active travel by turning a town or city into a game. Players register walking and cycling journeys by tapping a smartcard on RFID readers.

Marc Harris

Evidence and Research Lead

Can DRT services work for rural areas?

Declining ridership, poor emissions standards, long waits and journey times are key issues facing rural communities. Can demand responsive technology help to improve the efficiency of rural bus services and, if so, how can this help local government? This talk will discuss the efficiency savings of hybrid of fixed route and demand responsive zones rather than traditional fixed routes.

Tom Williams

Director of Innovation

Towards a dynamic allocation of street-space in urban areas

MaaS, Electric vehicles, automated vehicles and delivery drones call for a rethink of the functions and design of major urban roads. Peter Jones explains how road space management in real time is being addressed in the EU-funded MORE project.

Peter Jones

Professor of Transport & Sustainable Development, UCL

SYSTRA has created an innovative marketing and communications plan to maximise opportunities for managing travel demand. The Bridgwater Way (TBW) is a project focused on helping to keep Bridgwater moving as the town goes through a period of signiﬁcant growth and investment.

Kirsty Whittaker

Senior Transport Planner

What could the future of rural transport look like?

Nick and Beate will explore the case for the modernisation of rural transport, looking at the Peak Power rural communities transport programme and AV opportunities that go beyond the UK’s vehicle-only strategies.

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The Travelwest challenge: public engagement using a digital app

To encourage sustainable travel, six diﬀerent behaviour change techniques were employed: feedback, social support, behavioural practice/rehearsal, behavioural substitution, generalisation of target behaviour and identiﬁcation as a role model, with 'prizes' for challenge 'winners'.

Plenary Zone

Morning Keynote

Smart solutions for resilience planning

Chair: Peter Jones Professor of Transport & Sustainable Development, UCL

Steve Rotheram Metro Mayor

Chris Bristow

Chief Operating Oﬃcer

Plans from the city’s ﬁrst Climate Change champion

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The bus isn’t going away

By combining new technology such as signals technology and vehicle detection systems with ongoing commitment to sustainable transport, WSP and Leeds City Council have re-imagined the city’s transport infrastructure.

Beate Kubitz

Sophie Best

Consultant

Transport Planner

nick Bromley

Joel Dodsworth

Consultant

Visions for a zero carbon, resilient north

UTMC Manager

Cllr Laura Robertson-Collins

Cabinet Member for Environment and Sustainability

Transition to a low carbon economy Henri Murison

Director

Optimising electric charging infrastructure

Frank Mitchell

CEO

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Digitising the kerbside

Councils are faced with ever-increasing demands for access to their kerbside for parking, loading, deliveries and setting down passengers. Creating a digital twin of the city will enable councils to better manage their valuable kerbside assets and create more liveable streets.

Dan Hubert

CEO & Founder

Urban cycling: data collection and micro movement analysis with computer vision using AI software

New data collection methods pose important questions about how we use this data, and how policy makers can, and should, react when faced with inequalities in allocations of space, time and quality of service for cyclists and pedestrians at junctions.

Tom Bailey

Development Director

Reducing freight impacts

Dr Adele Carter

Project Manager, LHOFT: Liverpool Humber Optimisation of Freight Transport

Decarbonising the LCR

Cllr Liam Robinson

Portfolio Holder Transport & Air Quality

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Workshop: embracing innovation on the road to zero carbon

Llewelyn Morgan

Head of Innovation

A roadmap for Local Authorities

Hackney: Implementing ULEV streets

This talk will explore how policy, legislative and institutional frameworks encourage or discourage the implementation of Ultra Low Emission Streets.

Luuk van Kessel

Senior Transport Planner

Liverpool and Humber Freight Optimisation (LHOFT)

LHOFT will provide a resilient and environmentally-friendly freight network for businesses, ports and logistics services along the M62 corridor and in the North.

Amar Ramudhin

Professor and Director, Logistics Institute

Equal streets

This talk takes a close look at inequalities in relation to children, disabled people and women, and anyone wishing to walk or cycle.

Lucy Marstrand Transport Planner

Cleaner air for all: challenges and opportunities

This session will inform local authorities about free initiatives and resources to help cities improve air pollution, with a view to getting more people and organisations involved and providing them with the tools to improve air quality and health.

Larissa Lockwood

Head of Health and Air Quality

Intelligent data collection

In a time of rapid change in the transport sector, there are many opportunities for improving data collection, processing and compliance.

Paul O'neill, Director

Future Streets: a revolution in Greater Manchester

Using a unique methodology to identify a series of key interventions that put cyclists and pedestrians ﬁrst, ‘Streets for All’ is an orbital pilot corridor study. It aims to stimulate regeneration, reduce congestion and improve the health of the region.

James Rayner Director

Chris Sibthorpe

Projects Director

Smart air quality communication and modelling

Primary research provides insight into the attitudes and travel behaviour of owners and users of older/more-polluting vehicles, their likely response to Clean Air Zone charging measures, and the level of support for this type of intervention among the wider public.

Paul Osborne

Developing Liver EV network

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Addressing Congestion Using Telematics Evidence (ACUTE)

ACUTE explores the potential for repurposing archival telematics data to provide an accurate and highly-resolved picture of congestion across the road network.

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Mark Burke Data Research Scientist

Disability, cycling & health: impacts & (missed) opportunities in public health & transport policy for smarter streets Improving opportunities for disabled people, who have the poorest physical and mental health outcomes of the population.

Dr Kay Inckle

Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology

Delivering eﬀect Mobility solution

Establishing parameter Zones: eﬀective future support.

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Dave Atkinson

Head of Programmes and Smart Place

Innovation Hub Manager

Carrie Brook

Project Manager and PMO

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The talk will explore charging behaviours, procurement models and vehicle market trends, helping authorities to decide the best charging types to consider.

David Brown

Fiona Appleton

Principal Transport Planner

Relationship Manager, Local Transport (North)

Powered two-wheelers: an air quality solution

Devolving responsibility to local authorities to provide air quality solutions could mean that no co-ordinated approach to improving air quality is developed. MAG outlines how powered two-wheelers can be part of a national solution.

Plan ahead and keep moving in the West Midlands The scale of disruption around major housing, transport and regeneration schemes in the region oﬀers a signiﬁcant opportunity to work with residents, businesses and visitors.

Colin Brown

Deborah Fox

Director of Campaigns and Political Engagement

Head of Demand Management

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The MILL (Mobility Innovation Living Laboratory) is a new innovation centre aiming to establish Dundee as a real-life test and experimentation environment for smart mobility solutions.

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Anna Day

Partnerships Manager

Account Director

Using Artiﬁcial Intelligence to cut the cost of home-to-school transport QRoutes has developed an Artiﬁcial Intelligence (AI) module which uses actual local authority data and shows how large savings can be made.

Liz Davidson

Marketing Oﬃcer

Adrian Weissenbruch

A smart simulation platform to develop further mobility solutions

Immense have built a cutting-edge, cloudhosted Simulation-as a-Service platform, enabling both cities and mobility operators to diagnose issues.

Luke Rust

Head of Commercial Development

PA Transport Manager

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Annette Smith

Transport Consultant

Flexible streets and ‘smart carpet’ modular paving

Dave Murphy Associate

Michael Cowdy Director

Andrew Caleya Chetty

Partner & Chief Strategy Oﬃcer

Flexibly managing the kerbside for commercial operators

Grid Smarter Cities explores the value of our city kerb space, and how flexible usage, and smarter management, can bring both operational efficiency and societal benefits to those that live and work in the city.

Julian Wrigley CIO

Advances in measuring urban mobility and risk in streets

The increasing power of data informs our understanding and directs our actions, yet decisions regarding improved mobility, infrastructure changes, reallocation of space or modal shift campaigns are still taken without a full understanding of the street environment.

Dr Craig Smith

Data Scientist

Dr George Ursachi

Senior Research Analyst

Closing plenary

Delivering real beneﬁts for citizens

Chair

James Gleave

Founder and Director, Transport Futures

Liverpool 5G testbed: using low-cost, open source 5G networks, artiﬁcial intelligence, virtual reality and IoT to improve health and social care Ann Williams

Lead, 5G Health and Social Care pilot

Demand-side social and urban innovation: using the city as a lab Ana Paola Lopez Social and Urban Innovation Specialist

Connecting the tech ecosystem and local government for meaningful transformation Georgina Maratheftis

Head of Local Public Services

Digital planning: beneﬁts for urban networks, traﬃc and utility infrastructure Stefan Webb

Director of Digitising Planning

Greenkeeper: a tool for valuing and enhancing urban green infrastructure Therese KargerLerchl Senior Economist

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Day 2 Welcome

Smart, clean and user-friendly infrastructure

Thursday 24 October

PROGRAMME

Chair

Cllr Gill Wood

Deputy Portfolio Holder, Energy & Low Carbon

Building shared transport services that integrate with local government and communities

Paul Hodgins

CEO, Ginger & former Leader, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

Improving future transport options and meeting passenger expectations through the use of satellite technology John Vesey

Health and Wellbeing

Improved transport and digital infrastructure using nextgeneration data science

Professor nigel Cassidy

Board member, Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure

Bringing city, real estate, technology and innovation professionals together

Lauren Poon

Head of Digital, EMEA, CallisonRTK and ViceChair, The Urban Land Institute (ULI) UK Urban Technology Framework

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Workshop: the future of EV infrastructure

Hear fromthe the private local authority partners Hear from private andand local authority partners who are merging transport and electricity who areplanning mergingtotransport andmap electricity network create a road for public EV infrastructure networks. network planning to create a road map for public EV What came ﬁrst? The chargepoint or the car? Find out about the Charge project, and join the infrastructure.

Innovati

debate about the future of electric vehicles with opinion polls, quizzes, and prizes.

A revolutionary parcel delivery pipeline

Magway is a 'delivery utility', delivering parcels between distribution centres and consolidation centres via underground pipelines similar to those used by water, gas and electricity companies.

Phil Davies Co-Founder

Data, AR, human emotion and social impact

How Augmented Reality and Immersive Technology has the ability to impact on behaviour change and the way people feel towards their environment and cities.

Hana Sutch

Partner

Zenzic: UK Connected and Automated Roadmap 2030

The roadmap is a tool, created by and intended for multiple sectors, forging new relationships and achieving collaboration across industries. It provides direction for decision makers, investors and policy makers for the mobile future.

Tristan Bacon

Research Associate

FUTURES: Future Uncertainty Toolkit for Understanding and Responding to an Evolving Society

A new approach to transport planning that enables clients to decide on their direction of travel and provides measures to support decision making at the planning stage.

Ride happy, walk happy, arrive happy: decarbonising transport

The Liverpool City Region is helping to decarbonise transport by developing a Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan on a massive scale.

Catherine Tomlin

John Smith

Professor Glenn Lyons

Programme Development Oﬃcers

Transport Planner

Civil enforcement as part of a smart transport ecosystem

Civil enforcement solutions are important elements of smart transport eco-systems. An efficient system offers benefits such as reduced congestion, increased economic efficiency, improved road safety, better air quality and helps tackle transport challenges and support policy objectives.

Ade Worgan

How can local authorities enable the best future mobility outcome from new development?

Future Mobility is changing the way we consider the impacts of new developments; moving away from assessing traditional vehicles modes and instead understanding the mobility business models that overlay them.

Emily Ellis

Consultant

Claire Hering

A one way electric car-sharing system

Can car-sharing be made more proﬁtable by overcoming the redistribution problem?The ESPRIT project aims to develop electric vehicles which can be connected together and driven in a road train like supermarket trolleys, using an optimised system design that can cover costs and possibly make a proﬁt.

Majid Adeeb

Principal Consultant

Developing Liverpool’s EV network

Liverpool City Council has been concentrating on residential street infrastructure using streetlight columns and, as part of the CHARGE project, working with the power utility to upgrade public charging networks.

David Brown

Principal Transport Planner

on Lead

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Dr Laurence Chittock

Dr Laura Kane

Associate Transport Planner

Adrian Vinsome

Senior Consultant

Principal Consultant

Seminar sponsored by:

An urban planning platform

This talk will explore how policy, legislative and institutional frameworks encourage or discourage the implementation of Ultra Low Emission Streets.

Jonathan Moore

Optimise Prime: commercial EVs

Optimise Prime is the world’s biggest trial of commercial EVs. It seeks to understand and minimise the impact the electriﬁcation of commercial vehicles will have on distribution networks, and enable faster transition to electric for commercial ﬂeets and private hire vehicle operators.

Developing Digital Roads and Improving Air Quality - nEVFMA The Oxfordshire solution

This talk will investigate the impact of diﬀerent traﬃc management strategies in real-time on the Oxford City road network and strategic interurban routes such as the A34 and A40.

Dr Sung Pil Oe

Gavin Jackman

Innovation Project Lead

City Executive, Manchester and the North

Managing Director

Seminar sponsored by:

Results from the 2019 MaaS Survey The annual Landor LINKS MaaS Survey is now in its third year, and is recording the changes and developments in MaaS and new mobility innovation, as well as attitudes, hopes and fears across in the sector. Key ﬁndings from the 2019 survey.

Coding the road for a connected mobility future

The way in which use of the kerbside is regulated and managed will need to become increasingly accurate in order to accommodate the wide range of people and organisations wanting to use it.

Smarter trains for the Liverpool City Region

Merseyrail’s new ﬂeet of trains will be introduced over the course of 2020/21, featuring wireless connectivity, real-time CCTV monitoring, smarter passenger information and, potentially, battery traction.

Dan Hubert

Beate Kubitz

David Powell

CEO & Founder

Editor

Programme Director, Rolling Stock

Seminar sponsored by:

The Future of Your Street

Nearly half of all vehicle owners – 43% – do not have a driveway, which is why we at Connected Kerb believe the only viable option is a low power, low cost, low impact residential solution which can be rolled out nationally. We work with local authorities to deliver non-clutter solutions.

Richard Clements Founder

Prioritising clean air

Poor air quality is the largest environmental risk to public health in the UK. Clean air is essential for towns and cities to be welcoming, healthy and sustainable. James Riley reviews the challenges associated with the implementation of Clean Air and Low Emissions Zones, and explores how cities and local authorities can maximise their beneﬁts.

James Riley

A ﬁstful of carbon

Arming local authorities with the tools to ﬁght for Carbon Zero futures.

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Decarbonising transport Chair

Peter Stonham

Chairman

How future mobility can help the climate emergency

Giles Perkins

Head of Mobility

Emerging transport technologies and how they can best be adopted by local authorities and stakeholders Anna Day Partnerships

Decarbonising the UK rail network

Helen McAllister

Head of Strategic Planning (Freight and National Passenger Operators)

Blending public, private and institutional sectors for innovative solutions for urban mobility David Leipziger

Innovation Lead for Cities & Mobility

Fostering experimentation and trialling in urban areas

Harriet Greene Head, Future of Mobility Team

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SP Energy Networks is partnering with EA Technology, Smarter Grid Solutions and PTV to deliver CHARGE, which will, for the first time, merge transport and electricity network planning to create an overarching map of where EV charge points will be required, and where they can be best accommodated by the electricity grid. Despite EV charging taking place at home and in the work place, there will still be a need for on-street and public charge points. These charge points may be required by those who do not have a driveway; those living in flats, apartments or terraced houses. Charging facilities are likely to also be required at leisure and shopping centres, tourist attractions, or filling station forecourts. CHARGE will allow a better understanding of the network impact of different types of chargepoint, taking into account location, the hardware installed, use patterns and whether flexible connection arrangements can be used. www.spenergynetworks.co.uk/pages/c harge.aspx

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We turn bright ideas into commercial, reality-solving challenges in social care, mobility and sustainability. We work together with Local Authorities to identify challenges, leverage the ideas and skills within to create products that not only meet your needs but could also help others in the same situation. We understand that you’re time and resource stretched. That talent and ideas within organisations often goes unnoticed and that products are bought not because they really solve problems but because they are there. This needs to change.

We’ll take the heavy lifting out of developing solutions so that your experience and ideas can be leveraged. We do things diﬀerently, from the way we work to the way we help you succeed. Challenging? Yes, but we know the answer is forty two.

Contact Rob Hale - rob@40two.io, or come and see us on stand D1 & D2. www.40two.io

EA Technology is a specialist in asset management solutions for owners and operators of electrical assets. Headquartered in the UK, our operations and customers are global with seven regional oﬃces around the world.

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We are committed to providing our customers with innovative products and services, consultancy and training which deliver tangible beneﬁts for their businesses enabling them to create safer, stronger and smarter networks for today and the future. We work with many clients on a long-term basis to safeguard their power networks. We can advise on strategy and implementation solutions using a range of products, providing an ongoing service to ensure the reliability of equipment, together with highly trained customers’ staﬀ in specialist areas. Our software helps our customers to manage their assets to achieve maximum life and reduce costs. www.eatechnology.com

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Innovate UK drives productivity and economic growth by supporting businesses to turn ideas into commercially successful products and services and business growth.

We fund business and research collaborations to accelerate innovation and drive business investment into R&D. Our support is available to businesses across all economic sectors, value chains and UK regions. Innovate UK is part of UK Research and Innovation. For more information visit Innovateuk.ukri.org Innovate UK will be joined on the exhibition stand with the following organisations: 1. EMU Analytics 2. EMSOL 3. LHOFT

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PTV Group is a market leader in the development of transport planning, traﬃc engineering and logistics planning and optimisation software worldwide. The solutions of PTV Group are cuttingedge and state-of-the-art and our clients apply our software on innovative and sustainable projects and designs.

PTV Group has a strong team of experienced software developers, research scientists, engineers, planners and business experts, who have inherent knowledge of PTV software. PTV also provides a range of services to its clients to help them use PTV software to its fullest potential, through on-the-job technical support, training courses, software maintenance and advice on modelling tasks for particularly complex projects. www.ptvgroup.com

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We are SP Energy Networks. As a Distribution and Transmission Network Operator we keep electricity ﬂowing to homes and businesses throughout Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales, Merseyside, Cheshire and North Shropshire.

We do this through the network of Overhead Lines and Underground Cables which we own and maintain. No matter who you pay your bill to, we’re the people to contact if you have a power cut, need a new or upgraded power connection or spot an issue with our equipment. Our three regulated electricity businesses are: l SP Transmission PLC (SPT) l SP Distribution PLC (SPD) l SP Manweb PLC (SPM)

www.spenergynetworks.co.uk

Smarter Grid Solutions is a rapidly growing, UK-headquartered enterprise software company operating globally from bases in the UK and USA.

Our products were developed and proven in markets with high penetrations of DER and renewables before successfully transferring them to international markets. Over the last 10-15 years we have invested in developing and refining a platform with its supporting integration environment, that allows our partners to build their own solutions, create their own propositions and develop their own IP. We help our customers and partners to design and implement solutions integrated by our platform that can include functions such as optimisation, artificial intelligence, data analytics, flexibility markets, online power systems analytics and more. Our organisational capability spans all of these domains. www.smartergridsolutions.com

Venue and event staff claim they spend up to 50 per cent of their time managing travel queries, at an estimated cost of over £1.7 bn to UK GDP. The default solution of embedding or recommending Google Maps often gives insufficient or outdated advice, compounding the problem. The destination and event management software market, worth an estimated £14 bn by 2022, has a projected compact annual growth rate of 11.39 per cent. The UK represents 6.7 per cent (£938m) with Cvent and Eventbrite dominating the corporate, tourism and SME sectors. Leisure venue and event ticketing is dominated by Live Nation’s Ticketmaster. Personalisation and VIP packages, including premium food and beverages, backstage access, preferred seats, and VIP restrooms, are cited as key market drivers. Travel demand management, however, primarily due to its subjectivity and complexity, is a consistent challenge for venue and event owners, threatening profitability and repeat business. Over the last 18 months, an Innovate UK-backed intelligent mobility collaboration between You. Smart. Thing. and Transport for West Midlands has been addressing this gap by combining identity governance software with an innovative distributed Personal Travel Assistant interface. By embedding the You. Smart. Thing. Travel Assistant into existing customer touchpoints, organisations can offer tailored, up-to-date personalised travel assistance, manage demand and curate the visitor experience to their venues and events. Leveraging appetite for personalisation alongside supplychain integration and engagement with venues and events in Central England (Godiva Festival, Symphony Hall, NEC Group), the team are positioning the Travel Assistant as a cost-effective alternative to Google Maps that is complementary to incumbent destination management websites and software systems. The platform offers the capability to design bespoke routing to a range of destinations including offices or factories, health and education institutions, transport hubs, sports stadiums, theatres and festivals. Like Google Maps, the Travel Assistant is easy to add to a website, social media

The smart way to guide people to venues and events

Transport for West Midlands is combining identity governance and a distributed information architecture to create regional partnerships that maximise the visitor experience, says Chris Thompson, Chief Executive Oﬃcer, You. Smart. Thing

Embedded Travel Assistant for Godiva Festival

Step 1: set event ‘access-points’ via the Travel Assistant CMS, based on site layout and travel insight information

Step 2: publish responsive website link, for direct linking from booking conﬁrmation emails and social media sites

post or mobile app. Unlike Google, it offers destination and transport operators a valuable ‘travel forecast’ of people’s intended travel plans, enabling demand management alongside real-time messaging. Features include the ability to curate door-to-door journeys via the most appropriate route, transport modes and complimentary services, including booking assistance. The system maximises the experience and value offered to visitors based on their personal preferences and requirements, whilst licensors benefit from resource optimisation, reduced costs, higher conversion rates and more repeat visits.

Instead of generic 'how to ﬁnd us' information, the Travel Assistant maximises use of customer information to oﬀer tailored routes and personalised journey choices

The creation of personalised travel forecasts is achieved by matching a unique understanding of an individual service users’ specific journey requirement(s), captured at the destination touch-point (for example a website, booking system or app), with real-time transit network information. The Travel Assistant dynamically integrates and delivers highly personalised multimodal journey guidance over existing the transit network and service provider infrastructure and systems, monitoring available services via established data sources. Abstracted mobility intelligence is shared with services providers and transport operators, who in turn leverage this data to understand services and asset utilisation. The creation of a ‘single customer view’ across the supply-chain, exposing demand to rail, bus, carshare or bike hire operators extends the systems commercial opportunity. Collaboration is enabled through the ease of ‘embedding’ the Travel Assistant service. It is interoperable with 3rd party CRM applications, whilst allowing anonymous user data to be shared with public sector and transport operator systems for service planning and demand-responsive delivery. From October 2019 the You. Smart. Thing. Travel Assistant is being marketed as a scalable Software-as-aService platform via a series of further pilot deployments in additional UK regions. This launch

Step 3: paste code snippet from the Travel Assistant CMS in primary online customer touchpoints (i.e. website, mobile app)

Step 4: View/export actionable insights in accordance with service-users’ consent and service provider access permissions

Connecting Local Authority services, transport operators and national agencies

strategy builds on extensive research and development in Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), real-time audience analytics, integrated transport systems management, and successful Innovate UK proof-of-concept trials with transport and destination operators in the Midlands. As part of its Innovate UK project, funded under the Infrastructure

Systems programme, You. Smart. Thing. has conducted an initial assessment of export markets. Founder and CEO, Chris Thompson, explains: ‘Our product roadmap will capitalise on established local authority supply-chain partnerships in the UK and be expanded to maximise domestic coverage, creating a natural stepping-stone to global export markets.’ n

SP Energy Networks is preparing for zero carbon transport across Liverpool City Region Please come along to the SP Energy Networks stands below to find out more about the work we are doing to prepare for the decarbonisation of the transport network. SP Energy Networks and our CHARGE project partners EA Technology, Smarter Grid Solutions and PTV will be on hand to explain further detail on the CHARGE project and how we are integrating transport and electrical network infrastructure plans to accommodate EV charging. You will also be able to speak to SP Energy Networks staff about our project EVOLVE which will bring automation to our LV network, and SP Energy Networks staff who are working to help customers understand how we can connect EV charging for businesses and homes across our licence area.

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Green spaces: a tool to measure impact on health and wellbeing Green infrastructure is vital for quality of life, health and wellbeing in urban areas, and many places are ready to implement green infrastructure strategies that promote densiďŹ cation while supporting mental and physical wellbeing. An online tool, using new data sources and technologies, can help to integrate health and wellbeing beneďŹ ts into green infrastructure strategies, says Therese KargerLerchl, Vivid Economics Within the public sector, the squeezing of budgets has been much publicised in recent months. In tandem, across the UK, we are increasingly seeing a drive for urban intensification in our towns and cities as we seek to respond to the housing crisis. How can we respond to these pressures in a way which also considers the importance of placemaking, modal shift, active transport, social inclusion and the broad health and wellbeing of all urban dwellers and daytime occupiers? The important role green spaces play across our cities is widely recognised and many places are ready to implement comprehensive green infrastructure strategies that promote densification while supporting mental and physical wellbeing. But where to

start, how much green space is needed and how should it be designed? These are difficult questions and answering them requires cross-sectoral expertise, reliable data and a lot of ambition. In early 2018, Vivid Economics, Barton Willmore and the European Centre for Environment & Human Health at the University of Exeter secured grant funding from Innovate UK to use new data sources and technologies to inform the development of a tool that can guide us through these pressing challenges. Since this point we have worked together to develop an online tool called Greenkeeper, which we will formally launch in January 2020. Maximising the benefits of urban green infrastructure requires good

information. Urban planners and designers, governing bodies and influencers alike want to understand what motivates the use of these spaces, how visitors interact with them and what aspects deliver the most value. Until now, this information has been difficult and expensive to collect. Location specific surveys provide a snapshot of information, but it is not easy to compare spaces or make a case for proposed investments. Using visit survey data from Natural England and data on accessibility, green space features and population characteristics, Greenkeeper estimates visits to individual green spaces and values the benefits they provide as well as how these can be enhanced. Greenkeeper builds on Vivid

Across the UK, we are increasingly seeing a drive for urban intensiﬁcation in our towns and cities as we seek to respond to the housing crisis. The important role green spaces play across our cities is widely recognised and many places are ready to implement comprehensive green infrastructure strategies

If you regularly go on a run, cycle to work or play a game of football, chances are these activities improve your life expectancy and quality of life. In fact, the beneﬁt is quantiﬁed at up to £2,100 a year... green spaces are vital for urban life and Greenkeeper helps to assess how much to invest in them and where to target these investments

Assessing interventions using the valuation of physical health beneﬁts green spaces provide Source: Vivid Economics

Economics’s work on valuing the ecosystem services provided by London’s green spaces. The London Capital Accounts study found that for each £1 spent by local authorities and their partners on public green space, Londoners enjoy at least £27 in value. It advances the techniques and accessibility of the analysis and extends it nationwide, without any need for users to input local data or have valuation expertise. Users simply select one or more greenspaces on a map, and Greenkeeper will report the values of benefits along with an intuitive guide on how to understand and use them, for example in developing a business case. The most striking results arise from the value to physical health and mental wellbeing. Green spaces keep urban residents healthy and happy. But how healthy and happy? Health benefits depend on how active we are in green spaces. If you regularly go on a run, cycle to work or play a game of football, chances are these activities improve your life expectancy and

quality of life. In fact, the benefit is quantified at up to £2,100 a year. People who are active but do not quite manage to get in 150 minutes a week still significantly benefit from exercise, their mortality risk reduction is valued at £520 per year. Understanding the health impacts and quantifying the value they have for individuals can help us to develop a business case for targeted interventions. The figure above shows an example for a park receiving 5,000 visitors a year. Across England, roughly 10% of visits are inactive, 60% of the active visits are made by people who go for the occasional run and 30% are made by people who regularly exercise. Already, the benefits provided to visitors add up to £4.8 million a year. It can be difficult to secure funding to improve green spaces without a strong business case, and valuing the potential benefits allows a more comprehensive value-for-money assessment. For example, if we want

to improve the benefits for currently non-active visitors, it is important to understand the value added by an intervention that encourages higher activity levels in this green space. Motivating just 40% of the 500 nonactive visitors to go on a brisk walk during their visit provides health benefits valued at £100,000 per year, and any intervention costing less than this provides a net benefit. We can now compare it to other interventions that deliver £100,000 of health benefits and assess which makes more sense in the local context. Green spaces are vital for urban life, but assessing how much to invest in them and how to target these investments can be difficult and expensive. Greenkeeper communicates the value of our green spaces, how this value can be enhanced and how we can prioritise budgets to provide opportunities for urban residents to enjoy and benefit from the outdoors for generations. n

Accelerating the deployment of public EV charging infrastructure

Geoﬀ Murphy, Lead Engineer on SP Energy Networks’ CHARGE Project, talks to Smarter Tomorrow about the delivery of a step-change in the roll-out of electric vehicle public charging infrastructure. For the ﬁrst time in the UK, CHARGE will bring together expertise from transport and electrical network planning As we prepare for the network of the future, SP Energy Networks is playing a significant role in the decarbonisation of transport, and is leading on innovative approaches that will support local authorities and beyond to better serve their communities. As a society, a low carbon future is now the common goal. Not only are the health benefits very clear, we’ll also see a sustainable future for businesses, vital infrastructure, and the economy as a whole, becoming real tangible advantages along the way. Amongst all of this, it’s crucial for local authorities to be equipped with the tools and resources to allow them to achieve their own carbon reduction targets, as we are then stronger together than the sum of our parts. At the forefront of these low carbon efforts is the electrification of heat and transport, particularly as the wider government drives net zero targets and encourage or incentivise the uptake of the alternative options that are now available. At SP Energy Networks, we are leading on innovative thinking and

developments that will support those sorts of shifts, particularly at the local authority level. Our globally innovative CHARGE project delves into the world of electric vehicles, which have been on the market for some time now and are becoming increasingly popular, but which still have perceived barriers to entry. One of the biggest concerns consumers have when considering switching to an EV is the availability of charging facilities. Will they be in the right places and readily available to ensure the journey in an EV is just as hassle free as it would be in the petrol or diesel alternative? Whilst it is expected the majority of EV charging will take place at home or in the work place, there will still be a need for on-street and public charge points. These may be required by those who do not have a driveway; those who live in flats, apartments or terraced houses. Charging facilities are likely to also be required at public destinations such as leisure and shopping centres, tourist attractions, or filling station forecourts. But how

will local authorities, and in particular their urban planning teams, know where to put them? For the first time in the UK the CHARGE project will bring together the expertise from transport and electrical network planning. Our project partner PTV will build a full transport model of the SP Manweb Licence Area that will be utilised to simulate the uptake and movement of EVs out to 2050. Through doing so it will highlight locations of high demand for public charging and the most appropriate type of charger based on the dwell time and travel distance of the EVs. This same data will identify where areas of network will be incapable of providing the increase in electricity demand and network investment or smart solutions are required to meet EV charging requirements. Since the project commenced, we have been working closely with local authorities such as Liverpool City Council, Cheshire West and Chester, and the Welsh Government. This engagement has been to identify their

Bringing energy and transport planning together to optimise public EV infrastructure is the aim of CHARGE

plans and aspirations for the roll-out of public charging infrastructure and to seek their participation in cutting edge trials within CHARGE. Through our project partner Smarter Grid Solutions (SGS), we are also undertaking a large scale trial and evaluation of a range of smart charging solutions. We believe these solutions play a crucial role in releasing additional network capacity for EVs without the immediate need for network reinforcement. The ability to control chargers enables them to mitigate network risks whilst minimising the disruption encountered by customers. All of our endeavours will culminate in the delivery of a ground-breaking self-service tool for the connection of public charging infrastructure. The ‘ConnectMore’ platform, delivered by EA Technology, will bring together the transport and network models to allow users to assess the likely utilisation of chargers at any given location, the available network capacity and an indicative cost for connection. Where the network capacity is constrained,

The platform will bring together transport and network models to allow users to assess the likely utilisation of chargers at any given location, the available network capacity and an indicative cost for connection

‘ConnectMore’ will present the user with a range of smart charging solutions and provide indicative costs and an overview of the level of constraint that the solution might introduce – all of which will be informed by the trials undertaken in CHARGE. We believe that ‘ConnectMore’ will become a vital tool for a wide range of users looking to invest in public charging infrastructure, not least of all local authorities. It will enable them to quickly assess the options for connection and select the most appropriate locations based on the cost of connection and likely utilisation. CHARGE will inevitably become a key enabler for local authorities, community groups, workplaces and retail and leisure businesses planning their EV infrastructure needs. Through achievements like those the CHARGE project will reach, we can deliver a better future, quicker for our customers and provide local authorities with the means to successfully support the communities they serve. n

A digital overhaul for the planning system

The Connected Places Catapult’s Future of Planning Programme has been working with Government, industry and academia to research, design and prototype a more data-informed and digitally delivered planning system. By Stefan Webb, Director of Digitising Planning, Connected Places Catapult

The land use planning system – how cities allocate land for development, develop policies for the kind of development cities want and assess applications for development against those policies and allocations – is broken. Or at least that is what many people think. In the media and in political debate, the planning system is often the first to be fingered as the source of problems ranging from poor urban design, citizens opposing new development and lack of affordable housing. Yet the planning system is central to shaping the places we live, the amount of green space we have access to, the types of jobs that are available, the affordability of housing, the accessibility and capacity of new schools, and much, much more. What the planning system really needs is a digital overhaul to help set it up for a future where the re-use of data, agile development of spatial plans, seamless user experience for submitting applications and high quality informative engagement is the norm. The roots of the system’s opacity are varied. Planning jargon certainly creates barriers which make it difficult for outsiders to understand the process. This is then exacerbated by the fact that gatekeepers of knowledge – developers, consultants, planners, infrastructure agencies, and politicians amongst them – still exchange critical information in this ‘language’, thereby maintaining its exclusivity. The processes in place within planning authorities to gather information about sites, compare proposals from developers, and engage with citizens are certainly

Data fusion systems such as those used by CityMapper—a smartphone app that combines freely available public transport data—provide a single window on to an incredibly complex and disjointed pool of public information

rigorous, and produce huge quantitates of data at no small expense. If you’re sufficiently determined, you can find it in the appendices of local plans—and those brave enough to bother will discover reams of data, pages of tables, and an atlas-worth of maps. But as well as finding it difficult to understand, they’ll also see that it’s locked up inside PDFs that are impossible to search or analyse. This lack of transparency and asymmetry of information is central to the poor functioning of the housing and development market. It means that the barriers to entry are huge even for the largest foreign developers. Skanska and Bouygues, for instance, have taken over a decade

to enter the UK housing market. What hope, then, is there for challengers and disruptors who would encourage competition and boost standards? Without action, this status quo will continue. Planners, planning, and development, in general, will continue to be made scapegoats for what is an essential function of society. The public is right to complain: places have a democratic duty to their citizens to enhance their knowledge of how planning works and their involvement in how their cities will look and function in the future. What cities don’t seem to realise is that increased transparency would positively impact on citizens’ acceptance of new development.

The Connected Places Catapult, working in partnership with the Department for Communities and Local Government, created one vision of the future through a conceptual piece of software. The Land Information Platform shows how it’s possible to have a single access point to all the key data and analysis about land, economic, social and environmental systems in a city

Resisting development is the natural reflex if you don’t know or understand what it is, how it came about, or its likely impact, especially if you feel excluded from it. Digital tools and data visualisation already have a long history of translating complex or opaque ideas and enhancing their legibility and accessibility. Gov.UK is an excellent example of how clarity of language and clear design can improve citizen engagement with complex government services. Data fusion systems such as those used by CityMapper—a smartphone app that combines freely available public transport data—provide a single window on to an incredibly complex and disjointed pool of public information. And the Metropolitan Police Service’s crime mapping allows citizens to straightforwardly probe data that was once locked away in analogue records. For cities to achieve similar success with planning data, planners will have to work with user experience experts, service designers, data visualizers and software designers to understand the appropriate level of detail and design for different users of the planning system. Fortunately, there are already startups which are beginning to show how that can work. Cardiff-based Urban Intelligence, for instance, is building a single database and search engine of UK planning policy, enabling planners, developers and citizens with the ability to quickly access the planning policy they want to review. And Land Insight is

What cities don’t seem to realise is that increased transparency would positively impact on citizens’ acceptance of new development. Resisting development is the natural reﬂex if you don’t know or understand what it is, how it came about, or its likely impact – if you feel excluded from it streamlining the process by which developers search for land by providing planning history, ownership information and sales information in an easy-to-access format.

At Connected Places Catapult we are working with government, industry and academia to research, design and prototype a more datainformed and digitally-delivered planning system and the products and services that will sit on it. We have worked with the Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government for a conceptual prototype for plan-making; with Gateshead Council on a tool that helps small developers; and with architects KPF on a new approach to Masterplanning. Critics may argue that opening up the planning system to allow greater insight and access to more users will de-professionalise the planning profession. But, in truth, software and artificial intelligence will soon take over many of the lower-value activities in planning and surveying – such as data collection and collation – anyway. Now is the moment at which planners can actively focus on the higher value, creative components of planning and place-making before technology forces them to. Only unscrupulous developers, politicians and planners have anything to fear from increasing transparency in the planning sector. Everyone else will be able to enjoy a development ecosystem where standards rise because of increased competition and the public understands – and more readily accepts and engages with – development, because they’re aware of how it works. That is a future that we should be working hard to build together. n

Future mobility impacts

Future mobility options could play a signiﬁcant role in tackling transport’s carbon, health and social challenges, says Giles Perkins, Head of Future Mobility, WSP UK, in conversation with Juliana O’Rourke. The key is thinking about future mobility holistically Digital connectivity is the ‘golden thread’ in the future mobility agenda, enabling new business models and new forms of accessing and using services. But one of the key things missing in the transport narrative to date is how we embed transport in everything that we do. ‘Each part of the existing and future mobility mix needs to be customer-centric, to be tailored to individual needs. The sweet spot for change lies in removing frictions and mapping possible change to customer needs across the transport ecosystem,’ says Perkins. ‘It’s about improving customer expectations, reducing friction in the system and tackling stress. A key aim is delivering improved outcomes for users, service operators and, importantly, asset owners. A second, closely linked to this, is the need to ensure that technology is only

introduced where it solves a real problem or contributes to a better end-solution, not for its own sake.’ One major improved outcome for all is decarbonisation. Climate change is currently one of our most pressing concerns and future mobility options could play a significant role in tackling transport’s carbon, health and social challenges, says Perkins. In the UK, transport is the single biggest polluter. ‘A future mobility agenda underpinned by digital connectivity and rich data enables us to take a much more mature, almost retail-led approach to how we balance supply and demand.’ Rather than owning transport, we will shift to considering how we access mobility. Shared, ondemand services will be a better choice for many than owning a second car and, in the future, perhaps than owning a car at all.

‘The point is that we need to manage how we use and take care of these assets. If we reach a situation where there is capacity in the transport system – more people using fewer vehicles – we can return public assets such as streets and squares to public uses. We can increase the width of pavements and sidewalks, have more green spaces, and allocate parking spaces more logically. Importantly, this puts the focus of our places on people, not vehicles.’ But the key challenge is not about whether vehicles are electric or automated, it’s about choice and behaviour, says Perkins. ‘It’s about the links between mobility and society; about when, where and why we move. If we get this right – and that’s a big if – a decarbonised, shared mobility future could move us to a place where we can access clean

The key challenge is about choice and behaviour. It's about the links between mobility and society; about when, where and why we move

transport options and unlock opportunities, providing social mobility in urban, peri-urban and rural areas. Those who engage early and with a clear plan will benefit most.’ There is really interesting data coming out about behavioural responses to transport disruption, and there is a clear danger that we treat all modes and transport users as if they’re the same. ‘I’m really interested in how the disruptors are targeting different segments of society,’ says Perkins. Some are getting quite plugged into understanding choice, and this is where future mobility gets really interesting. Where it gets harder is in thinking about serving rural places where it’s harder to make business cases add up. We need new business models to tackle rural exclusion, ones that tackle an aging population. I think that there are real opportunities for future mobility to thrive in a shared, electrified and ultimately, autonomous, future. Better accessibility options, using digitally-enabled, dynamic service models such as those starting to evolving in on-demand bus services, for example, are showing that there is a different way forward.’ We don’t want to hollow out existing mass transport networks with future mobility solutions, he adds, but we do need to look at different models than linear bus routes, operating at set frequencies. ‘The way we consume “stuff” is changing: we watch TV on demand,

we buy on-line and want everything instantly. The future looks set to be a mix of dynamic and linear services, for many, using integrated access, booking, ticketing and payment platforms. That could make life an awful lot easier for all of us.’ Those of us that grew up with cardboard and paper tickets may feel more uncertain about change, says Perkins. ‘But it’s clear to see that taking cash is in decline. Accountbased ticketing systems have the power to drive real change. At the moment, the situation is evolving, and it’s messy and patchy across the country. We’re not yet at the stage of implementing workable standards and we haven’t really shaken down what a good customer service looks like.’ But we have major trials going on, future mobility zones being formulated, and we’re putting significant amounts of money into gathering the evidence we need, he adds. ‘Some local authorities are really on top of this agenda; really at the cutting edge and are investing a great deal of time and effort. One real challenge is that many authorities are constrained with funding and the day-to-day challenges of maintaining assets, reducing congestion, improving customer service and fixing potholes. Much of the work that I’m doing today, which is at the heart of our programme, is around externalising innovation in real time, and sharing learning so that others get the benefits as we evolve.’ To help with this, WSP has created

a structured approach based around four distinct trends: n Increasing public interest in, and a shift towards, electric vehicles n Distinct from this, the evolution towards connected vehicles, transport systems and networks n Progress towards vehicle automation (including driverless vehicles) n Increasing appetite for shared use (for example, via ‘mobility as a service’ models) The publication of the Department for Transport’s Future of Mobility: Urban Strategy is pivotal, says Perkins, as for the first time, the UK has a set of strategic guiding principles to help steer us on the complex path from today’s transport system towards the future. These are sound, clear and broad, and range from safeguarding walking, cycling and mass transit, to conscious consideration of inclusivity and data ownership. And they firmly steer the country towards safe, lower carbon solutions. There is also recognition of the need for a step-change in collaboration between the private and public sectors if we are to reach genuinely good, productive and sustainable mobility outcomes for people, places and business. The economic elements here are critical. There are new revenue streams on offer, but how the industry crafts the precise mechanisms to create selfsustaining business models will determine their public acceptance, onward funding and longevity. n

Urban land community: we need to shape technology development for making better places

The Urban Land Institute (ULI) Tech Forum brings city, real estate, technology and innovation professionals together to share knowledge, best practice and creative thinking to enable truly innovative solutions to be applied to our urban environment, says Lauren Poon, Head of Digital, EMEA, CallisonRTK, and the Forum’s Vice-Chair Urban Technology Framework are Digital Twins, tribalisation, share & share alike, smart cities, builders assemble, smart buildings, digital retail, future of work, digital manufacturing, what a wonderful day, mobility as a service and smart machines.

Digital is becoming a key factor in the success of cities and the quality of life of the people who live and work in them, alongside ‘traditional’ factors such as geography, climate, transport and utilities infrastructure, health services and skills. Credit: Squint /Opera

The Urban Land Institute’s recent Urban Technology Framework has identified 12 trends that will shape metropolitan hubs. This framework will help developers and architects who are responsible for delivering future cities. The 12 trends in the

‘Technology on its own is not the disrupter, people are,’ says Lauren Poon, Head of Digital, EMEA, CallisonRTK, and the Forum’s Vice-Chair. ‘We, in the urban land community and beyond, need new ways of thinking and working to capture the opportunities and benefits offered by new digital technologies. The ULI UK Technology Framework offers 12 megatrends that cut across traditional urban land sector silos. These purposeful topics offer a place to have a conversation about how to create resilient, responsive, and sustainable cities for happier people.’ The digital debate is no longer focusing just on technological advancement but is also considering the economic opportunities and future social impacts of digital change. The urban land community will be expected to take a leading position in the process of designing the role of digital in the future city. Digital technologies are having no less impact on cities, but not as a single ‘meteor strike’. Instead, digital innovation is playing out as a cumulative series of changes, each caused by different combinations of factors. The complexity of the context – of the city as an organism – helps explain the sheer variety of individual

digital technology-driven changes. In this context, the ULI UK Tech Forum has developed a framework for considering urban technology. It identifies key trends in the use of digital technologies in cities, and the factors that interact to cause and shape these trends.

The framework has three objectives:

n To provide a current, accessible ‘primer’ for urban technology that supports a deeper understanding in how our urban environment can be enhanced by technology n To establish a ‘modular’ framework for urban technology that allows for future, more detailed research n To encourage connection, dialogue and translation between all people involved n Digitalisation will transform business models, causing the existing sharing economy to extend even further: with people sharing houses, cars and clothes. The framework sets out the trends into three themes – digital technologies (see above), urban land factors and business models – that will further transform our cities. These must be considered in every plan for the future, and how they will

affect communities, institutions, buildings and the public realm. Digital technologies will transform the way we interact with and in cities. Current technologies have enabled our communities to no longer be limited to locality, as small and fluid tribes are increasingly defined by digital and physical worlds. Further technologies, from increased connectivity through IoT to smart machines and driverless cars, will likely have as significant an impact. Urban land factors create the context that digital technologies need to work in. These factors can be people, organisations, scale of development and stage of design. Property developers and architects have the opportunity to integrate technologies in design to respond to changes in the way people work or travel. Finally, digital organising and business models will use technologies to deliver services in urban centres. Cities of the future will enjoy digital retail, a focus on customer experience, and an expansion of the sharing-economy. Property developers and architects will have to consider the trends in transformational change facing cities and people’s living experience. The Urban Technology Framework can act as a guide in this urban transformation process. The Urban Technology Framework is an initiative of the ULI UK Tech Forum, co-chaired by Adam Burstow, a Group Digital & IT Director at Grosvenor Group and Ed Parham, an Associate at Space Syntax. Says Parham: ‘The current wave of urban technologies have the potential to create change across the urban context, bringing both new challenges and opportunities to deliver wider social benefit. To take advantage of these opportunities, the urban land community needs to develop strategies that shape technology development, adoption and working practices. ‘Our Urban Technology Framework aims to inform these discussions and support the sustainable cities of the future.’ Co-Chair Adam Burstow, adds: ‘The ULI UK Urban Technology Framework illustrates how technology intersects with our urban areas and aims to provide a platform to understand how we shape our cities. n

Dundee: scaling up mobility innovations The Mobility Innovation Living Lab (The MILL) is an innovation partnership transforming Dundee into a real-world test bed for new transport technologies and services. Through a globally signiﬁcant £2.5 million programme of innovation pilots, we are demonstrating how smart transport technologies, business models and data can improve wellbeing, says Anna Day, Partnerships Manager, Urban Foresight The MILL was established by Dundee City Council with the Scottish Cities Alliance and is managed by Urban Foresight. The MILL is part funded as part of the Scottish Government European Structural Investment Fund programme 2014-2020 through the ‘Scotland’s 8th City – the Smart City project’. There are three main pillars at the centre of all our projects: people, the environment and scalability. People are the heart of what we do; our core aim is to make Dundee a better place to live and work by improving transport choices. The environmental thread runs through everything we do; air quality and combatting climate change are essential parts of each project. Our projects are not just pilots: they’re innovations and smart uses of data. We want to use Dundee to show that these new mobility innovations can be scaled up to cities round the UK and across the globe. The first wave of projects to be run through The MILL were commissioned in Summer 2018 and are delivering solutions related to car sharing, fleets, smart parking and active travel. The next phase will be to

navigogo, Scotland's ﬁrst Mobility as a Service (MaaS) application, was piloted in a project led by ESP Group and introduced a personalised journey planner, fare calculator & payment system to Dundee in 2017

combine these services into a single mobility as a service (MaaS) platform. Dundee City Council is currently in the process of bringing on board a development partner to support this. The companies who are part of the first phase of MILL projects are all signed up to be part of the MaaS platform, which will help residents and visitors to the city move around more easily. Urban Foresight manages all aspects of the programme. This includes providing expert support to large and small businesses, including help to access funding, infrastructure and end-users to co-create solutions. Urban Foresight also has a role in

facilitating collaborations amongst suppliers, helping to scale-up solutions to other Scottish cities and creating opportunities to promote innovations to global markets. Dundee is at the forefront of the Electric Vehicle (EV) revolution and that led Dundee City Council to want to support more innovations in the city. Dundee has the biggest EV taxi fleet in the UK (134 taxis and counting), was voted the most visionary EV city in Europe last year and boasts three specially built EV charging hubs. These hubs have 78 chargers which are heavily used and are leading the thinking in the UK about how EV charging stations will exist the UK in the future. InnovateUK are funding a project to help address the challenge around the 50% of people who cannot charge their EV on a driveway at home, without cluttering the street. This includes a trial of innovative pop up chargers for residential charging of electric vehicles. These exciting pieces of infrastructure allow the street to remain clear for pedestrians during the day, while EVs can charge overnight. n

Dundee is showing that new mobility innovations can be scaled up to cities round the UK and across the globe

PHOTO: HANS MUSIL, CC

The ﬁrst wave of projects to be run through The MILL – car-sharing, ﬂeets, smart parking and active travel – will be combined into a single mobility as a service (MaaS) platform in the next phase Our other MILL projects include: Smart Parking Sensors:

Over 1,000 bluetooth sensors will be installed as part of Scotland’s largest smart parking project. It will include both on-street residential and city centre parking, with the aim of reducing congestion, improving enforcement and allow people to pay based on the duration of their stay. The service will be provided by Atkins and AppyParking, with users able to see real-time availability of spaces, with navigation and single click payments for a parking session using a mobile app.

Car Club Drop Oﬀ Zones:

Co-Wheels will trial software and hardware solutions that would facilitate the development of Scotland’s first free floating car club. In a pilot with Dundee City Council, geofenced pickup and drop-off zones will be introduced which mean that car club users no longer have to rigidly stick to returning vehicles to a designated bay. The development of one-way car clubs, as opposed to the existing round-trip rental model, could ultimately increase the convenience, flexibility and affordability of car clubs as a viable alternative to private car use.

Community Minibuses:

Dundee City Council is working with Co-Wheels Car Club to optimise the use of its community minibuses. Some minibuses currently have a relatively low rate of utilisation and are expensive to operate. A new booking platform and in-vehicle telematics will allow community groups across the city to access the minibuses, delivering a new shared mobility service and reducing the cost to the public sector of operating these vehicles.

Fleet Sharing: We are working with Enterprise Car Club to develop a new model that will enable sharing of vehicles with other fleets. Existing pool car vehicles and regular day hire services will be replaced with a new low carbon car club fleet, saving the Council time, money and CO2 in managing these operations. A new booking system and in-vehicle telematics will make it easier for council staff to access the vehicles. This technology will also facilitate the sharing of vehicles with Police Scotland and other organisations across the city.

Electric Bike Sharing:

Scotland’s ﬁrst large-scale electric

bike sharing scheme will be launched

in Dundee this summer. An initial 350

electric bikes will be deployed across the city, with more bikes planned as

demand grows. The service will be

delivered by Ride-On, which operates similar schemes in Madrid and

Miami. Users of the scheme will

beneﬁt from Ride-On’s proprietary

integrated software that connects its

e-bikes with its website, smartphone

app and recharging stations.

A smart, eﬃcient parking solution comes to Dundee:

Already launched in the city is a new app-based service from JustPark. The new cashless payment system, which launched on April 1st, is cheaper and will gradually introduce innovations such as predictive availability of parking spaces and real time discovery of spaces. Five more trials will be developed over the next year, including a scheme which encourages drivers to park in diﬀerent areas through incentives from local shops, pre-booking and dynamic and emission-based pricing.

Winning hearts and minds: how smart approaches are delivering citizen-focused services

Smart Cities and the Internet of Things (IoT) have transformed the way we manage, think about and interact with our urban environments, from transport to deliveries. Dr Joanne Phoenix, Executive Director at technical innovation hub Sensor City, shows how The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is using rich data from connected applications and devices to provide, monitor and prioritise individual needs There’s no escaping the fact that when it comes to the delivery of health and social care, we’re facing a growing global problem. We live in an age where the financial and human resources needed to deliver healthcare safely and effectively are stretched to the limit. In fact, looking at healthcare spending globally, Deloitte predicts it will grow by 4.2 per cent per year, from $7.1 trillion in 2015 to $8.7 trillion by 2020. This prediction highlights how the cost of healthcare will become prohibitive to most unless new approaches are adopted. One of the biggest contributors to the challenges facing healthcare is the ageing population, a group which is putting unprecedented pressure on resources. Worldwide, it is expected that there will be two billion people above the age of 60 by 2050, of which 21% will be over 80 years of age. In the EU presently, 18% of the population is over the age of 65 and this will increase to one in four by 2025. Closer to home, we know that the NHS currently spends around 40% of its total budget on those who are over 65. As our aging population continues its upward trend in the coming years, it’s imperative that healthcare providers act now and start to look at new approaches to delivering vital services to patients. In fact, this may require a whole shift of approach towards a system based on preventative measures and education when it comes to patient care, rather than one which is heavily burdened by providing immediate cures and treatments.

However, in our age of connected devices, healthcare trusts have technology available to them to help them rise to the growing challenges. When it comes to putting prevention at the heart of healthcare, technological approaches will become increasingly important for delivering patient care that is cost-effective, less labour intensive, and most importantly, meeting individual patient needs.

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)

Smart Cities and the Internet of Things (IoT) have transformed the way we manage, think about and interact with our urban environments. Applying this same logic and approach to our healthcare services is vital if we’re to continue offering a sustainable service. The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is set to play a huge role in making this a reality, given current and future challenges. In fact, the evolution of such technology for medical purposes couldn’t have come at a better time. It’s estimated that there are already 3.7 million connected medical devices and systems in play today, with predictions telling us that the IoMT market will reach $137 billion worldwide by 2021. This certainly gives an indication of how much healthcare services will become reliant on technology. What’s more, it shows that there will be an increasing need to get technological innovations aimed at the healthcare sector to the market as quickly as possible.

As outlined in the recent Ericsson From Healthcare to Homecare report, the IoMT will play a key role in decentralising hospital-based care; support the centralisation of patient data and enable patients to be reliably and continuously monitored via wearable technology – giving them greater access to remote care.

Technology to support prevention before cure

If we take wearable technologies alone, there is a huge opportunity for health care providers to reduce costs and promote the ‘prevention over cure’ agenda. What’s more, the flexibility and improvement in care that can be provided to patients will be substantial. Early detection of patient deterioration and avoidable deaths will be an overarching benefit of the IoMT and those wearable technologies it integrates with. When it comes to cost saving factors, it’s been predicted that if only 5% of high-risk patients are continuously and autonomously monitored via wearable technology, a saving of €4.3 million could result per 30,000 admissions in Europe. We know that across the EU there are approximately 180 million hospital admissions every year. Based on the cost saving of wearable technology within an IoMT ecosystem, this could result in a saving of approximately €26 billion. Illustrating the vast opportunity presented by the IoMT and wearable devices in the UK, it was reported in April 2017 that 4 in 10 patients being

admitted to accident and emergency units were not being reviewed quickly enough. In addition, in the previous year there were 15,722 deaths in hospital or within 30 days of discharge. A prime factor in these deaths was attributed to staff shortages and inadequate monitoring. Given the technology now available, these deaths could have been avoided. Luckily, wearable technology approaches to healthcare are now being explored and invested in. For instance, the EU H2020-funded Nightingale programme is challenging industry to improve patient safety by developing systems that can accurately identify patients at risk of deterioration and thus deliver all the associated benefits that such an ability would bring. This programme has demonstrated just how the IoMT sector can really level the innovation playing field, with UK-based start-up Sentinel Biosensors Ltd competing against large corporates with its trial of a wearable device that will monitor patients every 120 seconds and which uses AI approaches to compare vital signs and advise care providers on prognosis and management. Infrastructure developments in the sphere of 5G connectivity will also play a huge role in making the IoMT more accessible and more reliable for healthcare providers and their patients. For instance, it will bring greater scope for remote patient monitoring, and give patients the flexibility to perform vital tests and measurements from their own home – saving valuable staff and financial resources within hospitals. In

addition, it will also bring greater patient comfort and satisfaction given that they won’t have to be on hospital premises to receive care – a real benefit for patients with challenges relating to mobility. What’s more, with the evolution of the IoMT, hospitals and healthcare facilities will come to act as huge repositories of data. With this rich data from connected applications and devices, healthcare professionals will be able to provide an even greater level of objective reporting when it comes to patient diagnostics. Using the right technology, healthcare professionals will have the data they need to make better informed decisions using objective reporting together with more subjective patient feedback. This will not only speed up the diagnosis of patients, it will also help healthcare professionals play a more strategic role when it comes to the administration of treatments and services.

Are there challenges to technological adoption?

Although the IoMT has the ability to transform healthcare, it does face some challenges too. Like many industries, the healthcare sector is subject to very stringent regulation. As a result, the adoption of IoMT will not come in the form of an immediate switch over, but more of the continued evolution we’re already starting to see. Data handling and security is also creating challenges for healthcare authorities in the UK. This is perhaps

more poignant for the sector given the £92 million the NHS lost as a result of the WannaCry hack in 2017. Like Smart Cities, healthcare facilities will need to have the right digital infrastructure in place to unlock the true potential of smart medical devices in the coming years. They must also ensure they have the right data storage and security technology in place to prevent sensitive patient data from being stolen. Finally, the current older generations in our society are not technology savvy on the whole, and the digital world can be very daunting for them. Time will obviously change this situation, but the budget constraints are real now. As a result, healthcare providers need to be mindful that any technological path they take is accessible for all – particularly the elderly, who, as we have seen, are the predominant users of healthcare services. The IoMT – along with the devices, sensors and applications it integrates with – has the power to change how healthcare is provided, monitored and prioritised. Although prevention has always been the mantra of many healthcare services around the world, it’s only now that they’ve had the technology and tools to take effective action. Although the road to fully integrated IoMT will be one of slower transition, the long-term benefits could, in time improve, the lives of each and every one of us. n Ann Williams, lead, 5G Health and Social Care, Liverpool City Council, will be speaking at Smarter Tomorrow

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