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Travelling sustainably towards equality, diversity and inclusion
As part of our UK City of Culture travel assistant deployment for Coventry, ‘You. Smart. Thing.’ is proud to be supporting the Little Amal, a young refugee, who has embarked on a remarkable journey!
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A goodwill gesture to the UK’s littered coastlines
Throughout August, Warwickshire-based artist Rob Hamp is travelling to some of the UK’s busiest coastal locations to collect litter and sand to inform a new architectural artwork. The Art Can Be Rubbish Too project aims to encourage recycling, civic pride, and asks us to look again at our own relationship to waste. The work will be launched at Coventry Biennial 2021 this October and is a co-commission between Coventry Biennial and UK City of Culture 2021 / Green Futures.
Disabled people do not exist in silos
A consortium developing a new data-sharing framework to communicate disabled people’s travel requirements between supply-chain operators has secured funding from the UK’s Connected Places Catapult.
Read MoreRugby League World Cup 2021 travel assistant
Rugby League World Cup 2021 (RLWC2021) has teamed up with ‘You. Smart. Thing.’ (YST) to help supporters get the best routes, dedicated transport services and personalised travel updates when traveling to the 61 matches being held at 21 venues across England.
Read More‘EV Assist’ is a leading edge collaboration between Transport for West Midlands and developers of the multi award winning Travel Assistant platform, ‘You. Smart. Thing.’ (YST). It aims to incentivise the use of electric vehicles (EVs), accelerating the UK’s journey towards achieving a carbon neutral economy.
Read MoreThe UK City of Culture ‘Travel Assistant’
The Coventry City of Culture Trust has teamed up with ‘You. Smart. Thing.’ (YST) to help visitors get the best routes, personalised travel updates, and exclusive digital content when traveling to UK City of Culture 2021 venues and events using its internet-based Travel Assistant service.
Read MoreCapacity Management During the Pandemic & Beyond
As the second wave of COVID-19 took hold in 2020, in response to shifting COVID-19 social distancing measures and recommendations, Transport for Wales (TfW) identified the need for a ‘boarding pass’ style solution to increase customer confidence and enable people to Travel Safer by maintaining social distancing on their rail services. Cost and speed of deployment (within 2 months) were both critical and the solution needed to work parallel with incumbent ticket issuing systems as part of TfW’s critical technology infrastructure.
Read MoreHelping hosts guide people ‘the smart way’
‘You. Smart. Thing.’ has teamed up with community interest company EnV to help its volunteer ‘City Hosts’ share the best routes for travel to UK City of Culture 2021 venues and events, using its internet-based Travel Assistant service: https://travel.yousmartthing.com/coventry
Read MoreNew funding to improve charge point accessibility.
The Scottish Government has awarded £210,000 to test new ways of improving accessibility across ChargePlace Scotland’s electric vehicle charging network.
Read MoreMarket leading destination and travel management platform , ‘You, Smart. Thing.’ (YST), is seeking an experienced business development manager to focus on new deployments of its web-based ‘Travel Assistant’ service for UK destinations, venues and events.
Read MoreA new Coventry Business Improvement District initiative in partnership with ‘You. Smart. Thing.’, to help boost recovery of the regional economy by promoting ‘Covid-conscious’ travel.
Read MoreA new initiative from West Midlands Metro , Greater Birmingham & Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (GBSLEP) and ‘You. Smart. Thing.’, to help boost recovery of the regional economy by promoting smarter travel.
Read MoreMidlands-based travel management platform ‘You. Smart. Thing.’ has secured a development capital boost of £1.1m, including funding from Maven Capital Partners, to invest in sales, marketing and recruitment to create 29 new jobs by 2024.
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You. Smart. Thing., Somerset House, Birmingham UK
On behalf of Headspace Group, Edward Smith for Highbury Communications interviewed Chris Thompson about YSTs decision to champion the workplace over working from home full time.
Read MoreExciting opportunity for top business development professionals
Read MoreA consortium of technology and creative companies has come together to develop Urban Tourism 5.0 – a new platform that will incentivise people to plan their trip ahead of attending venues and events.
Read MoreVisiting the UK City of Culture 2021
As UK City of Culture 2021, Coventry is gearing up for a stunning programme of events.
Read More‘In-situ’ and ‘En-route’ Travel Advice for Audiences
YST is currently helping to restart the cultural sector by working with destinations and events to deploy our UK government backed ‘Travel Assistant’.
Read MoreWebinar – 12:00-12:40, Thursday 16th July 2020
YST is hosting an exclusive free webinar looking at the future of travel and events in the UK.
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