The 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 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.
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 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.
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‘Access for all’ as a fundamental requirement
Last night we picked up the ITS (UK) ‘innovation award for Inclusive Mobility’, yet access to transport networks, and to many destinations, the workplace, venues and events, still remains dire.
Read MoreWMG ACES dinner hosts transport industry leaders
The Future of Transport will be Autonomous, Connected, Electric and Shared (ACES). There is a global call to radically transform the way we travel – both to reduce emissions and also to ease congestion and increase the ease, safety and speed at which passengers are able to get from point A to B.
Read MoreTackling isolation and loneliness through transport-led interventions
The costs, causes and impact of isolation and loneliness are many and varied.
Watch this video and visit https://yousmartthing.com/freedom to tell us your opinion on where you think the You. Smart. Thing. Travel Assistant should be integrated, in order to have the greatest impact on rural isolation and loneliness.
Read MoreTOC Ability is a new digital platform providing a blueprint for removing barriers to travel for disabled passengers. The £1.4 million TOC Ability research and development project has today released its final report, which shows how digital technology can be harnessed to enhance the accessibility and inclusivity of rail services for disabled customers.
Read MoreInteractive Locations and Intelligent Digital Signage (iLIDS)
The Department for Transport has awarded UK technology company, Enable International, together with The Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB), Arriva UK Trains and research partners the University of Surrey, funding through its £9m Innovate UK ‘Accelerating Innovation in Rail’ programme. The money will be used to research, develop and test new technology to improve information, safety and accessibility on railway station platforms.
Read More‘Smart-train’ Passenger Counting & Real-time Information System Successfully Piloted by Chiltern Railways
“It’s been fantastic to be able to engage train staff and passengers in testing a system that reconciles real-time information from individual carriages with timetabled train services.”
Chris Thompson, Chief Strategy Officer, Enable iD
Read MoreTOC Ability – January 2018 development update
TOC Ability is a seven-partner consortium who are developing a digital platform to improve the rail travel experience for customers with accessibility needs in the UK. Co-funded by the Rail Safety Standards Board (RSSB) TOC’16 Innovation Programme, the project aims to improve travelling by train for disabled people.
Read MoreNew partnership will deliver ‘advertising-as-a-service’ to rail commuters
Proxama PLC, the leading mobile proximity marketing experts, today announced that as part of a wider customer information trial, its beacons have been installed on a number of Chiltern Railways’ Birmingham to London mainline trains.
Read MoreTechnology enabled trains to transform commuter travel experience between Birmingham and London – the innovation hopes to make traveller frustration a thing of the past by directing passengers to available seats.
Read MoreA unique transport network big data collaboration is set to ease congestion and help put the UK economy on the right track.
Brits will be amongst the first in the world to get chance to try out the latest Internet and personal information management technology, tailored to their travel needs.
Read MoreLeading train company operators granted innovation funding:
Three leading train operating companies, Arriva UK Trains, Govia Thameslink Railway and First Great Western, have been awarded access to a £6m collaborative innovation fund as a result of entering RSSB’s Train Operator Competition 2015 (TOC’15).
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