Presentation to audience at Department for Transport in January 2017 sharing the purpose, outcomes and next steps from the Birmingham Highways Data Challenge, or #brumdatahack. We're helping local SME's and universities access the right data and information to innovate and help solve the congestion, routing and co-ordination challenges facing the West Midlands in coming years with construction of HS2, extension of Midland Metro Alliance, Highways England works on Motorways and Trunk Roads, local authority highway improvements and utilities/services works.

1. #brumdatahack
Recap, Results, Resolutions
Teresa Jolley, Creative
Director, DEFT153 Ltd

2. Plan
- Introductions – who/role/interest
- Recap
- Results
- What the teams created
- Resolutions – what’s next
- Q+A / discussion

3. Recap...

4. Three organisations need help
with their data challenges...

5. • Have live traffic flow and journey time data across
Birmingham City council at 5 minute intervals, based
on Urban Traffic Management and Control (UTMC)
data, live car parking data and automatic detection
of traffic incidents.
• Want to publish openly, and build on work already
done on open standards through European funded
projects (Opticities, Open Transport Net).
• Need to understand priorities for use and application
of this data, to plan evolution of open source
platform, and prioritise what data is published.

6. • Have access to public transport information, working
in partnership with the public transport operators.
• Want to understand impacts on the road network
during incidents, scheduled maintenance and HS2
construction work. Use this to help encourage modal
shift.
• Need to bring together datasets to estimate journey
time impacts to develop targeted communication to
the network users.

7. • Have detailed plans of vehicle movements during
the construction phase of HS2.
• Want to understand what other public or private
projects may impact the road network that HS2 must
take account of, for example – tram extension,
motorway upgrades.
• Need to find out what data sets are useful to share
to reach HS2’s goals and how the results can be
presented visually.

8. ...they asked local SME’s,
innovation funders and open
data experts to assist...

9. We asked organisations to donate
their datasets and expertise...
http://deft153.com/birmingham-highways-data-challenge-2016/datasets/

10. ...designed a two-day event with
local and national support...

11. ...and brought together skills and
interest to prototype solutions

12. Results...

13. Organisations learn and evolve

14. Ian Owen
Transport and Technology
Lead and BIM champion
Mott MacDonald
We discover passionate people
with skills already in the sector

15. Tom Forth’s Bus
Tracker
“In the future I'd like to run this
service all day and night and in
every major city of the UK.
Buses are a big part of making
our cities more pleasant and
more productive places to live
and work. We need to
understand why people don't
use them and change them so
that they will.”
http://www.tomforth.co.uk/bustracker/
SME’s improve their services

16. Build on work already done
http://www.opentransportnet.eu/web/birmingham/traffic-flow

17. 5 prototype solutions
1. Birmingham City Open Data Under
Threat
2. HS2 HGV Traffic Heat Map
3. Brake-Thru
4. A Breath of Fresh Air
5. Birmingham Bus Tracker
http://deft153.com/birmingham-highways-data-challenge-2016/hack-teams/

18. Do better next time
• Engage with more universities and SME’s
whose work / skills are complementary to the
challenges faced
• Provide much greater support to access,
understand and use the available datasets.
• Attract more people with coding/design/data
skills from within the highways and transport
sector.

19. Resolutions...

20. • Take the data into universities, with a masterclass approach to
help students connect with real life challenges, and identify skillsets
(e.g. developers) to work with industry on future collaborations.
• Create a regional hub for West Midlands data and open,
collaborative working, where individuals and organisations
(universities, SME’s, corporates, professional institutions) can learn
skills in data visualisation, coding and analysis and collaborate to
solve the region’s key transport challenges.
• Prototype the basis for a national (UK wide) ongoing
sustainable model for the exchange of highways data
(HighwaysAPI), and establish foundations for its shared public /
private / community not-for-profit management and direction.

21. Existing associations around
transport data / Intelligent
Mobility at Innovation
Birmingham Ltd

23. Partners:
Projects:
•Birmingham in
Real Time (BiRT)
• Big Data Corridor
SME’s:
Innovation Engine
SME
SME
SME
SME’s
Transport Incubator,
iCentrum
Challenges
Funders:
• Engage
SME’s
• Evidence
collaboration
• Innovate
Transport
organisations
• Support
economic
growth
• Encourage
Innovation
Funding
bodies
wanting to:
+
-Events
-Training
-Networking
-Collaboration
-Media support
-Workshops
SME’s, challenges,
datahub, national
networks
Facilitation of national, open, collaborative UK-
wide standards for highways data
(HighwaysAPI)
Regional prototype in West Midlands
Venue, support
SME
Towards a Centre of Excellence for
Highways and Transport Innovation
in West Midlands
Plus you and others.....

24. Discussion /
Questions