UK Transport Minister Baroness Kramer has announced three initiatives to accelerate the introduction of smart ticketing across the country.
At a meeting with the Smart Cities Partnership, the minister announced that over US$900,000 will be invested over the next two years to extend smart ticketing across the rail network in the West Midlands. She also presided over the signing of a concordat that sets out the basis for cooperation between bus operators and members of the partnership to start delivering
Millions of bus passengers in Greater Manchester will benefit from cheaper fares with the introduction of new smart multi-operator bus travel.
The scheme is one of the largest in the UK outside London and is the result of collaboration between more than 30 bus operators through industry body Greater Manchester Travelcards (GMTL), the organisation behind the System One brand, in partnership with Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM).
Passengers can now purchase multi-operator travel, which is store
A new application for navigation, orientation and parking designed for people with reduced mobility has been launched in Madrid, Parma, Lisbon and Reading, where it provides access to important accessibility information such as the location of disabled parking spots or the location of elevators and ramps to access subway stations.
Simon Mobile also enables users to compute walking, driving and transit routes and use step-by-step navigation during a trip.
Simon Mobile also integrates with the new EU pa
A new application programme interface (API) developed by UrbanThings for Bristol City Council claims to provide easy and free access to a huge wealth of transport data in one place, making it possible for innovative technologies to be developed.
The Bristol API supports the Council’s approach to opening up data sets, as it already does through the Bristol open data portal and is being further developed by the Bristol Is Open project. The wider aim is to work with the technology community to explore ways
