Public Funding for Amey LG Limited

Greenwave is a ground breaking smartphone application which uses traffic signal data derived from Birmingham City Council’s Intelligent Transport System (ITS) to transform fleet driver behaviour through encouraging them through gamification to drive in a more efficient manner, approaching traffic signals at an optimum speed to ‘ride the Greenwave’. Drivers will be awarded with a green score each time they drive, based on both their driving style and how they approach traffic signals. Points will accumulate over the month with a monthly league board rewarding the driver with the highest score, thus gamifying driving behaviour and encouraging more efficient driving styles. The solution, developed by Checkedsafe and CloudAmber, will be deployed as a trial on 12 Masternaut equipped vehicles in Amey's Birmingham Highways utility contract over a 6 month period to monitor the impact on MPG and vehicle emissions with the aim being to deliver a 10% reduction in monthly fuel costs and CO2 emissions. There is no known solution of this type in existence which uses data feeds from existing infrastructure to provide drivers with live updates enabling them to change their driving style.

The Amey led project aims to reduce the impact of street works on the Citizen, minimise the total cost of ownership of the highway asset, introduce a new local authority scalable service spanning multiple functions utilising a smart city data platform and make joint works the norm and not the exception. This truly collaborative street works project will be driven by Staffordshire Highways with support from Staffordshire County Council and all the major utility companies. The research stream is being led by the Future Cities Catapult and Staffordshire University, with the BSI assisting with the new data standard for underground assets. This project will drive a benefit case for local authority adoption of city data platform based shared services. The technology will be based around CSC's Omnilocation and Elgin by Roadworks.org, while Tenshi Partners will work with the digital community to exploit the platform on behalf of the local community.