Travelai Ltd Public Funding

TravelAi proposes SRN IMPACT (InterModal Performance Analysis of Citizen Travels) to digitize travel demand surveying. We propose a state-of-the-art, automatic, digital, travel-demand-survey tool that will allow Highways England (HE) to see the movement of users between the SRN, minor roads, plane, rail, bus and metro networks. Using a smartphone’s sensors and TravelAi deep learning informed mode detection IP to automatically crowdsource rich and accurate quantitative travel-behaviour data, deliver qualitative, personalised questionnaires, and adapt its operation to external event-based triggers. Our tool will be made available for local, regional and national authorities to use. Hertfordshire County Council (HCC) sit on a DfT working group seeking new digital technologies for use in solving transport issues. HCC is responsible for 634 sqm with an urban south and rural north. It is the only county to be dissected by 4 motorways (M25, M1, A1(M), M11) with 3 major airports on its borders (Luton, Heathrow, & Stansted) making Hertfordshire a critical transport hub for the south east. Rail connectivity includes the Thameslink service taking residents directly into central London, East Coast services & London Midland. HCC are an active partner and the first of many we will recruit as testers during the real world deployment. The anticipated benefits from addressing these themes include: • Improved connectivity within the SRN and rest of the regional road network • Data today, able to inform present and future operational decisions for CAVs and SRN • Improved network capacity utilisation • Improved and more personalised engagement with customers • Greater understanding of the interoperability of different transport modes • Data to inform MaaS implementation and service bundling • Operational resilience Why SRN IMPACT is value for money:- The DfT's National Travel Survey and Transport for London's Travel Demand Survey each survey 8,000 households for 1 week at costs of £2.5m and £1.5m, respectively. Up to 27% of the cost of these paper-based surveys are 1-to-1 interviews and data entry and cleaning. By automating data collection, our proposed solution stands to yield savings well in excess of its development cost within its first use in a large-scale deployment. HE will have a 2Y license to use the solution across the SRN e.g. in its own app or in Transport Focus-led surveys.

The FLOW project brings together a vertical stack of transport actors each of which is helping to move the industry into the digital age and enable Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) to be commercially launched to the public in 2017. The FLOW project will achieve the UK’s first fully functional and integrated implementation of MaaS to impact intermodal transport options, network capacity and operational cost savings. MaaS is the provision of public and private transportations across several modes of travel through a single payment platform that delivers and tracks usage using business and service models comparable to those used in the telecoms (from Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) to bundles of calls, SMS and data). Where a transport package could include bus and train measured in trips or distance with bike hire and on-demand taxi in a single bundle and paid as one transaction. MaaS is therefore both a business model and technical platform. It draws its profitability and utility from the reduction of privately owned cars, whilst integrating public transport and emerging car-sharing/pooling offerings into a single technical integration to simplify the purchase of multiple legs and modes into a single transaction. Its flexibility allows for different business models to be tested and resolved in the field. MaaS Global Ltd are the thought leaders and visionaries who have built a MaaS solution including a consumer app called Whim that is already integrating disparate transport service providers into one place in Nordic markets. Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) are driving transformation in the heart of the UK with a coordinated vertical of transport services. And TravelAi have launched the first software only solution for gathering transport customer data using smartphones and will add analytical and modelling tools to regional and urban transport stakeholders too. Together these actors are driven by a common purpose to serve the travelling public by providing increased service options, ease of use and increased value propositions through personalisation. The opportunity for these partners to come together to identify, test and refine business models to support a commercial and technically ready service offering in 2017 is a tremendously exciting prospect enabled by this InnovateUK First-of-a-Kind call to support innovative SMEs to engage and secure commercial clients. FLOW accelerates the commercialisation of a highly scalable solution to address InnovateUK priority areas of Connected Transport and Smart Resilient Sustainable Infrastructure. Additionally, working with both UK and international end clients opens up immediate export opportunities for TravelAi’s transport solutions.

The proposed development of CATCH! is designed to provide a state-of-the-art highly-scalable system to crowdsource, analyse and act upon travel-behaviour data in real time. It will provide transport professionals with granular data and analyses on how people travel, and a 'living journey planner' that automatically records travel behaviour and gives citizens frustration-free routing based on live travel conditions. We believe in personalised solutions, with a customer centric view of transport where Catch! proactively suggests the best possible route for you. Personalised because the most convenient route may not necessarily be the fastest or most cost effective. It's about understanding the human behind the routing request. What are your preferences, routines, what's the weather like or can you tick off a chore while on the school run. In a time of austerity CATCH! will give significant value uplift to transport planners by providing a more complete and cost effective method to survey and analyse traffic flows. Be they by private or public carriages, on foot, bike or vehicle. We'll turn the world into a giant lab for delivering safer, cleaner transport choices.

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Our excessive dependence on motorised road transport imposes significant economic costs on society, such as congestion, pollution and physical inactivity and the ill health caused by it. UPBEAT is an app designed to combine personalised travel sensing, open city transport datasets and behavioural science to deliver user-centred feedback to commuters to help remove the friction of travel choice and to understand how commuters can access better modes of travel. Our key objectives are to: - 1. Help users to change travel choices from socially inefficient modes of travel (i.e. single use car journeys) to more socially acceptable methods. Such changes will in turn lead to improvements in air quality, health, personal finance, well-being, pollution and demands upon traffic services such as roads and parking 2. Understand the power of nudges and incentives in changing travel behaviour. 3. Construct a commercially viable and replicable product that removes the friction costs for travel options, which can be transferable to virtually any organisation.

MIMoDE is an evidence based and expert led study into the emerging field of activity and context sensing. It addresses the data exploration area of the ICT competition brief, specifically developing new algorithms and approaches to extract value and insight from complex data sets. Activity sensing and personalisation are important differentiators for service providers and market forecasts predict to grow from $26.50 billion in 2013 to $119.90 billion by 2018, at an estimated CAGR of 35.2% from 2013 to 2018, according to leading market research house MarketsandMarkets. The UK is a leader in personalisation services (eg. Swiftkey) and this study provides another opportunity to build on this position where TravelAI are already demonstrating class leading solutions.

Title: Citizens At The City's Heart (C.A.T.C.H.) On-demand mobility solution Abstract: TravelAI together with partners ELGIN, ITOWorld, and Placr will bring together industry leading TRL9 technologies to deliver a citizen- and business-centred journey planner and transport-usage data service that uniquely crowd sources multi-modal user data. CATCH puts the citizen at the heart of a data-led transport revolution, where changes in service provision can be tracked and optimised, and citizen movements help inform journey modelling and uniquely create the live data points. Furthermore it establishes a foundation on which to test and build new services and business models. CATCH benefits local economies, the environment, citizens, quality of life, and in time the cost of travel through improvements in capacity utilisation. CATCH provides a multi-modal door-to-door journey planner to help citizens make the most effective use of their cities' interconnected transport system. The journey planner will have particular features to aid the planning of journeys to and from business premises, such as the inclusion of a business directory and business-contributed information pertinent to travel to and from their premises. The usefulness of the journey planner will also provide the incentive for citizens to download the app and participate in the initiative by consenting to automatically submit their own data. This user data comprises their history of journey planner searches, their automatically-generated transport usage logs and any manual contributions, such as locations of potholes, notifications of late-running services or sentiment on the quality of a particular transport service. The data will be automatically analysed to enhance it with meta data such as the categorisation of purpose (e.g. commute or shopping trip). The combined data of all participating citizens will provide local government, transport planners and operators with a rich dataset to better understand the interdependency of various modes of transport and inform more effective transport services. It will also allow companies to understand travel to and from their premises so that they may be able to develop flexible working practices that take into consideration the needs of the business with the travel needs of employees and visitors.