Ideas in Transit
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Ideas in Transit is a five-year project that applies User Innovation to the transport challenges faced by individuals and society. It is a unique collaboration between Government, Commercial and Academic thought leaders and their networks. It will influence intelligent transport decisions at policy, social, personal and commercial levels.
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Ideas in Transit has supported the following OpenStreetMap related research.
- Development and operation of OSM Mapper by ITO World
- Facilitation and support of the NaPTAN import which is adding details of 350,000 bus stops, ferry terminals etc to OSM from the official DfT dataset.
- Development of OpenStreetMap 2008 - A year of edits by ITO World.
- Development of the Ideas in Transit wiki with details of many OpenStreetMap related innovations.
- Research PhD: '|Assessing Value in VGI Systems'
- OSM and OSL differences tileset and OSM and OSL differences analysis using OS Locator files.
- Experiments with modeling past and future transport systems. Peter Miller will be presenting a talk about this at State Of The Map 2010. See also the associated Coachway vision project.
- A project to use subjective information in routing decisions and to target funds for infrastructure improvements effectively.
- Airspace rebooted animation using OSM data as a backdrop.
Research Team
- The University of the West of England Centre for Transport and Society
- The University of Loughborough Ergonomics & Safety Research Institute
- ITO World
- Ordnance Survey
Sponsors
- UK Department for Transport
- The Technology Strategy Board
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
