England's Economic Heartland is working with two SMEs as they develop innovative solutions to better understand travel behaviours, as part of Connected Places Catapult's 'Local Authority Transport Decarbonisation Accelerator'.
The six-month programme is designed to trial disruptive new innovations aimed at reducing transport emissions. Connected Places Catapult will assist the SMEs by providing a bespoke programme of commercial support.
As part of the programme, EEH set a challenge to develop innovative solutions to better understand how policy affects resident’s transport choices.
The two SMEs chosen to undertake the challenge are Calcommuter and TravelAI.
Calcommuter is 'an intelligent commute survey platform that analyses commuting habits and calculates alternatives to help organisations report on and reduce commute and home working emissions (Scope 3)'.
The TravelAI project will tell 'the end-to-end transport stories of citizens at scale, using travel diary app MyWays that identifies routes, times and modes of travel taken'.
Two other challenges were set as part of the programme, with a pair of SMEs chosen for each: 'incentivising the transition of taxis to electric vehicles' (set by Cardiff Council) and 'decarbonisation of refuse collection vehicles' (set by Adur & Worthing Councils).