A public journey planning platform and mobile application for accessing and travelling to Covid-19 test centres

用于访问和前往 Covid-19 测试中心的公共旅程规划平台和移动应用程序

• 批准号: 64217
• 金额: $ 6.22万
• 依托单位: IBI GROUP (UK) LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=64217
• 关键词: public; journey; planning; platform; mobile

Over the next few months many Covid-19 test sites will be set up across the UK. Indeed, there are already many appearing. These sites are being established in a range of locations including park and ride sites, hospitals, universities and at theme parks. It is estimated that hundreds will be created. Many of these sites may be unusual locations for receiving medical attention and may certainly only be accessible by private car. Equally some road operations and access/egress points to these sites will be altered to accommodate the unique situation.In addition, many of these sites may have certain restrictions at certain times for population cohorts or groups. Demand may sometimes be very high resulting in traffic queues and congestion. If these challenges are managed well it will improve the efficiency and resilience of the test sites whilst increasing efficiency and ensuring more people get tested in a timely manner, helping support the UKs recovery.Our vision is to assist through the development of a platform that helps to manage the operation and public access to these test sites by providing tools to plan the right journeys, at the right times based on the best information and data collected and provided by the test site operational teams.At its simplest the platform will consist of a multimodal journey planning app, a system to create and a manage testing site data and information on the journey planning app and an API to provide test site data to third parties.Our Platform, delivered as a mobile application, will provide the user with the ability to confidently plan a journey to test sites. It will also provide information about each site, the eligibility of test recipients at each location, specific information about each site, help manage demand, allow users to subscribe to receive real-time updates regarding the status of their local test site, provide parking and other transport related information. It can also be used to provide levels of busyness at test sites helping to smooth the demand curve.UPDATED 29th September 2020:The project, the milestones and deliverables detailed above have been completed on time and under budget. An extension of the work is proposed, that will move the product to a trial phase and use unspent funds to conduct a live assessment of the app at a Covid-19 test centre. To achieve this, we will investigate the structure of existing testing regimes to best understand the relationships between management contractors, test centre management and the best business model for provision of the application to operators. As part of this process we hope to identify a small number of test centres and management organisations interested in participating in a trial, who we will work with to confirm the scope of such a trial. We will document the scope of the trial outlining and where and how findings will be captured and used to inform further refinement and/or update of the platform. This will culminate in the Trial Methodology outlining activities and steps to be followed by test centres and users to enable the trial to take place without introducing excessive administrative effort by stakeholders. We anticipate running the trial for a two-week period (weekdays and weekends). The trial will be monitored throughout. Outcomes and findings will be captured in a technical report. The report will also identify if the app could be repurposed for later activities during the Covid-19 management and recovery phases such as vaccination programs and antibody testing programs.

在接下来的几个月里，英国各地将建立许多新冠病毒检测点。事实上，已经有很多人出现了。这些站点正在一系列地点建立，包括公园和游乐场、医院、大学和主题公园。据估计，将有数百人被创建。这些地点中，有许多可能是接受医疗护理的不寻常地点，而且肯定只能由私家车前往。此外，为配合个别情况，这些地点的道路运作和出入点亦会有所改变。此外，很多地点在某些时候可能会对人口组别或组别实施某些限制。需求有时可能非常高，导致交通排队和拥堵。如果这些挑战得到妥善管理，将提高考点的效率和弹性，同时提高效率，确保更多人及时接受检测，帮助支持英国的复苏。我们的愿景是通过开发一个平台来提供帮助，通过提供工具来规划正确的旅程，帮助管理这些考点的运营和公众访问，根据测试现场运营团队收集和提供的最佳信息和数据，在正确的时间进行测试。最简单的是，该平台将包括一个多模式行程规划应用程序，一个用于创建和管理测试现场数据和行程规划应用程序信息的系统，以及一个用于向第三方提供测试现场数据的API。我们的平台，作为移动的应用程序交付，将为用户提供自信地计划前往测试地点的旅程的能力。它还将提供有关每个站点的信息，每个位置的测试接受者的资格，每个站点的具体信息，帮助管理需求，允许用户订阅以接收有关本地测试站点状态的实时更新，提供停车和其他交通相关信息。它还可以用于提供测试站点的繁忙程度，帮助平滑需求曲线。2020年9月29日宣布：上述项目、里程碑和交付成果已在预算范围内按时完成。这项工作的扩展被提议，这将使该产品进入试用阶段，并使用未使用的资金在新冠病毒测试中心对该应用程序进行现场评估。为实现这一目标，我们将调查现有测试制度的结构，以最好地了解管理承包商、测试中心管理层和向运营商提供应用程序的最佳商业模式之间的关系。作为这一过程的一部分，我们希望确定少数有兴趣参与试验的考试中心和管理组织，我们将与他们合作，以确认此类试验的范围。我们将记录试验范围概述以及在何处以及如何获取结果并用于通知平台的进一步完善和/或更新。这将最终形成试验方法，概述试验中心和用户应遵循的活动和步骤，以使试验能够在不引起利益相关者过多行政工作的情况下进行。我们预计试验将持续两周（工作日和周末）。将对试验进行全程监测。将在技术报告中记录结果和调查结果。该报告还将确定该应用程序是否可以重新用于新冠肺炎管理和恢复阶段的后续活动，如疫苗接种计划和抗体检测计划。