Real-time data-driven insights to drive sustainable travel & bus network resilience post-Covid-19

公共汽车不按时运行是交通部门长期面临的问题。包括剑桥在内的主要城市一直在努力了解公交车延误的根本原因，以便更好地管理和运营更广泛的交通服务，并鼓励更可持续地使用公共交通工具。然而，由于新冠肺炎疫情，道路使用情况发生了逐步变化，包括路面尺寸增加、新的自行车路线和不断变化的出行行为，这意味着公共交通运营将变得比以往任何时候都更具挑战性。尽管2019冠状病毒病暂时减少了整个公交网络的公交车使用率，但长期公交使用仍然是交通政策的重要支柱。了解公交网络的运行情况可以为如何以灵活和响应的方式改进公交网络提供关键见解，鼓励更高的公交入住率，并为政策提供信息，让更多的汽车离开道路。新冠疫情的潜在影响之一是，它提供了一个独特的机会来了解网络动态，因为由于封锁和道路上的车辆减少，所有公共汽车都运行得更加平稳。然而，随着封锁继续解除，越来越多的车辆、行人和骑自行车的人回到我们的道路上，拥堵点已经开始再次出现。在这个项目中，Alchera将与智能剑桥项目密切合作；这是大剑桥伙伴关系（GCP）的一个倡议部分，该组织包括剑桥郡议会、剑桥市议会、南剑桥郡区议会和剑桥大学，旨在实施大剑桥城市协议。Alchera将与Smart Cambridge紧密合作，开发一种完全集成的工具，以识别公交车何时与预期时间表不同步。这些数据见解将确定关键点，以便为运营决策和更广泛的交通政策提供信息，以更好地运行剑桥郡的公共汽车服务，从而鼓励采用可持续旅行。这项工作将建立在Alchera通过我们的智能数据中心提供软件工具和机器学习的能力之上，并提供与英国各地地方当局使用的现有工作场所工具（如Power BI）的集成，使他们能够做出数据驱动的决策。

Buses running to schedule is a perennial problem faced by transport authorities. Major cities including Cambridge have struggled to gain insights into the root cause of bus delays, in order to better manage and operate wider transport services and encourage more sustainable use of public transport.However, step changes to road usage due to Covid-19, including increased pavement sizes, new cycle routes and changing travel behaviours mean that public transport operation is set to become more challenging than ever.While Covid-19 has temporarily reduced the occupancy of buses across the network, longer-term bus use remains a vital pillar in transport policy. Understanding how the bus network is performing can provide key insights into how it can be improved in an agile and responsive fashion, encouraging higher bus occupancy, and informing policy to getting more cars off the road.One of the underlying impacts of Covid is that it provides a unique opportunity to understand network dynamics as all buses have been operating more smoothly due to lockdown and fewer vehicles on the road. However as the lockdown continues to lift and more vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists return to our roads, pinch points are already beginning to occur again.In this project, Alchera will work closely with the Smart Cambridge programme; an initiative part of the Greater Cambridge Partnership (GCP) a body which includes, Cambridgeshire County Council, Cambridge City Council, South Cambridgeshire District Council and the University of Cambridge and was set up to deliver the Greater Cambridge City Deal.Working closely together with Smart Cambridge, Alchera will develop a fully integrated tool to identify when buses are running out of sync with the expected timetables. These data insights will identify pinch-points in order to inform operational decision making & wider transport policy for the better running of bus services in Cambridgeshire, in turn encouraging the adoption of sustainable travel. This work will build on Alchera's capabilities providing software tools and machine learning via our Intelligent Data Hub, and provide integration to existing workplace tools such as Power BI used by Local Authorities across the UK, to enable them to make data-driven decisions.