Covid-19 transport travel times

TravelTime Technologies已经建立了一个技术平台并将其商业化，该平台由API访问，使40个国家的客户能够通过旅行时间而不是距离来分析他们自己的数据。作为一个例子，NHS使用我们的平台来确定在最佳人口范围内的卫生设施。然而，新冠肺炎极大地改变了旅行时间，主要线路和地铁站关闭，公共汽车和火车时刻表改变，道路速度提高。这意味着，在规划新冠病毒检测中心的位置时（例如），“新冠病毒旅行时间”意味着远远超过“正常旅行时间”。我们收到了来自政府部门、非政府组织、慈善机构、卫生服务机构和其他在前线应对新冠肺炎的组织的多个“新冠肺炎旅行时间API”请求。作为回应，我们已经镜像了我们现有的平台，并将在5月初开始测试我们的“Covid TravelTime API”。我们会向这些前线服务免费提供资料，不论他们使用的API为何。我们相信这将是世界上唯一一种这样的API，毫无疑问，它将拯救生命。在新冠肺炎疫情过后，当出行时间恢复正常时，我们将重新利用这面“镜子”API，以便交通规划者可以用它来模拟拟议中的新交通基础设施对现有公路、铁路、公交和地铁网络的影响。这项提议的创新之处在于：1）它建立在一个已经获得专利的、创新的和现有的TravelTime平台之上，没有这个平台，就无法构建“Covid TravelTime API”。2)世界上任何地方都没有同等的“Covid TravelTime”API。3)我们目前的API已经是，而Covid TravelTime API将作为ESRI、Alteryx和开源QGIS的Arcgis的主要GIS（地理信息服务）中的即插即用解决方案提供--在抗击Covid的前线团队中，很少有数据规划者不使用这些GIS服务中的一种（或多种）。这意味着我们的API将立即提供给一线组织中几乎所有需要它的人，只需点击一个按钮（字面意思）。4）在新冠肺炎后，当我们重新调整API用于未来基础设施规划时，几乎所有的交通规划者都使用一个或多个这些GIS应用程序，我们将有一条现成的市场路线。

TravelTime Technologies have already built and commercialised a technology platform, accessed by API, that enables clients in 40 countries to analyse their own data by travel time, not distance. As one example, the NHS use our platform to determine where to locate health facilities within reach of an optimum population. However, Covid has changed travel times dramatically as mainline and underground stations have closed, bus and train timetables have changed, and road speeds have increased. This means that when planning the location of Covid testing centres (for example) 'Covid travel times' mean far more than 'normal travel times'. We've had multiple requests for a 'Covid TravelTime API' from government departments, NGOs, charities, health services and other organisations who are on the front-line tackling Covid. In response we have already mirrored our existing platform and in early May we will start testing our 'Covid TravelTime API'. We will deliver it free of charge to these front-line services, irrespective of their API usage. We believe this will be the only such API in the world and it will, without doubt, save lives. After Covid, when travel times return to normal, we will repurpose this 'mirror' API so that transport planners can use it to model the impact of proposed new transport infrastructure on the existing road, rail, bus and subway networks. What's innovative about this proposal is; 1) it builds upon an already patented, innovative and existing TravelTime platform without which the 'Covid TravelTime API' could not be built. 2) There is no equivalent 'Covid TravelTime API anywhere in the world. 3) our current API already is, and the Covid TravelTime API will be, available as a plug and play solution within the dominant GIS (Geographic Information Services) of Arcgis from ESRI, Alteryx, and the opensource QGIS -- there are few data planners in the front line teams battling Covid who don't use one (or more) of these GIS services. It means our API will instantly be available at a click of a button (literally) for just about everyone in the front-line organisations asking for it. And 4) post covid, when we repurpose the API for future infrastructure planning, again, nearly all transport planners use one or more of these GIS applications and we will have a ready route to market.