Secure, real-time API for innovation and data monetisation

Alchera正在开发一个强大的软件平台(Alpha)，该平台以比现有解决方案更快、更低成本的方式提供卓越的交通管理能力。它的工作原理是融合和分析来自现有交通基础设施网络、传感器、摄像机和其他“连接的”交通方式输出的数据，并将这些新信息作为开放的API提供给内部使用和第三方消费的数字交通应用程序和工具。Alpha的核心是提供城市和道路网络中车辆和行人移动的实时量化，并以资产使用情况的分析和预测为补充，以实现快速决策和促进规划。Alpha已经成功地部署在各种道路基础设施资产的多个项目中，但这将是它首次应用于英国的战略公路网。通过与英国高速公路(HE)和现有客户的互动，Alchera发现了从道路数据中产生更大价值的机会。对于这个项目，我们建议建立一个数据管理平台，更好地利用英国高速公路的数据价值。该平台将实时整合资产数据，并通过开放的API通过可审计的访问控制和开发沙箱实现内部和外部数据共享。该平台将成为新的数据驱动型产品和服务的创新来源，并可能通过数据馈送的外部许可为高等教育提供重要的收入机会。

Alchera is developing a powerful software platform (‘Alpha’) that delivers superior traffic management capabilities in a faster and lower-cost way than existing solutions. It works by fusing and analysing data from networks of existing transport infrastructure, sensors, cameras and outputs from other 'connected' modes of transport and providing this new information as open APIs to digital transport applications and tools both for internal use and for 3rd party consumption. At its core, Alpha provides real-time quantification of vehicle and pedestrian movements in cities and on road networks, and supplements these with analytics and predictions of asset use to enable fast decision making and facilitate planning. Alpha has successfully been deployed in a number of projects across a variety of road infrastructure assets, but this will represent its first application to the UK’s strategic road network. Through interactions with Highways England (HE) and existing clients, Alchera has identified an opportunity to generate greater value from road data. For this project, we are proposing to build a data management platform that better exploits the value of Highways England’s data. The platform will consolidate asset data in real-time and enable internal and external data sharing with auditable access control and a development sandbox via an open API. The platform will become a source of innovation for new data-driven products and services as well as potentially provide HE with significant revenue opportunity through external licensing of data feeds.