Through our Integrated and Smart Travel programme, we launched an Innovation Partnership procurement under Regulation 31 of the UK’s Public Contracts legislation.
This would have allowed us to work with transport, ticketing and payment suppliers – as well as other tech experts, SMEs, start-ups and other innovators – from across the world to research and explore new ideas to enhance our public transport networks.
We asked what never-before-used and near-to-market technologies could help us to:
“Digitally connect the North’s transport actors to enable incentivisation of greener, shared and active mobility across the North of England”
Unfortunately, this procurement was cancelled following news the Department for Transport would not provide further ongoing funding.
Our Innovation Partnership procurement went live on the OJEU network on October 19th 2020 and was open for submissions for 30 days until November 18th 2020. It is now closed.
We had aimed to conduct technology demonstrator projects by March 2021, with the outcomes of these demonstrators then used to inform and de-risk later phases of the IST programme.
But the cancellation of ongoing funding for the IST programme means there will be no further work on this procurement for 2021/22.
This is our vision of a digital network connecting transport operators, travel schemes, local authorities, businesses and other mobility organisations which allows them to interact with each other and provide passengers with travel incentives and benefits that promote public transport and other forms of greener, shared and active mobility.
The Innovation workstream would have helped us understand what new technologies may be able to support this.
Building on existing systems and using innovative new technologies, a Smart North Ecosystem could have enabled:
Compared to traditional ticketing, a Smart North Ecosystem could also better support our Local Transport Authority partners in achieving other objectives including:
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