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TRANSPORT Smart Classes show key buyer side stakeholders how they can deploy the latest digital technology-enabled solutions, data-driven strategies and best practices to tackle their transport sector challenges (e.g. around congestion, traffic flows, air pollution and emissions, noise, first and last mile mobility, customer experience, cost effectiveness, connecting transport networks, managing and maintaining assets & infrastructure) and deliver a transport system that will allow passengers and citizens to travel efficiently, safely and with minimal impact on the environment.
Qualifying delegates include commissioning, procurement, trialling and partnering leads, senior influencers, strategic decision makers and planners from local authorities (e.g. city, borough, metropolitan, district and county councils); public transport operators; regional transport partnerships, sub-regional transport bodies, combined authorities, integrated transport authorities and passenger transport executives; highways authorities and road operators; government and supporting national transport agencies; fleet operators, parking operators, prime contractors etc.
Core themes range from on-demand transport and MaaS applications, EVs and e-mobility, micro mobility, predictive traffic management, journey time monitoring, smart parking and enforcing CAZs and LEZs, to active travel and behavioural change, analysing people movements, new ways of visualising data, connected and autonomous vehicles, intelligent street lighting, real-time transport modelling, smart ticketing and fare collection, and ITS in a Covid and post-Covid world.
On Friday September 9th we will be casting a spotlight over the North of England, hosting our speakers discussions on how the latest digital innovations can help overcome the transport and mobility challenges faced by city-regions of the Northern Powerhouse and beyond. Delegates will hear from industry movers, shapers and disruptors during initial rapid-fire thought leadership presentations, before moving on to in-depth consultations with experts and peers during the roundtable discussions. In addition, this Smart Class will feature up to 3 keynote presentations from ITAs, PTEs, major transport operators, agencies or local/combined authorities giving real world insight into their collaborative initiatives, digital journeys and adoptions of emerging, transformative technologies.
TRANSPORT Smart Class, North of England 2022 takes place at Chetham’s School of Music, Manchester, and follows on from highly acclaimed 2021 (Manchester), 2019 (Leeds) and 2018 (Manchester) editions. This half day in-person event is free to attend for bona fide delegates satisfying our registration criteria.
Our previous Transport Smart Classes have attracted senior delegates from:
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Testimonials and feedback:
“Thanks to everyone at Smart Classes for hosting their recent North of England 2021 Transport Smart Class and for the invitation to present on TfN’s Future Travel Scenarios and their application towards decarbonisation, EV charging infrastructure, transport planning, future mobility, future travel and spatial planning. It was strange but fun being back at a face-to-face event, seeing some familiar faces, and the innovator roundtable sessions were really engaging” “Really interesting Morning” “A very useful event, well worth the time spent. All the presentations and roundtables were valuable” “Good event, relevant and well run” “Many thanks for running the Smart Class this morning. It was a very well delivered and informative event” “Thanks again for a great event in Manchester, really well organised and great speakers!” “Thank you for organising. Presentations and roundtables were excellent” “Excellent event” “A valuable opportunity” “The format worked well, and a good choice of topics in the right level of detail” “Great event” “Roundtables were all enjoyable and very engaging” “Thank you very much for organising the Smart Class last Friday. It was a very useful and well organised event. I hope that me and my colleagues can be part of the event again in the future” “Found the event very worthwhile and would value attending further events in the future” “Back to conference and commute. Great to meet real people, hear insightful presentations and have rich conversations at Transport Smart Class, North” “Really enlightening” “Thanks so much for the invite and organising the session on Friday. It was a great event and very nice to see some of the transport community in person after so long” “A very valuable event. I learned a lot about current transport innovations” “Thanks for having me, I really enjoyed the event. Great amount of time – half a day – with great number of interesting presentations and a delicious lunch” “Thank you Smart Classes for inviting me to speak at the event! It was great to hear and discuss the challenges transport authorities and local authorities face when designing frictionless and inclusive transport systems. A very engaging crowd!” “Thoroughly enjoyed the Smart Class in Leeds and got a lot out of it” “Thanks for running a great event” “Very well organised and delighted with the feedback from such an attentive and informed audience. A great format and a pleasure to meet the delegates and discuss some of their own smart city challenges” “I would like to thank you for your help with the organisation of the Smart Classes sessions. It was a great event!” “For our first meeting outside France, I had the pleasure to present at the Transport Smart Class in Manchester…insightful and inspirational presentations from TfGM, National Highways, TfN, Padam Mobility, Videalert, Project Centre and Vortex IoT” “Thanks for having us Smart Classes. We loved presenting on new vehicle to infrastructure technologies and chatting about use cases for continuous urban scanning” “Thanks for organising. It was a great event and brilliant to speak and meet with people in person” “Thankyou for organising such a great event and having us on board…really enjoyed!” “A great event with a lot of interesting discussions”
Head of Innovation, Transport for Greater Manchester
Senior Major Roads Planning and Strategy Officer, Transport for the North
Strategic Transportation Manager, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Group Leader Transport Projects, Blackpool Council
Principal Engineer – Highway Network Resilience & Traffic Manager, City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
Project Manager, West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership
Head of Environment, Planning & Infrastructure, Manchester City Council
Specialist Transport Planner, North East Combined Authority
Technology & Change Business Partner, North Yorkshire County Council
Intelligent Transport Systems Analyst, South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive
Senior Consultant & Rail Subject Matter Expert, Transport for the North
Sustainable Journeys Delivery Officer (Clean Air), Transport for Greater Manchester
Principal Traffic Engineer, Warwickshire County Council
Transport Planner, Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council
Chief Executive, Highways Term Maintenance Association
Work Winning Director, AECOM
Principal ITS Engineering Manager, Amey Consulting
Research and Behaviours Lead – Intelligent Mobility & Smart Technologies, Atkins Global
Managing Consultant – Transport Planning, MM Transport Planning
Senior Future Mobility Consultant, WSP
Co-Founder & CEO, CityMaaS (Innovation Sponsor)
Founder & COO, Vivacity Labs (Innovation Sponsor)
Head of Marketing, Clearview Intelligence (Innovation Sponsor)
Managing Director, Imperial Civil Enforcement Solutions (Innovation Sponsor)
Strategic Marketing Manager, Padam Mobility (Innovation Sponsor)
International Sales Director, Instant System (Innovation Sponsor)
CEO and CTO, Vortex IoT (Innovation Sponsor)
Head of UK Business Development, Padam Mobility (Innovation Sponsor)
Area Manager, Instant System (Innovation Sponsor)
Head of Business Development & International Partnerships, Padam Mobility (Innovation Sponsor)
Speakers
“Collaborating to Deliver More Connected Mobility Across the North” – In this opening keynote, TfN’s Head of Digital Strategy, Matt Smallwood, will set out how Transport for the North is working across regional authorities to help maximise the scale, spread and impact of existing digital innovation in the North.
He will detail the Connected Mobility Hub concept being developed to ‘level-up’ and support non-mayoral combined authorities, and provide information around how TfN aims to act as a regional centre of excellence developing and delivering efficiencies of scale and the exchange of knowledge and expertise between areas.
Matt will also explain how this work will then shape the aspirational roadmap for a holistic Connected Mobility Strategy for the North of England, bringing together authorities ambitions and objectives to realise quicker and more cost effective delivery.
“Putting Bus at the Heart of the Liverpool City Region’s Transport Revolution” – The LCR is transforming its transport system, from new publicly-owned trains for Merseyrail to the first new Mersey Ferry for 60 years. However, the bus remains the backbone of the transport system and upcoming reform and investment will ensure that it plays a full part in delivering London-style transport for the region.
In this keynote presentation, Councillor Liam Robinson – the LCRCA’s Portfolio Holder for Transport (and Chair of Merseytravel’s Transport Committee) will talk about the key projects which are bringing the LCR’s vision for bus to reality, from industry-leading zero emission hydrogen buses to prioritising buses through the Green Bus Routes programme and reforming the region’s bus system.
“Learning from Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Trials – Scaling Up to Deliver the National Highways Connected Services Roadmap” – Dr Joanna White heads up National Highways’ Roads Development Division, a division focussed on intelligent transport systems, energy and road design.
In this keynote, she’ll outline “what we’ve learnt from CAV road trials, and how these activities are being scaled up to deliver our connected services roadmap, part of our Digital for Customer ambitions – from our Digital Roads vision”. Digital roads harness data, technology and connectivity to improve the way the strategic road network is designed, built, operated and used.
Jo will also explain how this work can also enable National Highways to deliver net zero highways and fulfill the ambitions in their carbon plan.
“Bus Franchising and Enhanced Partnerships – Strategies for Success” – Bus franchising is a hot topic right now as authorities look to up their game to improve value and service levels to passengers, and reverse years of patronage decline. Much franchising discussion references a ‘London-Style’ system because the capital is the only UK city where such an approach has been implemented. Trapeze Group has been central to London’s franchised model, having developed and managed the iBus system that underpins it over the past 15 years. And as a market-leading transport solutions provider in regions outside of London, Trapeze has a breadth and depth of expertise across both franchised and deregulated bus models.
In this presentation, Trapeze’s Intelligent Mobility Solutions Manager, Colin Urquhart will discuss the critical themes, deliverables and measures associated with a London-Style franchising solution – as well as some of the pitfalls that authorities following this path should avoid. He will outline the importance of data consistency from conception, through route design and the tender process, to live operations; accurate passenger information and the critically important calculation of operator payment based on service delivery KPIs. Excellence in passenger experience has been Colin’s biggest driver since his early career at Nexus in Tyne & Wear, and subsequently at Strathclyde Partnership for Transport.
“Smarter Assets, Sustainable Communities” – The requirements of effective transport management go beyond operations management and include robust planning, Internet of Things (IoT), Environmental Social Governance (ESG) and sustainability to serve ever evolving needs. This demands enterprise-wide engagement and a focus on corporate/local strategies to ensure that all parties involved are pulling together to achieve these key elements.
Globally, individuals, businesses and companies are ever more dependent on efficient, sustainable travel and multi-modal options. The implementation, maintenance and communication with users and potential users is critical to uptake, service perceptions and overall success.
In this innovator presentation, Brightly will explain how EAM enables organisations to transform the performance of their assets, effectively integrate with IoT and deliver to their ESG requirements in support of effective transportation services, all in one platform.
“How to Set up a Tailor-Made DRT Service: Success Factors for DRT Planning and Operations” – As diverse as the challenges in public transport are, the bottom line is that low efficiency and declining passenger numbers are the decisive factors for the success of a service. Demand responsive services can provide the solution here, both for passengers and for the operator. But how do you build a successful on-demand transport service? What opportunities does on-demand transport offer in my region and what differences in planning need to be taken into account? What criteria does software have to fulfil so that transport can really be operated in a user-oriented and economically efficient way?
In this presentation, Alina and Laura from the software-as-a-service provider ioki will highlight the most important criteria for a successful implementation of on-demand transport, from the data-driven analysis in the run-up to planning to the appropriate parameters in the product setup. The ioki team will provide input and best practice examples on how to make your on-demand service a complete success.
“Lessons Learnt from the Active Travel Trail” – In 2017 the UK Government published its first Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy which sets out the ambition to make walking and cycling the natural choices for shorter journeys. It also supports the transformation of local areas with change which will tackle our congested roads. This strategy seeks to enable a long-term approach to developing local cycling and walking networks to help to increase the number of trips made by bike or on foot.
Active travel a fast-moving area of transport planning, design and delivery, accelerated by the pandemic, and the Governments “Gear Change” – a bold vision for Cycling and Walking. With experience of delivering thousands of walking and cycling schemes, Project Centre’s presentation will touch on the key learnings with a particular focus on the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority’s Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan. Graham and Steph will also be diving into the delicate process of the engagement and consultation process of active travel planning.
“MaaS – It’s a People Thing!” – Alex Stewart, General Manager Siemens Mobility Software (UKI), will explain in this presentation how Mobility as a Service needs to appeal to the end user with seamless plan, book, pay and ride.
It seems like an obvious statement to make that end user participation is key to the success of any MaaS deployment but often technology blinds us to that fact. Alex will show us what MaaS means to the different stakeholders and how we can help the end user understand, trust, and use the system.
Agenda
- 8:30 am - 9:00 am Registration, Networking and Continental Breakfast
- 9:00 am - 9:30 am Introduction and Opening Keynote
- 9:30 am - 11:10 am Expert Presentations (followed by teas & coffees)
- 11:10 am - 11:30 am Keynote Speaker 2
- 11:30 am - 1:10 pm Roundtable Discussions and Consultations
- 1:10 pm - 1:30 pm Keynote Speaker 3
- 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Close and Lunch Networking
