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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, partnering and policy leads, senior influencers, strategic decision makers, programme managers 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 Thursday November 28th we will be casting a spotlight over South West England, hosting our speakers discussions on how the latest digital innovations can help overcome the transport and mobility challenges faced by burgeoning city-regions such as Bath, Bristol, Cheltenham, Exeter, Gloucester, Plymouth and Torbay, Bournemouth/Poole, Salisbury, Swindon, 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, South West England 2024 takes place in Bristol, and follows on from highly acclaimed 2022, 2019 and 2018 editions for the South West region (also all hosted in Bristol). This half day in-person event is free to attend for bona fide delegates satisfying our registration criteria.
Previous Transport Smart Classes have attracted senior delegates from:
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Testimonials and feedback:
Digital Project Manager and Transport Data Hub Lead, West of England Combined Authority (WECA)
“Thank you, I found it all really valuable”
Partnerships and Public Affairs Manager – West of England, Sustrans
“Thursday was a really good event and we all appreciated the chance to attend”
Senior Transport Policy Officer – Highways Development Management, North Somerset Council
“Very interesting, thanks for a great day! Sustainable transport options, connectivity, highway maintenance and safety of particular interest”
Transport Policy Officer, North Somerset Council
“All of the roundtables were relevant and interesting, including how we move forwards to improve opportunities, uptake and behaviour change”
Transport Policy Officer, North Somerset Council
“Very interesting, engaging and overall useful event today, thanks once again”
Senior Transport Policy Officer, Development & Environment, North Somerset Council
“Very useful and informative. Thank you”
Principal Transport Planning Officer, South Gloucestershire Council
“Very useful workshop”
Transport and Development Manager, Wiltshire Council
“Outstanding! Great speakers and presentations from the businesses and I look forward to applying the concepts from the ideas shared at the event in my future endeavours as well as sharing with Portsmouth CC”
ITS Planner, Portsmouth City Council
“Thank you for putting the Smart Class together. I am going to put my team in touch with some of the innovator speakers as I can see some potential there. Hopefully see you at future editions!”
Network Operations Manager, Dorset Council
“Informative and relevant for local authorities and related consultants”
Parking Manager, Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council
“Excellent organisation, event experience, facilities and venue”
Rethinking Transport Programme Manager, Surrey County Council
“A thoroughly worthwhile morning”
Policy Manager, Department for Transport
“This was my second smart class – again, very well organised with great content”
Acting Head of Insight, Transport Focus
“Thankyou for the invite and well done, a really useful session”
Regional Director, Transportation/SW England & Wales Teams Lead, AECOM
“Delighted to be at the West of England Smart Class and enjoyed the experience. It felt comfortable and collaborative, and all of the roundtables got useful debate going. Keep up the good work!”
Market Director – Transport Infrastructure, Amey Consulting
“A very good event, thanks for inviting me”
Senior Transport Planner, Arup
“Really enjoyed the event in Bristol, was great to meet people in person again. My first in-person event since pandemic!”
Principal Transport Planner, Mott MacDonald
“Another informative and educational experience. All of the presentations were helpful and all good roundtable discussions. Found systems and services that could benefit all our business groups”
Principal Transport Planner, Norman Rourke Pryme
“Good format – glad I attended!”
Director – Transport Planning, Norman Rourke Pryme
Informative Transport Smart Class in Bristol today…all of the presentations were valuable!”
Principal Transport Planner, Norman Rourke Pryme
“I found the Smart Class extremely helpful and definitely broadened my knowledge of the exciting developments taking place in the transport sector”
Associate Transport Planner, Paul Basham Associates
“Fantastic and insightful as always. Thank you to Smart Classes and the team for such a great day”
Managing Director, Smart Transport Hub
“Excellent opportunity to meet peers interested and experienced in similar subject areas. Good format with roundtables”
Director Transport Planning, SYSTRA
“Really wonderful to do this in person, great knowledge sharing and networking”
Associate Director, WSP
“Thank you for a really informative and enjoyable session! Sustainable travel and zero carbon communities (cycling, low traffic neighbourhoods etc) especially close to my heart”
Doctoral Researcher in Future Sustainable Mobility and Associate Research Director, University of Bath and City Global Futures
“It was a great event and glad to see some familiar and new faces in the room”
Business Development Lead – Transport Innovation, Connected Places Catapult
“Great to speak at the Transport Smart Class today in Bristol on how we use data science and continual analysis to test and expand our DRT services. What made the presentation more special was the fact that Bristol is a very important city in the story of Padam Mobility. It was the location for our first SaaS operation, ‘Slide Bristol’, the first DDRT operation in the UK which proved a great testing ground for our platform”
UK Business Development Lead, Padam Mobility (Innovation Sponsor)
“Thank you for another impeccably run event with topics so hot the fire alarm went off!”
General Manager, Siemens IMS (UK) at Siemens Mobility (Innovation Sponsor)
“Great event, thoroughly engaged audience, looking forward to the next one in Cardiff”
Commercial Director, Vortex IoT, part of Marston Holdings (Innovation Sponsor)
“Great event and superb networking opportunity”
Strategy and Business Development, Transformation and Bid Management, Imperial Civil Enforcement Solutions (Innovation Sponsor)
“It was a pleasure to take part”
Director of Programmes, BetterPoints (Innovation Sponsor)
“Great job hosting the smart class yesterday, it was very insightful and I really enjoyed the other speakers there”
Community Manager, Faxi (Innovation Sponsor)
“Great morning, thoroughly enjoyed the debate on how existing technologies are supporting the challenge of delivering clean air zones. Thanks for a good session”
Strategy and Business Development, Transformation & Bid Management, Imperial (Innovation Sponsor)
“Thanks very much, a very well organised event”
Project Manager, South West & Wales, Living Streets (Innovation Sponsor)
“It was a pleasure to speak at the Transport Smart Class in Bristol today about the importance of passenger data in MaaS”/”We look forward to being involved again in the future”
Founder & CEO/Head of Marketing, UrbanThings (Innovation Sponsor)
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 - 10:40 am Expert Presentations
- 10:40 am - 11:00 am Keynote Speaker 2
- 11:00 am - 12:40 pm Roundtable Discussions and Consultations
- 12:40 pm - 1:00 pm Keynote Speaker 3
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Close and Lunch Networking