1. Professor Peter Landshoff Created by government 5 years ago to help UK academics have more impact on the UK economy

2. Professor Peter Landshoff A national transport data framework

3. Professor Peter Landshoff 3 Everything in transport needs data Give passengers more confidence to use public transport Help operators plan their systems Help government decide how to distribute the spend

4. Professor Peter Landshoff 4 Examples of questions Why do people use trains? What drives rail performance and costs? What is the relationship between use of transport and the growth of the economy? Are we getting value for money from the transport spend? How to balance economic and environmental considerations in decision making?

5. Professor Peter Landshoff 5 Examples of data Entry gates at car parks and rail stations Sensors in highways CCTV cameras in cities Demographic data Pollution data Weather Whole-journey information for rail or air passengers

6. Professor Peter Landshoff 6 The software Federate existing data Owners retain control and responsible for accuracy and updating Security is important Different users need different levels of access

7. Professor Peter Landshoff 7 National transport observatory Metadata in a central location Describe data held elsewhere: their format and information content Information about provenance and reliability Gives users easy access without knowing about local system Easy to add metadata for new sources

8. Professor Peter Landshoff 8 Consortium Computer scientists and experts on transport Transport operators Public bodies Cambridge Edinburgh Leeds Newcastle Imperial College and University College Southampton

9. Professor Peter Landshoff 9 Applications Must prepare a portfolio of applications to inform the writing of the metadata Then write the metadata Then develop some of the applications --- TIME --- Impact of transport on the environment

10. Professor Peter Landshoff 10 TIME Use Cambridge City as a testbed Make best use of less-than-ideal information and learn what sensors would be more appropriate Write common-platform software so that application programs can easily be bolted on (Collaboration between Cambridge and Birkbeck College)

11. Professor Peter Landshoff 11 Impact of transport on the environment Working group of the National Institute for Environmental eScience Combine transport data with atmospheric modelling Working group meets together for a week, disperses but remains in email contact, then meets again a few weeks later

12. Professor Peter Landshoff 12 Resources needed Project manager Two software developers Postdoctoral researchers and students --- ideally at least one in each partner university and spending time regularly in a partner company