DATA CARGO

DATA CARGO

The Data Cargo project is a collaboration between The Data Place Ltd and Bikespace CIC, two social enterprises based in Plymouth, which is part of a national pilot to trial electric cargo bikes to speed up and green up local goods deliveries. Our project will feature a number of local creative businesses that have signed up to participate in the pilot.

We will assemble a set of sensors that fit into each bike and capture a range of data as the bikes travel the city, resulting in numerous data products that can inform urban planning and help bike users plan journeys better, and new ways for the businesses to share data with each other.

ABOUT THE TEAM

This project is a collaboration between The Data Place Ltd and Bikespace CIC, two social enterprises based in Plymouth, which is part of a national pilot to trial electric cargo bikes to speed up and green up local goods deliveries. Our project will feature a number of local creative businesses that have signed up to participate in the pilot. We will assemble a set of sensors that fit into each bike and capture a range of data as the bikes travel the city, resulting in numerous data products that can inform urban planning and help bike users plan journeys better, and new ways for the businesses to share data with each other.

Our team are:

Martin Howitt (technology lead, TDP)
Simon Gough (design and prototyping lead, TDP)
Lucy Knight (data lead, TDP)
Gareth Thomas (Bikespace CIC)
Sabrina Simpson (market research lead, TDP).
Our team has backgrounds in creative design, technology, data science/management and bicycle maintenance. We’re particularly interested in the power of open data in fields that have previously been data rich but where that data is not shared effectively: as such our idea will hopefully not only be interesting from a data analytics perspective but also have potential to model a new kind of open data institution for transport data.