The Birmingham Highways Data Challenge wouldn’t be possible without the support of the following people and organisations:
Costain, for sponsoring the event
West Midlands Combined Authority / Transport for West Midlands: Andy Page, Chris Lane and Chris Perry for supporting the event and collaboration with ITS-UK. Stu Lester for framing the data challenges and Glyn Simpson for providing technical support and access to the datasets.
Birmingham City Council: Andy Radford for setting the vision, sharing his work on Open Transport Net and Opticities, support and prizes
Innovation Birmingham / Innovation Engine / ODI Birmingham: Hugo Russell for his support in connecting and co-ordinating activities to enable the wider collaboration, Andrew Mackenzie at ODI Birmingham, and the team at Innovation Birmingham for helping to make it a success
ITS-UK: for their enthusiasm and support in collaboration
Department for Transport: Nic Cary for compering the event, and Katherine Attwood for supporting the organisation and logistics
Highways England: Ivan Wells and Dominic Paulo for providing access to the National Traffic Information Service (NTIS) datasets for the event, and Chris Barnes for supporting the event
All those not already mentioned above for sharing their data, expertise and time for the workshop/hack:
HS2, Monica Howat, Information Strategy Manager
West Midlands Fire Service, Jason Davies
GEOmii, Martin de Heaver
TransportAPI, Jonathan Raper, CEO
Mott MacDonald, Michael Montgomery, and Ian Owen