Traffex 2017

• Project DISC, Birmingham City University (they have lego….!)

• Birmingham in Real Time (BiRT), Birmingham City University

• Urban Living Birmingham, Aston University 

• Amey / Birmingham City Council – Birmingham Highways Maintenance and Management

• Transport for West Midlands 

• Yotta – with Horizons, their Strategic Asset Management product, and Alloy, their brand new connected asset management platform

• Open Data Soft, bringing the #brumdatahack datasets together into the West Midlands Data Discovery Centre
• West Midlands Fire Service
• Open Data Institute Birmingham
• West Midlands Open Data Forum – find out Midland Metro Mayor candidates views on Open Data

This was an experiment, made possible by supporters who believed in what we were trying to achieve.  That’s how we progress and make change happen.  It was a huge success.

We learnt:

• A physical space where people from different organisations who wouldn’t normally meet can collaborate together is key
• Time spent to identify and connect common areas of interest between different projects / people / organisations is crucial to success
• Provide the right tools and kit so people can work easily
• Maintain the overall focus on the bigger challenge that unites us all (the West Midlands Network Resilience strategy), rather than the competition or differences that separate us
• Support and help people connect, whatever their own experience and knowledge
• Lego (part of ProjectDISC) attracts crowds 😉

Next steps:

• Set up a permanent space where we can trial this over a longer time period, ideally in the Transport Systems Catapult / West Midlands Combined Authority Intelligent Mobility Incubator, iCentrum