Birmingham City Council open data projects
The challenge
Thanks to active participation in a number of european funded projects including Opticities, Birmingham City Council now has live traffic flow and journey time data at 5 minute intervals, as well as live car parking data within the city centre.
Birmingham City Council want to publish this data openly, but need to understand the priorities for use and application of this data, so they can plan the evolution of an open source platform and prioritise what data is published.
The opportunity
At the Data Discovery Centre at Traffex 2-4 April 2019, Birmingham City Council’s Andy Radford is showcasing some of his current prototyping projects, which are usually done in collaboration with at least 1 SME / micro SME (10 staff or less):
Check out the live DDC activities on Slack:
–sign up to the Data Discovery Centre Slack channel
1.Birmingham City Council Traffic tools prototyping site:
– http://www.bcctraffic.co.uk/
– READme file
– prototyping new data tools live throughout the 3 days
2. Exploration of API interfaces, with Streamr
– https://www.streamr.com/
3. Making live UTMC data at 5 minute intervals available openly, with Adaptor Logic
– http://butc.opendata.onl/AL_OpenData
4. Demo testing of traffic flow assessment using existing cameras, with Transpix
– https://transpix.ltd.uk/
5. 3D printing experiment to explore data sharing for the M42 J6 (NEC)
6. Birmingham City Council’s applied use of the TfWM Real Journey Time resource
–see Pod 3 Activities in the DDC stand, with TfWM showcasing the Real Journey Times project
Other resources:
- Birmingham in Real Time (BiRT)
- A view from the kerbside, Andy Radford, July 2018
- ODI Friday Lunchtime Lecture (video) – The local authority that went guerilla, Andy Radford, Birmingham City Council