Big Data and open data systems house the potential to help us more effectively manage our urban transportation systems, however, transportation professionals can be overwhelmed by the sheer volume and complexity of real-time technology and other data systems.

Advanced location-based analytics – when applied to Big Data – can deliver context and reveal insights in transportation patterns, allowing professionals to better plan and manage our transportation systems. This session will discuss how transportation agencies can leverage the power of location intelligence to increase mobility and create more liveable and sustainable smart cities of the future.

Cities are engines of innovation, prosperity and economic growth. Over the next 15 years, 65% of the global population will be living in cities. Learn how cities can monitor and integrate conditions of its critical infrastructures and better optimize its resources, plan its preventive maintenance activities, and monitor security aspects while maximizing services to its citizens

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Join Microsoft, MasterCard, Cubic along with the NSW Dept. of Transport to hear how cloud computing, big data and real-time analytics are transforming urban transport in dramatic ways by giving cities the power to:

• gather all transport system information in one place
• map transport data with economic activity to better serve citizens
• draw on external data and passenger experiences

As a result, progressive cities around the globe are using this new technology to create dynamic, efficient and rider-friendly public transport systems.

Two of the biggest questions transport leaders face are:

• How do we get more people out of private cars and on to public transport?
• How can we empower commuters to make better transport decisions and influence their choices through the use of intelligent analytics and data. In this 90 minute presentation and interactive panel discussion you'll hear from the people behind the success stories and learn:
  • how transport organisations from around the world are using traffic management systems, including analytics, predictive maintenance and on time arrival applications for rail, road and transport.
  • how Microsoft, Cubic and MasterCard along with global transport organisations are succeeding with connected sensor, cloud and real-time analytics capabilities.

• Cooperative ITS
• Mobility as a Service
• Big Data
• International Standards Harmonisation Efforts

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The benefits of mobile & open loop public transport fare collection models

Public transit fare collection in urban areas remains relatively fragmented with an array of cash, paper tickets and transit smart cards used across different towns and cities. For the world’s increasingly connected citizens the public transport environment is full of friction – friction that mobile and digital technology has removed from other aspects of their daily lives. For cities promoting positive environments for employment, business, housing and tourism outdated public transport infrastructure is letting them down and costing them money. Increasingly, transit authorities and cities around the globe are looking towards mobile and digital technologies in order to make public transport services quicker and more efficient.

Mobile and contactless payments have transformed the retail environment, natural progression is for the technology to now tackle public transport fare collection. With cities like London, New York and Chicago reaping the benefits of smart ticketing systems and numerous other cities following suit the session will explore how digital technologies and contactless pay-per-ride and mobile pre-purchase fare collection models can benefit cities.

By any measure, the past few years have been landmark years for the discussion around artificial intelligence and its potential impact on business and society. Be part of the conversation as we explore a fascinating and diverse set of issues related to the powerful cognitive technologies that are emerging to augment human capacity and understanding how these relate to our Transport ecosystem.

During this session you will learn about IBM Watson and how it’s Cognitive capabilities are already changing Urban Mobility.

Wayne Harvey, Manager ITS Infrastructure & Systems, VicRoads, Australia
Martin Russ, AustriaTech, Austria
Risto Kulmala, Finnish Transport Agency, Finland
Dr. Johanna Tzanidaki, TomTom, The Netherlands
Dan Kelly, Intelematics, Australia
Joanna Robinson, Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads, Australia

Quality traffic information increases the safety of road users, as improves the efficiency of their travel. Providing appropriate traffic information to road users increasingly is seen as valuable to support the traffic management objectives of road authorities.

Quality improvement requires that the traffic environment needs to become more homogeneous in order to accommodate consistent provision of high quality traffic information, including a closer interaction of traffic management and road users. At current, transport infrastructure and traffic management is very heterogeneous across countries and regions in terms of quality and availability of systems and services such as .e.g. incident management, traffic information, road works, etc., content and data standards for Traffic Information and Traffic Management data and Plans, and iv) processes, e.g. governance and operations, and quality assurance.

In this associated event, public and private stakeholders from around the globe are brought together to discuss the needs and proper pathways for improving the quality of traffic information, with resultant needs for stakeholder harmonization and collaboration. In this event, quality improvement initiatives and successes are presented, and further harmonization needs discussed. The aims are to exchange best practices, and to foster increased collaboration and harmonization between the stakeholders in the traffic information value chain.

This associated event is targeted at public and private stakeholders operating in the traffic information value chain with in an interest in improving quality of traffic information and collaboration between actors in the traffic information value chain.

Xavier Vegedes, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany
Marcus Burke, National Transport Commission, Australia
Samantha Buckis, Transport Accident Commission, Australia
Lilanthi Balasingham, Parsons Brinkerhoff, Australia

Sendur Kathir, Public Transport Victoria, Australia
Richard Bennell, Public Transport Victoria, Australia
Kate Gray, Public Transport Victoria, Australia

Charging Infrastructure company, ChargePoint, will share key trends, experiences, and implications in EV charging dynamics from a number of Australian sectors including:

• Municipal Government Fleet owners
• Retail property operators
• Energy Networks

As the Transport and Energy sectors continue to converge, ICT and ITS (themselves evolving) will play an ever more critical role.