All the data you can eat… much of it sourced from the crowd

The future of transport is all about information, not specific forms of hardware (meaning cars), says ITO World CEO Peter Miller. And the information you need can best be acquired by dispensing with traditional forms of data collection and embracing the phenomenon that is crowdsourcing, he told Rik Thomas

Rik Thomas

22 March 2013

Peter Miller in conversation with Norman Baker

Although "cutting edge" in many respects, ITO?World has also carved out a niche producing traditional bus stop timetables

One of the companys strengths is the ability to graphically display data – in this case how bus routes relate to population centres

“For tomorrow's transport we will rely far less on privately-owned vehicles (notably private cars),” Peter Miller, CEO of Ipswich-based ‘data visualisation’ company ITO World says. No, in tomorrow’s 'smart cities' we will access a rich variety of shared physical devices (including buses, trains, ‘Boris bikes’ and car clubs) using information services based on detailed transport models built from both government data (which are now suddenly being...