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

“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...

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