Trusting our Transport

This is the second of two episodes focussing on transport and mobility within connected places. In our last episode we focussed on the technology and infrastructure, this time we consider the drivers, passengers and pedestrians: the trust we have in the technology, the perceptions towards privacy and security which matter when it comes to transport, and the accountability we expect of those delivering local transport solutions. We enjoyed a very lively chat between two experts who each have multiple perspectives on this topic:

Tom Forth is the CTO and co-founder of The Data City and is Head of Data at Open Innovations where they are a part of a team producing civic technology used by hundreds of thousands of Britons every day to do things like check where their bus is and when their bins will be collected. You can find Tom’s sharp observations on public data and transport infrastructure on Twitter and LinkedIn.Dr Richard Gomer is Lecturer in Computer Science, working in the Web, AI and Society research group. They work in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research, with a particular interest in how individuals and groups interact with large-scale systems, how those systems are designed, and how things like values and agency play out within them. Richard is PI of PETRAS project UMIS which investigates mechanisms for increasing user trust in Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) in an IoT ecosystem for the next-generation transportation-systems. Richard also represents West End North as a councillor on Eastleigh Borough Council and brings this perspective into the conversation. You can find Richard on Twitter and LinkedIn 

As ever, thank you to Professor Alan Chamberlain for gifting his AI generated music which we have used throughout this series.