Ideas in Transit

From IdeasInTransit

The Ideas in Transit Innovation portal gives details of many of the best user-led innovations coming to the transport sector; over 180 of them at the last count. All of them use powerful accessible information processing and communication tools and are likely to affect how we travel and how we understand space in the future and will be useful to policy makes, innovators and academics alike.

Ideas in Transit, is a unique five-year collaboration between Government, Commercial and Academic partners and will influence intelligent transport decisions at policy, social, personal and commercial levels. To stay up to date subscribe to our Blog and check the Events page.

What's new

February 2010: With the new year Ideas in Transit has started to undergo a bit of a new year's clean, the categories have been changed for easier browsing of the innovations; expect more changes for ease of use to follow in the weeks to come. For details of new innovations and developments check out Recent changes.

Featured Innovation

CycleStreets is a cycle journey planner using OpenCycleMap map rendering and Open Layers to allow users to plan cycle routes anywhere in the UK where there is good OpenStreetMap data. Users can select either the fastest, quietest or shortest routes and can export plans as KML. Photographs can be uploaded to the site which can be used to show good practice, defects, obstacles and obstructions.

See Featured Innovations and Featured innovation proposals.

Innovations

We have documented a wide range of innovations. Here are some popular categories and examples of innovations:

• Full A-Z Listing of innovations The full list of 150+ innovations
• Full list of categories Browse the innovations by type
• Advocacy such as PARK(ing) and MyBikelane
• Cycling Including OpenCycleMap and Camden Cycling Campaign maps
• Events Such as A Greener Festival
• Mapping Such as OpenStreetMap and Geonames
• Driving Including RegionalTraffic and Park at my house
• Tourism including Wikitravel Press and Loco2
• Walking including Wandermap.net and ClearThatTrail

Request an article

If you have found an innovation that you believe should be included in the Ideas in Transit wiki but dont have the time to create an article for it yourself then you can easily add a link on the Requested articles page.

Other related wikis

Here are some of the other wikis we have identified that are also collecting information about projects about user-led transport innovation. It is our intention to work more closely with these projects over time and avoid duplication.

• Headway wiki An index of transit agencies and the third-party websites that provide information about them