1. Marius Jennings | Open Data Project Manager
3rd October 2018

2. Housekeeping
Refreshments
Wifi
Toilets
In case of a fire

3. Agenda

4. Background
Bristol City Council’s (BCC) Smart City strategy was introduced focusing on 3 core dimensions:
Smart Data
Smart Energy
Smart Transport
This trilogy has consistently enabled Bristol to punch above its weight in the Smart City arena to gain local and international funding and prominence. Leading to it becoming UK’s leading “smart city” according to the second UK Smart Cities Index, commissioned by Huawei UK.
Smart Data plays a particular exciting role as the Open Data Barometer, a composite index developed by the World Wide Web Foundation, found that the UK ranks 1st out of 92 nations in terms of readiness for open data initiatives, their implementation and their impact on business, politics and civil society.

5. Why open data?
Improve the city’s democratic dialogue and deepening the relationship with citizens.
Increased transparency and accountability.
Identifying new datasets and having the ability to combine these to uncover new insights into the city and a renewed sense of understanding.
Unlocking potential value which can empower the local digital economy and fuel new enterprise.
Enabling innovative data-driven products towards more efficient models of service delivery.
Helping citizens access the information needed to build evidence based cases for change.

6. Why open data? (continued)

7. Our platforms Focused on transport data sets
SCOOT travel data to be made available
Bus stops, railways stations, ferry docks, cycle docks, car parks and electric vehicle charging points
Timetable information for transit routes
Real-time information for transit routes
Basic journey planner engine
Disruptions information
Currently over 180 published data sets across 14 different themes
A range of updates due including new population data / ward data and Bristol Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) 2018 updates
Look and feel of platform is being refreshed
Data dashboards include election data and Quality of Life. Air Quality to be added by end of 2018
API automation is available to both data publishers and users

8. Our Data Bristol – Where we are at
Oct 2018 – Look and feel of Open Data Bristol platform refreshed Provide user documentation on Open Data Bristol platform Review Transport SCOOT data to determine future release date Nov 2018 – BBC Digital Week Hackathon BCC Digital Week Pitching Session & Commissioning Dec 2018 – Complete existing data set cleansing Early 2019 – Make Open Data Bristol platform available to external data publishers

10. Transport and Connectivity
The BCC’s Transport department see key benefits in opening our up transport data, including:
Greater general transparency regarding the transport network.
Improved ability to provide narrative to transport policies and interventions.
Facilitate increased innovation within the wider transport sector: e.g. third party apps and services.
Reduce costs in processing data, such as sharing data between authorities, responding to FOI requests
All the above will support key transport policy objectives such as: Improved transport network efficiency; Improved air quality and reduced emissions and Improved user experience.

11. Transport and Connectivity (continued)
BCC’s Transport department are working towards opening up more transport data, however key barriers include:
Concerns around data privacy and GDPR compliance.
Difficulty accessing data stored or maintained by third parties.
Lack of national standardisation and consistency in key transport datasets.
Lack of evidence and case studies on the value of open transport data, making it difficult to justify the resources needed to do so.

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