Alan Turing Institute to Collaborate with Active Travel England

The Alan Turing Institute (‘the Institute’) is to collaborate with Active Travel England (ATE).

The Institute has been commissioned to create new software and data science techniques to support the delivery of walking, wheeling and cycling schemes by local authorities.

The collaboration with cost £200,000 and last for two years.

The Institute will help develop new functionality in the Active Travel Infrastructure Platform, to help councils map out proposed schemes and see the impact they would have locally.

The new tools will be added to existing data sources such as OpenStreetMap.

The objective is to build schemes based on strong evidence, and that will deliver benefits for most residents. In turn, this should help meet the national target for 50% of urban trips to be walked or cycled by 2030.

ATE’s Head of Data Dr Robin Lovelace has been working on the project with Institute developer Dustin Carlino.

ATE CEO Danny Williams said:

‘This exciting new collaboration will help to accelerate progress towards our vision of making walking, wheeling and cycling the natural choice for short trips nationwide. The Active Travel Infrastructure Platform is going to save councils time, improve local decision-making, and enable evidence-based decisions to be made that will have maximum impact.’

ate ceo danny williams

The Institute’s Chief Scientist Professor Mark Girolami said:

‘We are excited to be partnering with Active Travel England to develop new data science tools and software that will support the shared mission to make active travel more accessible and enjoyable for everyone.’

the institute’s professor mark girolami