Logica to develop innovative solutions for people to better manage their journeys

29 March 2010


Secures Technology Strategy Board ‘Informed Personal Travel’ competition grant funding

Logica, a leading business and technology service company, has today announced that it has secured grant funding from the Technology Strategy Board as part of its ‘Informed Personal Travel’ competition. The Technology Strategy Board is a business-focused organisation dedicated to promoting technology-enabled innovation across the UK.  The Board has for the competition allocated an indicative amount of £8 million for an intervention aimed at providing innovative, reliable, real-time, accurate, and credible information for people to manage their journeys.

Over the coming 18 months Logica, along with its real-time passenger information consortium partner ACIS will jointly design, develop and demonstrate an 'Empowered Personal Travel' service platform that will deliver a multi-modal, personalised, context-aware online 'virtual travel assistant' service for travellers, both before and throughout their journey.

Working in close partnership with the consortiums ‘client’, Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE), the solution will focus on information that the traveller can easily understand, trust and want to continue to use, and in doing so accelerate development of the concept for multi-modal real-time journey information service provision.

The service itself will feature a number of major innovations in personal journey management including real-time service updates and the opportunity to re-plan where connections are likely to be missed as a result of service disruption.

This will be enhanced by a location-based service incorporating the use of technology that will automatically notify the traveller of approaching stops at which they need to alight. 

The overall 'Empowered Personal Travel' service platform will be made available via a simple web registration as part of Logica’s ‘Navici’ journey planner that will be configured for use in Greater Manchester. Subsequent journey management will then be delivered via a ‘lite touch’ mobile application, downloadable at initial registration stage, and developed on the android operating platform.

“At Logica we are committed to developing innovative solutions that improve the ways in which people travel,” said Harbinder Dhaliwal, Managing Director transport and commercial, “By delivering seamless integrated information in real-time, we believe users can be empowered to make better decisions about their journey plans and respond more intelligently to unexpected disruptions, should they occur. We are delighted to receive this investment by the TSB and look forward to piloting our solution in Manchester.”

To know more about the ‘Informed Personal Travel’ competition, please click here

NOTES TO EDITORS
About Logica
Logica is a business and technology service company, employing 39,000 people. It provides business consulting, systems integration and outsourcing to clients around the world, including many of Europe's largest businesses. Logica creates value for clients by successfully integrating people, business and technology. It is committed to long term collaboration, applying insight to create innovative answers to clients’ business needs.  Logica is listed on both the London Stock Exchange and Euronext (Amsterdam) (LSE: LOG; Euronext: LOG).More information is available at www.logica.com.

Logica in Transport

Logica is a leading services provider across the Transport industry developing, implementing and running Intelligent Transport Systems for Governments, Transport Authorities, Transport Operators, Infrastructure Managers and Construction and Engineering companies.

About ACIS

ACIS is a market leader in the Real Time Passenger Information space, providing location based intelligence that informs the communities in which it operates, drives efficiencies into transport operators and ensures the travelling passenger has access to information instantaneously allowing timely response to changing events within the public transport arena.

About GMPTE

(Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive) implements the policies of Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Authority. The Authority is responsible for overseeing the provision of public transport in the county and is made up of 33 councillors from the ten councils in Greater Manchester. GMPTE:

  • Pays for bus services which are not provided commercially by bus operators.
  • Owns bus stations, shelters and stops in Greater Manchester and works to ensure all the information you'll see there is correct.
  • Subsidises concessionary fares and free travel facilities on buses throughout the region, including paying to keep non-profitable services running where you need them most.
  • Carries out the policies of Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Authority to ensure that local rail services meet local travel needs.
  • Owns the innovative and successful Metrolink system which carries over 19 million passengers a year.
  • Actively campaigns to promote public transport in Greater Manchester, to improve the environment and cut congestion.

About the Technology Strategy Board

The Technology Strategy Board is an executive non-departmental public body (NDPB), established by the Government in 2007 and sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). The activities of the Technology Strategy Board are jointly supported and funded by BIS and other government departments, the devolved administrations, regional development agencies and research councils.

Press contacts

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Nadia Nandi – UK PR Manager, Logica
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