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Research-led Innovation on Rural Travel

Posted in Maas, Projects, Rural, Transport; Tagged MERGeS, Transport, Study, Project; Posted 10 months ago by Andrew Callard

Rural Techs believes in evidence-based decisions and working truly collaboratively with others. These two aims underpinned the MERGeS project funded by the UK’s Geospatial Commission.

Get on Board, Why Public Transport Matters for Rural People & Places

Posted in Maas, Projects, Rural, Transport; Tagged MERGeS, Transport, bus; Posted 10 months ago by Andrew Callard

In our MERGeS project funded by the Geospatial Commission through Innovate UK’s SBRI funding, Rural Techs was fortunate to have as a partner the Gloucestershire’s Countryside and Community Research Institute…

Perceptions Key for Rural Public Transport

Posted in Rural, Transport, Maas; Tagged bus, Smart, Transport; Posted 11 months ago by Andrew Callard

That everyone knows everything there is to know about public transport is a completely false perception.

Cars Rule Rural Transport

Posted in Maas, Rural, Transport; Tagged MERGeS, Transport, Work, Project; Posted 11 months ago by Andrew Callard

In a net-zero carbon world, a fundamental challenge for the rural economy will be transport. This affects how society works, lives, plays, studies and ages.

Avoiding Transport's 2-Tier Society

Posted in Maas, Rural, Transport; Tagged Transport, Economy, Sustainability; Posted 12 months ago by Andrew Callard

Any way you look at it, rural transport is a mess. It’s simply unsustainable in its current form, environmentally, economically or socially. Transport in the countryside means car.

Bus Back Better, a Rural Analysis

Posted in Transport, Rural, Maas; Tagged Transport, Sustainability, Smart, bus; Posted 12 months ago by Andrew Callard

In March, the Department for Transport issued Bus Back Better.

Time Flies When Projects Start

Posted in Maas, Rural; Tagged MERGeS, Work, Project; Posted 16 months ago by Andrew Callard

Our MERGeS project manager has told us that today is a scary day.

We Won !

Posted in Maas, Rural, Transport; Tagged Economy, Work, Leisure, Study, Smart; Posted 17 months ago by Default Admin

Yesterday, the Geospatial Commission in partnership with Innovate UK announced their 28 winners of the £2M transport location data competition.

Introduction to Mobility as a Service

Posted in Maas, Transport; Tagged Work; Posted 17 months ago by Admin

Travel is an essential component of modern life. Jumping on a jet to go on package holiday became commonplace in the same century that powered flight had first been achieved. Mass public forms of transport in the developed world started to give way to individual private car ownership, where the only restrictions were uncongested roads to run on and petrol in the tank. In a more environmentally aware world with the communication and digital capacity to serve the needs, transport is changing away from individual ownership models to ones based on usage. Mobility as a Service (MaaS) underpins some of these developments.