Project Summary

LMFHub is designed for town and city transport planners, to facilitate their need to build infrastructure that will meet decades of rapid change. This is ambitious and a prototype will be trialled by Transport for Greater Manchester during the project.

Project Achievements

Activities Building a mock-up to show to end users in industry and local government to refine a prototype digital tool which includes: • A site optimizer that uses a combination of statistical and agent-based modelling • A comparative tool for different areas of a digital environment • A back-and-forth iterative process between human and machine testing out different options with statistical results to compare the options • Spider heat graph showing journey times out of a potential site

Conclusions

• Industry, local government and transport authorities confirm such a tool is needed and not currently available • CGA has been able to build an appropriate tool on an existing platform with TRIG funding • The only equivalent tool identified is an early protype within a very large logistics company • Cargo Bikes and new modes of delivery are cheaper and more efficient • LMFHub is the right tool to plan now for the future of logistics

Next Steps

To take LMFHub to market CGA needs to: • Refine the protype based on feedback on this round of user trials • Make it available as a Beta test product for potential users on a national and global scale • Identify first customers and work with them on a number of ground-breaking implementations of LMFHub • Build a marketing team for the product To do this CGA Simulation needs to source funding, include exploring Private Investment.