Project Summary

Project REBO is a six-month feasibility trial to demonstrate and quantify the cycling near miss prevention potential of their positive road behaviour technology, as well as capture previously unrecordable data on near misses to help authorities, planners, and businesses make better decisions about cycling related projects

Project Achievements

The T-TRIG Grant was used to fund this project in three parts. 1) The research, development, and production of the physical prototype units including two different designs and numerous prototype iterations produced and tested in-house. 2) A two-month pilot in Oxford trialling six fully functioning prototype units with a cycle courier company to collect road incident data in a controlled environment. 3) A map visualisation and analysis of the incident data collected during the pilot to demonstrate this project’s data use case.

Conclusions

Pelation was able to meet several of their milestones despite COVID-related disruptions during the project with the support of T-TRIG. There has been significant progress in the development of the REBO product, invaluable user feedback and interest throughout the length of the pilot, and a takeaway case study which demonstrates potential of their trial’s incident data. Several stakeholders have shown interest in moving forward with different parts of the project, one of which includes a paid trial with the Government of Jersey starting in 2021.