Project Summary
The RAPIDD Digital Twin is a cutting-edge tool that allows planners to assess, prioritise, and expedite local transport decarbonisation interventions using data and science. It integrates large amounts of complex data and quantitatively models the decarbonisation impact of intervention scenarios over time. The tool also creates a metaverse-like output, enabling policy makers and the general public to engage with the data and become change agents. With comparative scenario value add and ROI dashboards, RAPIDD empowers planners to make informed investment decisions for impactful decarbonisation.
Project Achievements
The RAPIDD digital twin project enabled the solution to progress from concept to a commercially available capability embedded in Slingshot Simulations Compass: EngineTM place-based decision intelligence product. By collaborating with Goleyo (transport modelling experts) and Leeds City Council (proxy customer) the solution captures best practices and addresses an end customer defined problem with scalable applicability locally, regionally and nationally. Of significant note is that the developed capabilities contributed to the inclusion of the Compass: EngineTM product in the West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s (WYCA) successful bid for £200k funding from Defra’s 2023 Air Quality Grant scheme for local air quality monitoring . This, combined with an increasing pipeline of commercial opportunities for an SME in the north of England are contributing to the growth and levelling up of the economy. T b t s b T t h h C c c
Conclusions
The RAPIDD Digital Twin project successfully demonstrated the ability of a digital, place- based decision intelligence solution to support the faster, lower cost implementation of local transport decarbonisation policies and do so in a holistic, more equitable way in context of socio-economics and other critical initiatives such as local energy transition and housing and building regeneration. The project also highlighted the opportunity for the UK to take a global leadership position in the development and application of digital place-based decision intelligence solutions and has directly contributed to the commercial business growth and pipeline development for a high-tech software company based in the north of England. Challenges to the accelerated adoption of innovative digital solutions in a public sector context remain and the ongoing support of the Connected Places Catapult, DfT and others is critical if we are to deliver the pace of change climate change demands.
Next Steps
Continued development of the released capability is planned and this includes API based integration to “real time” air quality sensor data (required by the Defra Air Quality Grant Scheme funded project with WYCA) and with “real time” traffic sensor data. Future measures of success include commercial business pipeline development and commercial adoption of the solution, along with end user driven use cases to shape and prioritise the development roadmap and release pl an.The TRIG22 project has enabled the acceleration of the capability from concept to commercial product. Post project completion steps include the development of sales and marketing collateral and a marketing campaign based on these materials. Slingshot Simulations would like to place on record our sincere gratitude to the TRIG22 stakeholders and cohort members for this opportunity.
