The Scottish Government has published a new plan to increase everyday cycling across the country - a project which UrbanTide will be supporting through our uMove platform.

The Scottish Government's new Cycling Framework for Active Travel supports the 2030 Active Travel Vision - which aims to make walking, wheeling and cycling the most popular mode of transport for shorter everyday journeys. 

At UrbanTide, we're proud to support this initiative through our uMove data platform. 

Challenge for Supporting Active Travel 

Cycling Scotland manages an extensive network of automatic cycle counters that enable them to track cycling activity and modal share throughout Scotland. The cycle data they collect informs how they support active travel across the country to promote a more sustainable Scotland. But before working with UrbanTide, Cycling Scotland only had access to its own cycle data.

Cycling Scotland Objective 

Cycling Scotland wanted to see travel data from other organisations to gain a broader, more accurate and holistic real-time view of active travel in Scotland. 

Solution

In partnership with Cycling Scotland, UrbanTide has built the Active Travel Open Data platform: a collaborative data source for all national cycling data in one place. 

We worked with local authorities and their transport partners to integrate and standardise their transport-monitoring data and provide it as a single source. This data is now readily available as open and shared data through the platform, with access to bespoke real-time data visualisations to inform wider strategy of the Active Travel Agenda across Scotland.

UrbanTide was formed in 2014 from the team that bid, planned and delivered Innovate UK’s £24m future cities demonstrator for Glasgow back in 2012.  Since then it has been working with various authorities across UK and Ireland in opening up data both for internal realisation and external publication.

Get in touch today to see how UrbanTide can support unlocking your digital infrastructure and data!