Smart Mobility Challenge

What was the Smart Mobility Challenge?

We worked with the Mayor of London to design and deliver the Mayor’s Resilience Fund which included two phases:

• Open call for local authorities, government agencies and charities in London to partner with us as problem-holders (2020)
• Designed and delivered 10 city-based challenges (2021)

The Mayor’s Resilience Fund was funded by the London Economic Action Partnership. The Smart Mobility Challenge was delivered in partnership with Better Bankside and King’s College London.

What was this challenge about?

Create a tool which helps organisations reduce the number of air polluting journeys their vehicle fleets make whilst transporting goods in urban areas. The tool should enable organisations to easily input their data, and suggest efficiency improvements tailored to them based on this.

Where was it focused?

The test partner’s (King’s College London) five campuses that are located in London’s Travel Zones 1-3, eventually scaling the solution to the whole of London.

Who were the end users?

Organisations that operate a fleet of vehicles and would like to better understand how they can move goods more efficiently.

What impact were we seeking?

• The overall impact would be cleaner air in and around central London. King’s College London and other organisations would be better informed as to how to make operations more efficient, saving money and reducing people’s exposure to air pollution.
• The short-term impact may include ‘re-moding’ (transition to cleaner modes of transport), re-timing of deliveries (reducing journeys made when most people are occupying the public realm) or reducing the number of polluting delivery vehicles (consolidating deliveries).
• Long-term impacts include investment into cleaner fleets and/or reduction in fleet size, the movement of goods made more resilient and reliable as data expands.
• Long-term impact also includes scalability of the solution across other fleet operators and locations