A Liverpool tech company is听celebrating dual success after winning government funding for its听transport hub prediction tool and听being voted one of Liverpool City Region鈥檚 Tech Climbers 2021.听
CGA Simulation鈥檚 digital 3D technology,听Mobility Mapper, visualises how future transports and city hubs will interact and听predicts where new transport infrastructure may be needed.听
The tool also simulates ‘what-if’ scenarios for transport planners – how infrastructure like V2X, Connected & Autonomous Vehicles and cargo bikes will interact with each other, and people.听
鈥淒uring lockdown 2, CGA attended a week-long future transport conference in Los Angeles (with the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles),鈥� said project听lead Max Zadow.听
鈥淚t wasn鈥檛 in sunny LA, as expected, the event was online 鈥� so we didn鈥檛 know whether it would be as effective as our听usual face-to-face networking.听
鈥淚n fact, the conference was听brilliant听and we gained great insights into the world of transport-tech developers and planners in the UK and US.听听
鈥淚t got us thinking, with so much transport change ahead how could UK cities capitalise on this insight by creating intelligently designed transport hubs and green solutions? Mobility Mapper was born.鈥澨�听
After the conference, CGA picked the brains of both Transport for Greater Manchester and Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, both of whom agreed to partner with the company in the bid, which it won.听听
Interviews with transport experts, architectural transport planners and digital future-scape consultants during a design sprint enabled CGA to develop a prototype.听听
Mobility Mapper harnesses CGAs 鈥榓gent based鈥� modelling approach, previously used by the team to mathematically model autonomous vehicle tech safety, smart city networks, Liverpool 5G听颁谤别补迟别鈥檚听health and social care network, and even the spread of COVID-19.听听
The firm says Mobility Mapper is an interoperable tool that can be accessed by people with different technical capabilities.听听
Agent-based modelling assumes each thing (car, human, bicycle) operates independently, creating randomising scenarios, whilst the 3D simulation (developed with CGA鈥檚 gaming expertise) creates an immersive visualisation of the predictions.听听