Thus, these roads form a crucial support for economic productivity of the country.
Previously, data collection was arduous, time-consuming and expensive. Now, LUCA has been working closely with Highways England to use mobile data to gather more accurate, faster and cheaper data.
Through a public tender with a allocated budget (and a voluntary negotiated compensation) that Telefónica won, Highways England got 24/7 access to mobility insights based on a specific full year of data. Updating the year requires a contract extension.
Highways England has access to anonymised data from the 4 billion network events created every day by O2 customers. This data yields valuable insights for their modelling and infrastructure planning. Thanks to this collaboration, Highways England was able to improve their efficiency and collect better data through using LUCA Transit. This product reduced the data-collection time period from 6 months to 7 days, a massive savings in labour hours. This resulted in a saving of millions of pounds each year on data-collection costs.
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