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City, University of London has embarked on a knowledge transfer partnership with smart bike-sharing company Beryl.
The partnership, led by senior lecturer Dr Andrea Baronchelli (Department of Mathematics) together with Dr Chris Child (senior lecturer, Department of Computer Science) and associate Dr Soumya Dasgupta, is supported by a £287,000 grant from Innovate UK.
The collaboration will see City scholars gather and analyse data on bike usage within an urban context, leading to more improved outcomes for the design of sustainable cities.
Baronchelli is pleased to be collaborating with Beryl. He said the partnership “will give City academics a wonderful opportunity to investigate smart bike share schemes with a world-leading industrial partner, and, more broadly, advance our understanding of urban mobility through the analysis of an unprecedented wealth of data.”
Beryl co-founder Phil Ellis added: “Beryl is very pleased to be working with City, University of London, with funding support from Innovate UK. We have developed leading products and technology and have an experienced bike share operations team.
“Our project will help us build technology solutions that allow us to dynamically predict and improve our operations, getting the right number of bikes to the right places. We are very fortunate to have recruited Dr Soumya Dasgupta to this project, a leading data scientist in the field of urban mobility.”
