Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) - Vehicle Capacity Information for Public Transport Passengers

Tender description

A Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) challenge is being launched by the National Transport Authority in partnership with Enterprise Ireland to find innovative new products and services. The projects will be selected primarily on their potential to impact Irish citizens and deliver a solution to identified unmet needs in the public services. The competition is open to single companies or organisations from the private, public and third sectors, including charities. The successful solution to this challenge will allow all passengers to be informed in real time on the availability of passenger seating/space on bus and coach vehicles to meet the potential need for wheelchair accessible space and seating. The successful solution to this challenge will enable data capture for analytics in relation to bus and network capacity utilisation for public transport network planning and any other relevant data to assist in improving the passenger experience. The innovative solution to address this challenge needs to be economically viable, allow two way communication between the passenger and the Authority, provide information in real time accessible formats, reliable & accurate, scalable, easily maintained, user friendly, and have the ability to interact with existing NTA back end systems and support them effectively. Proposed solutions will need to consider and be compliant with relevant Data Protection Legislation and GDPR.