Software as a Service (SaaS) provider Urban SDK's platform is to assist the North Florida Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) with transportation planning and understanding the performance measures set forth by the government.
Urban SDK provides planning organisations and Departments of Transportation across the US with real-time data captured by regional traffic cameras in one dashboard.
The dashboard allows planners to evaluate data and use the platform's predictive analytics to make transportation planning decisions and assess and report performance metrics to the public.
Jeff Sheffield, executive director of the North Florida TPO, says: "Our goal is to continue bringing the concept of a smart city from dream to reality right here in North Florida, but you can’t build smart cities with paper and spreadsheets. Urban SDK’s technology is modernising the planning sector in a way that helps us ultimately maintain citizen safety and decrease cost and commute times across our transportation system.”
“Urban SDK’s platform is allowing us to better understand our performance measures, establish clear priorities and make data-driven decisions,” Sheffield adds.
Urban SDK says its platform can integrate the data and reporting needs of planning and transportation agencies and share it with clients to provide dynamic data and reporting features.
The platform also gives insight into how agencies throughout the US are reporting data to its constituents, the company adds.
Urban SDK CEO Drew Messer says: "We know each planning organisation has specific needs, and our team is prepared to work with our clients to build additional widgets and products to improve and streamline dynamic data reporting. The public sector is trying to adjust to operating like the private sector, and, as a SaaS company dedicated to innovation, we can work together organically as we figure out how to best modernise government entities."
According to Urban SDK, the platform allows government agencies to shift more funding toward planning studies, which allows planners to gather more resources required to create cities that best serve the current needs of its residents.
