Sarah GonsalvesHead of Policy and

PerformanceMilton Keynes Council

MILTON KEYNESFuture City Programme – using data for sustainable

growth

Context – A Planned New City

70,000

260,000

Where Growth Happens, Grant Thornton , Autumn 2014

The evolving economic performance of UK cities: city growth patterns 1981-2011, Foresight Future of Cities: working paper , August 2014

Economic Success

Future challenges

• 28,000 new homes • 1.5 jobs per home• Population grows to 300,000+

• Travel demand increase of 60% practical capacity

• Energy infrastructure and and water supply will not meet demand

• Challenging financial position

Requirement to reduce carbon emissions per person by 40% (2010-20)

KEY OUTPUTS

DIGITALLY ENABLED GROWTH

INTEGRATED OPEN DATA ECOSYSTEM

12,600 JOBS SAFEGUARDED

NEW BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES+ £150 pc GVA

NEW SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

CITIZEN INNOVATION

SMART CITIESINSTITUTE

THE CHALLENGES

BARRIERS TO GROWTH

ISOLATED DATA SILOS

LACK OF INNOVATION CAPABILITY

GAPS IN SKILLS &

COMPETENCES

LEVERAGING BUSINESS &

CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT

Universities

Industry

Networked

MK Innovation Network

SMEsIncubation

International partners

Citizens

MK:Smart – Project Partnership

MK Datahub

Analytics

Integration

Curation

Storage

Import

TVWS

UNB

MESH

SENSORS NETWORKSDATA HUB ANDAPPLICATIONS

Electric Bus

City Motion Map

Electric Cars

Redways & Bicycles

Rail

Autonomous Vehicles

Vehicles on Demand

City Motion Map- Information- Services

Sensor & Data Networks

Car parking

Street lighting

Low Power WideArea Network

Local Area Networks

Water metering

Neighbourhood recycling bins

Recycling collection use case

Satellite Data: Urban Planning

- Public acceptance - Standards - Clear policies and compliance with legislation - Scaling up

Future considerations