Anna Watt | Transport Research Lead
Transport for West Midlands

Anna Watt is the Transport Research Lead at Transport for West Midlands, part of the West Midlands Combined Authority. Anna leads a team of performance analysts, researchers, modellers and GIS analysts to provide insight into the transport network, from well curated, managed and engineered data. From understanding how many people are using our ticketing system, how busy our highways are, with what users, to ingesting 10 million sensor based records a day, the team deploy an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud hosted serverless environment, cost engineered to be supportable on public sector finances. The team are looking ahead to deploying new technologies to improve and speed up our ability to run strategic transport models to advance our digital twin strategy through to removing manual handling of performance reporting data.

Appearances:

Day 1 - 15th October @ 15:10

Data-driven transport: Scaling capability, governance and innovation across public networks

Hear how Transport for West Midlands is embedding robust data management principles, advancing its tech stack and exploring the role of AI to support smarter, more connected transport systems. This session will also share lessons from scaling its in-house Data Insight team and pioneering digital twin work to futureproof local mobility planning

Anna Watt, Transport Research Lead, Transport for West Midlands