I'm interested in public transport in cities, especially in Leeds where I live. From excellent resources like LSE cities and their podcasts I've learned that cities thrive when people can meet easily and share ideas and that the best way to achieve that is through high density housing connected by good public transport; we've known this for decades. It's no surprise that the cities with the best public transport in Europe are also the wealthiest and most innovative. Similarly, it's no surprise that UK cities without good public transport - all of them outside of London - are significantly poorer than their equivalents in similar countries.

There are lots of reasons why public transport is poor and getting worse in Leeds but the one I can most easily address is a lack of information. Bus stops in Leeds don't tell you where the buses you could catch go and few tell you when buses are due but we don't just have to complain about this. Thanks to the UK government's push towards open data we can fix it; this is my first attempt. It's far from perfect but I hope it gives an idea of what's possible.

I've been working on a lot of these ideas for a long time but it was The Economist's Innocentive challenge that gave me the push to make this happen and present it nicely. If what I have done is of some interest to you please contact me and I will try to move from this very rough prototype to a full system. I've figured out what most of the big problems are and solved most of them so it shouldn't take long to build something really good.