Podaris

Real-time collaborative urban infrastructure planning

Infrastructure projects are becoming ever-more sophisticated, requiring the integration of more and more technologies and disciplines. At the same time, they are also becoming more democratic, with the input of increasingly diverse stakeholder groups. These should be positive trends, but tools and techniques for planning, design, and project management have not kept pace. As a result, they are increasingly unable to deal with the complexity of modern infrastructure projects, resulting in large-scale cost overruns and delays. Podaris solves this problem. It is a platform for realtime interdisciplinary planning and design of infrastructure projects, putting collaboration and transparency front and centre. Using the power of modern cloud-collaboration techniques, Podaris will enable infrastructure planning to be a far more agile process, reducing the communications gaps between disciplines from months to milliseconds. Podaris participated in StartupBootCamp's Smart Transport & Energy accelerator in August 2015, and launched its first tool -- a web-based transport planning application -- in November 2105.