Swansea selects Cityspace iPlus for regeneration pilot
17 July 2006
London, 17 July 2006 Cityspace, the UK's leading provider of urban digital networks, today announces its agreement with Swansea Council to pilot an iPlus Point as part of the council's City Centre Core Retail Area regeneration scheme, unveiled last week.
Underpinning Swansea Council's drive to improve perceptions to visitors and improve the living and working environment for its residents, iPlus Points are easy to use, touch screen interactive terminals providing useful information and services on the street. The pilot iPlus will give users access to council services and tourism, health, emergency and leisure information as well as free email, BBC News and Sport, mapping and print outs.
Critically, a regional journey planner will prove extremely helpful to passengers between the recently revamped High Street rail station and the City's Quadrant bus station some distance way, which itself is due for refurbishment next year.
Commenting on the iPlus pilot, Gareth Hughes, Urban Regeneration Coordinator, Swansea Council says: Swansea City Centre is a vibrant, bustling population hub for residents, workers and visitors and in all cases this audience will find having free, helpful information on the street to be of value, we expect the pilot to succeed in helping us to deliver a dynamic place to live, work, shop and visit.
The Swansea Council has secured £3.5 million towards City Centre Core Retail Area regeneration works funded from the Welsh Assembly Government's Local Regeneration Fund and European Objective One grant.
The pilot iPlus Point is planned to be in the ground at the central town junction of Whitewalls and Oxford Street by the autumn, with a view to creating a wider network within the City Centre in 2007.
We are delighted to be a part of this exciting regeneration scheme and agree that iPlus complements the wider goals of the Swansea City Centre project, comments Tim Halford, Business Development Manager at Cityspace.
On-street, accessible information and travel planning is not only helpful for urban regeneration; it also helps to get people out of their cars and onto public transport. We look forward to reporting on a successful pilot and to developing a real information infrastructure in Swansea City Centre next year.
The iPlus Point will also feature a wireless broadband antennae providing access to the internet, free of charge, through any wireless-enabled device within a 300 metre radius.
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About Cityspace
Cityspace is a UK-based technology company, which has been providing urban digital networks in partnership with local authorities since 1996. It is the market leader in designing and delivering local information and digital services to public spaces through its three divisions; Cityspace Interactive Media, Cityspace Transport and Cityspace Wireless, which each offer pioneering product and service portfolios in their respective markets.
Cityspace Interactive Media's flagship products, iPlus Points, offer free-to-use, compelling content via a touch screen at almost 400 locations across the UK. Useful services include free email (Freemail), BBC News and web search to complement each local authority's digital information services.
In 2004 Cityspace Transport launched a 'world first' digital transport network for Portsmouth City Council, in collaboration with several technology and bus operator partners. Further major projects followed, including the pioneering Kent Fastrack initiative and a collaboration with First Group in York City in 2006.
Cityspace Wireless designs and delivers outdoor wireless broadband networks for mobility, fixed infrastructure and resale. Specialising in wide-area 'hotzones' this year the division implemented the UK's largest such hotzone on behalf of Islington Council, stretching along 4km of the borough's main thoroughfare, from Upper Street to Holloway Road.
Cityspace has developed urban digital networks for over 50 UK local authorities and international implementations include Moscow, Sweden and Brussels. Visit the Cityspace website for further information, testimonials and press reviews.
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