HomeRun Insights

Community Energy and Data: Transforming Travel in Market Harborough A Groundbreaking Initiative! In Market Harborough, a volunteer group, six primary schools, and nearly 2,000 families demonstrated the power of community energy combined with insightful data. This collaboration has shown what is possible when people come together for a common cause. Working with Active Travel Revolution , we introduced HomeRun STEP to the town. This initiative aimed to analyse every school jo

HomeRun teamed up with Essex County Council to build HomeRun STEP — the UK’s first AI-powered platform that maps every pupil-journey to school. In just weeks, STEP modelled ~210,000 journeys across 520+ schools, creating a county-wide baseline and enabling the council to identify where sustainable transport interventions (walking, cycling, public transport) could achieve the biggest impact. STEP transforms a previously data-starved, guesswork-driven process into one powered

Reducing School Run Congestion in Essex Using AI Data. Essex County Council's Innovative Approach. Our Essex pilot, using AI data to help reduce school run congestion, has been featured in four publications. This initiative is a significant step towards smarter travel solutions for families in the region. The first feature was published by Greatest Hits Radio . It highlights how Essex County Council is harnessing AI data to reduce school run congestion across the county. The

HomeRun STEP, a ground-breaking AI-powered school travel analysis platform developed in partnership with Essex County Council and funded by the Department for Transport through Innovate UK, the game may be about to change.

Delighted to announce the launch of our brand new, game changing platform, HomeRun STEP - the UK’s first machine learning intelligence platform with the capability to accurately model every single school journey across the UK, and show where to intervene for maximum sustainable travel impact.

As part of our submission, we included the things that most transport professionals already know needs to be delivered, such as integrated ticketing systems, flexible longer-term funding for local transport authorities, separate rural transport policies… and taking the school run seriously