Accelogress Ltd has developed a unique solution for operators to enable them to deliver hassle free parking for their customers by smartly navigating drivers to the best available parking based on user preferences and introducing pre-bookable spaces as a Software-as-a-Service solution – Save-a-Space! Accelogress is working in collaboration with partners in the UK on trialing the solution developed as part of the frontierCities startup accelerator programme and Innovate UK funding.

Our Accelogress journey started in 2012. After a year of consultancy work delivered to local businesses by our founder Ralf Kernchen, we received funding to analyse the transport and parking market and its opportunities. Research shows that it takes drivers about 20mins to find available parking, a major contributing factor to traffic and pollution. We also conducted focus groups and surveys with more than 360 drivers in the UK and learned that around 40% of participants would be prepared to pay extra for...
Accelogress Ltd has developed a unique solution for operators to enable them to deliver hassle free parking for their customers by smartly navigating drivers to the best available parking based on user preferences and introducing pre-bookable spaces as a Software-as-a-Service solution – Save-a-Space! Accelogress is working in collaboration with partners in the UK on trialing the solution developed as part of the frontierCities startup accelerator programme and Innovate UK funding.

Our Accelogress journey started in 2012. After a year of consultancy work delivered to local businesses by our founder Ralf Kernchen, we received funding to analyse the transport and parking market and its opportunities. Research shows that it takes drivers about 20mins to find available parking, a major contributing factor to traffic and pollution. We also conducted focus groups and surveys with more than 360 drivers in the UK and learned that around 40% of participants would be prepared to pay extra for more convenient parking, such as reserving a space in advance.

Our first solution Save-a-Space has been well received by cities we talked to and we’ve run successful trials. Currently underway in the West Midlands with our partners TfWM. It is possible to integrate real-time occupancy data to help parking management. Save-a-Space helps to provide a personalised parking service to customers via the free and customisable Save-a-Space app. For the pre-booked spaces parking operators receive payments via the app.

Benefits include increased revenue, reduced costs for unused parking spaces & operations and generation of big data on driver behaviour. It will help cities to reduce traffic congestion and pollution and provide an improved customer experience that drivers will love, because it will get them faster to their available space.

Just recently we are working on creating a big data solution with the European EDI programme in partnership with electronic payment provider Via Verde in Portugal. The result of the project, the Journey Analytics Platform allows mobility operators to use transactional data about drivers travel and parking in order to identify user groups of similar behaviour in order to improve service to their customers and identify new revenue opportunities with service partners in and around cities.
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Recommendations

Linda Cheung

Linda Cheung Innovation Advisor at Oxford Innovation

A smart #SmartCities start-up! Through Save-a-Space, Accelogress are raising revenues for their commercial clients, providing convenience to their consumer customers, reducing congestion and improving air quality. What’s not to like?!

Save-a-Space has already achieved considerable traction and success, including winning support from Techstars, SETsquared and Oxford Innovation, receiving significant Innovate UK and EU FrontierCities grants, and securing innovative development partners.

Accelogress are well placed for business growth. Local authorities are a target as they can't fill up 40% of their spaces. If local authorities increased space usage by 10%, they would receive an additional £120m of revenue while reducing pollution.

Working with Accelogress is an absolute delight. They understand that innovation must be accompanied by commercialisation, and have been proactive and smart about leveraging the support offered through their successes. There’s that word again: Smart!

Caroline Fleming

Caroline Fleming Head of Incubation and Director of Surrey100 Club at Univerisity of Surrey

Accelogress are committed to developing innovative solutions and have proactively used the guidance and support we offer to develop their company and raise customer awareness. They have achieved some key engagement milestones including their involvement in the Innovate UK/IC Tomorrow project and their recent partnership with the local Borough Council on an extended parking trial.
They have established a strong working relationship with Surrey University and their business and technical skills are highly regarded by other SMEs based at the Technology Centre, enabling them to build strategic relationships for further market opportunities.
We see them as a company with high growth potential, which can be realised if they are able to complete the optimisation of their save-a-space product and process with acquiring customers in their first target market of parking operators.