<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ns2:project xmlns:ns1="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api" xmlns:ns2="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project" xmlns:ns3="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/fund" xmlns:ns4="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/person" xmlns:ns5="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project/outcome" xmlns:ns6="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/organisation" ns1:created="2026-06-22T07:57:45Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/projects/CB0A8C8D-FE0B-44F2-9813-740E090FE977" ns1:id="CB0A8C8D-FE0B-44F2-9813-740E090FE977"><ns1:links><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/2DD0D2CE-557C-42C7-A52A-AC687B6703BD" ns1:rel="LEAD_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/2DD0D2CE-557C-42C7-A52A-AC687B6703BD" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:end="2013-10-31T00:00:00Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/funds/1CA2485D-FDE4-402E-BB0C-C14D621ABAE1" ns1:rel="FUND" ns1:start="2013-03-31T23:00:00Z"/></ns1:links><ns2:identifiers><ns2:identifier ns2:type="RCUK">750414</ns2:identifier></ns2:identifiers><ns2:title>BrightMinded</ns2:title><ns2:status>Closed</ns2:status><ns2:grantCategory>Vouchers</ns2:grantCategory><ns2:leadFunder>Innovate UK</ns2:leadFunder><ns2:abstractText>BrighMinded proposes to take a step toward the future of the “living city” by introducing a Nature-inspired approach to the improvement of Public Transport Infrastructure. This would be achieved by augmenting real-time, geo-located, open-data generated by travellers and vehicles with a so-called &amp;quot;stigmergic&amp;quot; layer. Stigmergy is a form of &amp;quot;self-organisation&amp;quot;. From Wikipedia: &amp;quot;Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination between agents or actions. The principle is that the trace left in the environment by an action stimulates the performance of a next action, by the same or a different agent. In that way, subsequent actions tend to reinforce and build on each other, leading to the spontaneous emergence of coherent, apparently systematic activity.&amp;quot;. The &amp;quot;stigmergic data&amp;quot; would be used to dynamically optimise in real time transit performance, routing and traveller waiting time.</ns2:abstractText></ns2:project>