[talk-ph] Crowdsourcing Vehicle Traffic Information, mentioned in talk-ph Digest, Vol 51, Issue 11

Holly Krambeck hkrambeck at gmail.com
Sun Oct 21 04:36:59 BST 2012


Hi, Maning --

Very happy to share -- thank you. We are still testing and developing the
application --once the system is live, we look forward to getting feedback
from the OSM community.

In the interim, following is a description of the project, as well as its
background and rationale.

*Cebu Taxi Crowd-Source Pilot*

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*Project Rationale*

By nature, effective and evidence-based transport planning and management
is an extremely data-intensive exercise, requiring continuously updated
traffic counts, travel speed measurements, origin-destination and household
surveys, passenger counts, user surveys, road surface surveys, etc. to
facilitate the optimal use of existing road space. But because these inputs
tend to require significant man-power and resources, these fundamental
activities are often not undertaken in cities that have limited budgets,
resulting in planning and operating inefficiencies and therefore
unnecessary congestion, fuel consumption and emissions in urban transport
systems worldwide. This issue is particularly acute in Cebu, Philippines,
where there are few resources dedicated to such on-going data collection
activities.



There are three parallel information and communications technology (ICT)
trends that are creating unprecedented opportunities to support efficient,
low cost solutions for urban transport planning and management, that bridge
the gap between traditional, time and resource-intensive manual data
collection practices and expensive intelligent transportation systems:



·         Increasing penetration and declining cost of ICT, both for
consumers and governments;

·         Emerging open transport data protocols and standards that support
widescale replication of activities; and

·         Increasing use of open-source applications, including Open Street
Map.



In particular, these three trends are creating opportunities for:



·         Improving efficiency in conducting ridership surveys and
soliciting public feedback for system planning, operations, and
maintenance;

·         Reducing costs associated with collecting basic operating data to
support planning and management, as well as disseminating important system
information (transit service, congestion points, etc.); and

·         Reducing cost and increasing speed of replication of best
practices simultaneously across many cities.



The Pilot has been designed to leverage these emerging opportunities in ICT
to overcome perennial issues associated with the cost and resources
required for traditional transport data collection and analysis – the
fundamental basis for all transport planning, operating, and investment
decisions.

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*Project Description*

Taxis in Cebu circulate the streets frequently, and each cover about 300 km
per day, 365 days per year. By equipping these vehicles with some form of
GPS unit, they have the potential to act as information probes, collecting
extremely rich and valuable data on travel conditions in the city. The more
kilometers a taxi travels, the higher quality data that is received.

Under this pilot, the team, coordinated by *ITP* (http://www.itpworld.net/),
will distribute GPS-enabled mobile phones to a sample of taxis. Mobile
phones, rather than dedicated or proprietary GPS units, are used to support
global replicability of the program – with a phone-based platform, any taxi
company in the world would be able to download the open-source software
developed by *AutoAlert* (http://www.autoalert.com/) through the Project
and, in theory, begin using it right away.

With the tracked signals, the Cebu City Transport Office can use web-based
open-source software developed by *OpenPlans* (http://openplans.org/) to:

·         Generate real-time congestion maps (that the Cebu transport
agency can use for adjusting signal timings, testing efficacy of congestion
management actions,  supporting evidence-based transport infrastructure
investment decisions);

·         Identify sudden network stoppages (e.g., accidents) and alert
traffic enforcers; and

·         Dramatically improve the efficiency of some basic data collection
processes, like travel-time delay surveys.

To support system sustainability, *OpenPlans* and *AutoAlert* are also
developing an open-source web-based platform for taxi companies that will
provide vehicle location and operations tracking services, as well as a
“panic button” service. Again, the more taxis that use the free dispatch
tools, the higher quality the data that will be received by the city.


To date, the team has successfully deployed 5 units over a one-month period
to access the viability of the software and local network, and over the
coming months, the team will continue to test and refine the application
until the project is fully deployed. Here is a screen shot from the initial
test, using OpenPlan's web-based interface:

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[image: Inline image 1]


It is the aim of the Project Team to ensure that these data feeds are made
publically available, so that other developers and OSM advocates, like you
on this distribution list, can ensure that the people of Cebu fully reap
the benefits of these valuable data.



If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to get in touch
with our project team:



·         Atty. Rafael Yap, Cebu City Transportation Department (
rclyap at yahoo.com)

·         Holly Krambeck, World Bank (hkrambeck at worldbank.org)

·         Neil Taylor, ITP (taylor at itp.com)

·         Kevin Webb, Open Plans (kwebb at openplans.org)

·         Richard Harris, AutoAlert (richard at autoalert.me.uk))



Best,

Holly Krambeck, Team Leader



The World Bank

Address: 1818 H Street NW; Washington, DC

Phone: +1-202-473-2282

E-mail: hkrambeck at worldbank.org

Blog: http://blogs.worldbank.org/transport/blogs/holly-krambeck




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Hi,

There was an SOTM US event last weekend.  I have been browsing the
slides and I found this talk about ideas on gathering real traffic
data ala OSM by Jeff Maki of OpenPlans [0].
What struck me is the pilot test in Cebu City a project by ITP with
WorldBank [1]

During the OSM training in WorldBank last Oct 5, Neil and Holly
presented this case study.  @Holly and Neil (subscribed here), could
you share a bit of this project here?
It would be great if the rest of the mailinglist would know more about
your project.

[0]
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1f0Zw5_ui8perpVX-_Mh-saEHHCSQISotRqWrI3qz5HE/edit#slide=id.p
[1]
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1f0Zw5_ui8perpVX-_Mh-saEHHCSQISotRqWrI3qz5HE/edit#slide=id.g20ddac8d_0_70

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cheers,
maning
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