[talk-ph] Crowdsourcing Vehicle Traffic Information, mentioned in talk-ph Digest, Vol 51, Issue 11
Holly Krambeck
hkrambeck at gmail.com
Sun Oct 21 14:52:50 BST 2012
Dear Maning,
Thank you -- yes! I was inspired by this initiative in Japan during the
2011 tsunami (see link) on how floating car data data can be used to
identify flooded-out roads in real time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoIDSWBMao4
Best,
Holly
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 5:14 AM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>wrote:
> Dear Holly,
>
> Thanks for this Holly. Very interesting project. In the future, it would
> be nice if osm can access these passive gps traces (anonymize of course) as
> additional source for digitizing roads.
>
> Maning Sambale (mobile)
> On Oct 21, 2012 11:47 AM, "Holly Krambeck" <hkrambeck at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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*
>>
>> *
>> *
>>
>> *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.
>>
>> * *
>>
>> *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:
>>
>> :
>>
>> [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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>> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:42:49 +0800
>> From: maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
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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
>>
>> --
>> cheers,
>> maning
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