[talk-ph] Crowdsourcing Vehicle Traffic Information, mentioned in talk-ph Digest, Vol 51, Issue 11
maning sambale
emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
Sun Oct 21 10:14:38 BST 2012
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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> 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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