[OSM-talk] Examples of OSM used in Transport Planning?

[Nic Roets]

Hello Mikel,

Most of your examples concerns the day to day planning done by
individuals. But my guess is that the conference concerns long term
planning by authorities, esp. infrastructure.

There is an open source software package called MATSIM that predicts
congestion and traveling times. AFAIK, it can combine digital maps
(OSM), public transport data, population data and landuse data. Then
it can simulate millions? of commuters each of them optimizing their
traveling patterns.

Although European universities are driving the R&D, it is also being
used in South Africa. I met a couple of times with Professor Johan
Joubert who is driving the research here. Although OSM is not yet at
the same quality as commercial maps, it fits his requirements better
(easy integration, flexibility etc). In fact, he and his students have
done a significant amount of tracing of the low income and informal
settlements. They are also busy adding "lanes" tags to make the
simulations more realistic. So they are using the Bing aerial
extensively.

Here in the Gauteng province, a a number of large transport projects
are nearing completion (the Gautrain rapid rail link, the motorway
improvement project and subsequent tolling and the Bus Rapid Transport
service (BRT)). His work is being used to predict the effect they will
have on economic growth.

Regards,
Nic

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> The World Bank is holding a conference this Wednesday on Transport Planning
> & Applications, and I've been asked to give a talk on applications of OSM in
> transport.
>
> Off the top of my head, I think of ITO's work, London Tube Travel Time, UK
> Rail OSM seat back maps, Portland Oregon's transport work (they'll be
> there), India railways maps. Just a few...
>
> What are some of the best example applications of OSM in transport?
>
> Thanks
> Mikel
>
> == Mikel Maron ==
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