Project
CityMotion - Data Fusion for Mobility Consumers, Providers, and Planners
Funding origin:
Portugal
STRIA Roadmaps:
Network and traffic management systems (NTM)
Smart mobility and services (SMO)
Duration:
Start date: 01/12/2007,
End date: 01/12/2010
Status: Finished
Funding details:
Overview
Background & policy context:
This project focused on the development of a knowledge infrastructure, computational models, and user applications that allowed access to real-time information about the state of transportation-related resources as well as predictions regarding their future state. A pilot service that exemplified the usage potential of available data will be provided to citizens for making public transportation more efficient and pleasant to use and to policy-makers as a decision-support tool.
Objectives:
The project was organized around the following specific objectives:
- Acquiring and parsing data that described the state of transportation-related resources (e.g. bus and train locations, cell phone traces, road sensors, GPS tracking, weather, emergency events, and census data);
- Developing a data fusion engine that combined the data to extract from them additional information including predictions;
- Developing a model-based data fusion engine (with simulation capabilities) that modelled a particular transportation network along with the behaviour of travellers within it;
- Developing a web-based service that enables different applications to access the data collected;
- Developing an interactive multi-modal, multi-criteria route-planning application that would exemplify the capabilities of the data fusion engine and provide support to the travelling decisions of the public;
- Developing a geographical modelling and visualization module of city dynamics for use by planners and service providers.
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