1. Waze Partnership
Communicating Planned Road Closures
Ed Blayney
9/23/15
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2. Agenda
• Project Contributors
• Background
• Project Execution
• Results
• Waze Informational Materials
• Going Forward
• Questions
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3. Project Contributors
• Phil Gardner, PW GIS
• Solita Johnson, PW GIS
• Justin O’Brien, PW GIS
• Al Andrews, PW
• Tonya Richardson, PW
• Harold Adams, PW
• Harry Kron, DoIT
• Matt Gotth-Olsen, DoIT
• Carol Boyle, LMPD
• Jermaine Burks, Codes
• Diane Atzinger, Codes
• Ben Anderson, Codes
• Jane Poole, LOJIC
• Jess Hamner, LOJIC
• Matt Gantner, DoIT
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4. Background
• Mayor’s Office
– Wanted the ability to visually communicate
planned closures with the public in near-real time
• LOJIC
– #1 strategic priority to develop a road-closure app
• Environmental Factors
– LMG had tried to solve this problem twice before
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5. Project Execution
• Project Management (PM) Process
– Followed Metro PM standards
– Documented the process for organizational learning
• Two phases
– Phase 1: Created a Road Closure Data API
• API = data-feed
– Phase 2: Fixed Internal Communication Issues
• Concurrently: Established Waze partnership
– Connected Citizens Platform
– Mutually beneficial relationship
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6. Project Execution – 1st Phase
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7. Project Process – 1st Phase
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8. Project Execution – 2nd Phase (Before)
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9. Project Execution – 2nd Phase (After)
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10. Results
• Louisville Metro now has the ability to communicate with the public
about road closures in near real-time
• Open Data Sets (In progress)
– Public Works planned road closure feed
– Waze’s crowd-sourced data feed
• Improved internal communication
– Reduced touch points in the process from 41 to 19
– Closer to having a one source of truth for planned road closures
• Consolidated communication plan with the public
– Eliminated redundant information caches with partial information
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11. Waze Informational Materials
• Video explaining Connected Citizens Platform
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrFqwiBOYrY
• Waze Live Map
– Go to Louisville, KY to see all of our reports!
– https://www.waze.com/livemap
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12. Going Forward
• Waze Partnership
– 1 of 40 international partners
• Most quickly established partnership out of all 40
• 5th U.S. city involved with the program
– Boston, LA, D.C., and John’s Creek (ATL area)
– Two-way data sharing agreement
• Free
• No significant reoccurring work LMG
• LMG gets access to Waze data from Louisville Metro area
– LMG can use the data for a variety of purposes:
• Supplements our general traffic monitoring
• Improving traffic flows (Rio de Janiero, Brazil)
• Pothole identification (Boston, Washington D.C.)
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13. Going Forward
• Internal Processes
– Continue to improve the information going into the
data feed w/ follow-on projects
• Emergency Closures
• Flooding
– Integrate the road closure data feed into internal
operations
– Use the Waze data for a variety of historical data-
analysis projects
• Congestion mapping
• Corridor Safety
• Incident confirmation
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14. Questions?
Press Conference
Mayor’s Gallery
10:30 am
Thursday, 9/24/15
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