By Andy Hudson-Smith (UCL) at the Internet of Cars Symposium, 24 Sept 2014, held at University of Southampton, UK.

1. London City Dashboard - Visualising Flows and Movements in London (and
other places….)
Andy Hudson-Smith, Director, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University
College London - @digitalurban
! Internet of Cars Symposium

2. The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA)
!
24 Post Docs, 2 Profs, 1 Reader, 1 Google Maps
Developer Expert, 12 PhD’s;
Urban Modelling, Resilience, Internet of Things,
Sensors, GIS, BIM, Quantified Self, Electroencephalography,
Transport, Crowds, Flows…
!
3 Masters Courses -
MRes Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation;
MSc Smart Cities and Urban Analytics;
MRes Smart Cities.
!

3. On the edge of a shift in our
understanding the Built Environment
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Self Monitoring, Analysis and
Reporting Technologies (SMART)
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Moving Towards Realtime Data and
Realtime City Data Systems

4. Data
4
• 90 % of the data in the world created in the last
two years alone;
• Data comes from ‘everywhere’ - sensors,
mobile devices, government, the crowd;
• Increasingly geo-located;
• Increasingly we are tagged and tracked…

5. 5
The City as a Server
(compared to early hypertext - 1994);
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The City as a Laboratory - Sensors;
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Moving Towards Live Feeds/Urban
Indicators

6. Flows
–
Origins
and
Des1na1ons

7. 7

8. 8 http://bikes.oobrien.com/global.php

10. 10
Oyster Card Transactions
Dataset
!
July to September 2012
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1 billion transactions
762 million OD trips
291 million UG and rail trips
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11.5m Oyster Cards
!!
No routing data

11. 11

12. 12

13. 13
2am 4am 6am 8am 10am 12pm 2pm 4pm 6pm 8pm 10pm 12am 2am 4am
900
800
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
−100
Time of Day
Number of Events
Entry at Arsenal (10 Mn. Intervals)
Weekday
Saturday
Sunday
2am 4am 6am 8am 10am 12pm 2pm 4pm 6pm 8pm 10pm 12am 2am 4am
400
300
200
100
0
−100
−200
−300
−400
1000
800
600
400
200
0
−200
−400
−600
−800
−1000
Time of Day
Number of Events
Entry at Bank (10 Mn. Intervals)
Weekday
Saturday
Sunday
2am 4am 6am 8am 10am 12pm 2pm 4pm 6pm 8pm 10pm 12am 2am 4am
150
100
50
0
−50
−100
−150
Time of Day
Number of Events
Entry at Bayswater (10 Mn. Intervals)
Weekday
Saturday
Sunday
2am 4am 6am 8am 10am 12pm 2pm 4pm 6pm 8pm 10pm 12am 2am 4am
−500
Time of Day
Number of Events
Entry at Camden Town (10 Mn. Intervals)
Weekday
Saturday
Sunday
Nightlife
Work
Tourism?
Events

14. Flows
–
Origins
and
Des1na1ons

15. 15
Shi4s
in
Traffic
Accessibility
if
all
Bridges
across
the
Thames
are
Inoperable
as
far
West
as
Hammersmith

16. 16
Shi4s
in
Traffic
Accessibility
if
all
Bridges
across
the
Thames
are
Inoperable
as
far
West
as
Hammersmith

17. 17
citydashboard.org

18. 18

19. 19

20. 20 demo.thecitybeat.org

21. 21

22. 22

23. 23
City Dashboard Now Archives -
over 1 Billion Data Points;
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Links into wider urban modelling;
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Predicting the next 30 minutes of the city;
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Moving towards a new sciences of cities....
!
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25. 26

26. 27

27. 28

29. 30 Data can be harvested by anyone…

30. 31 River Boats and Tweets - Towards a Living City Viz

31. 32
Augmented Reality Sensor Data
- ‘Park in a Box’ / Agent Based Modelling

33. 34

34. 35

35. 36

36. 37

37. Next Steps -
3D Realtime City - City and Hyperlocal Dashboards
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Transport;
Social Networks;
Quantified Self;
The Crowd;
Things;
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Modelled for Resilience and What if Scenarios;
Game Engine Technology
!

38. London City Dashboard - Visualising Flows and Movements in London (and
other places….)
Andy Hudson-Smith, Director, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University
College London - @digitalurban
! Internet of Cars Symposium