Digital Image of the City - Infrastructure
Bowdoin College
Fall 2014
Rachel Barnes, Ezra Duplissie-Cyr, Ike May, Kote Mushegian, Luis Paniagua, Mingo Sanchez, Vivian Yang
Presentation given on 12/10/14
Digital Image of the City - Infrastructure
Bowdoin College
Fall 2014
Roya Moussapour, Alex N'Diaye, Karl Reinhardt, Alexi Robbins, James Wang, Max Wolf
Presentation given on 12/10/14
Presentation to the Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee of the Utah State Legislature.
NOTE: The interim committee meeting was canceled, this presentation is for informational purposes only.
A Landscape of Citizen Observatories in Europe - EuroGEOSS PosterMargaret Gold
This document summarizes work to define citizen observatories and map existing initiatives across Europe. It reviewed literature for a consolidated definition of citizen observatories and frameworks for classifying initiatives based on characteristics like geographic scope, participants, data accessibility, and more. Existing citizen observatory projects from the EU's Horizon 2020 and FP7 programs are mapped according to these classifications to benchmark features and functions. Practitioners are invited to share additional project details to compile a more comprehensive landscape of citizen observatory initiatives in Europe.
The document summarizes research on how Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems in Cali, Colombia and Lima, Peru have impacted low-income populations' transportation access and mobility. Key findings include:
1) While the poor use the BRT systems, they do so at lower rates than other public transit due to issues with service quality, routes not reaching destinations, and in Lima, unaffordability when considering all trips needed.
2) BRT coverage is weaker in areas of extreme poverty, limiting access, and frequencies are lower there as well.
3) The systems provide important transportation for work and school trips by the poor, but issues remain around integration, quality, and affordability.
Joint paper with Siddharth Nair within our Putting Community Knowledge in Place special session at the Knowledge Cities World Summit in Melbourne, November 2010.
The African Open Science Platform project aims to coordinate open science activities across Africa through establishing core data infrastructure and building capacity. It conducted a landscape study of existing initiatives and engaged stakeholders to develop frameworks for open science policy, data infrastructure, skills development, and incentives. The next phase will launch an open science platform to register African data initiatives, provide network and computing resources, support FAIR data practices, establish a data science institute, and develop education networks - advancing open science across the continent.
Digital Image of the City - Infrastructure
Bowdoin College
Fall 2014
Roya Moussapour, Alex N'Diaye, Karl Reinhardt, Alexi Robbins, James Wang, Max Wolf
Presentation given on 12/10/14
Presentation to the Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee of the Utah State Legislature.
NOTE: The interim committee meeting was canceled, this presentation is for informational purposes only.
A Landscape of Citizen Observatories in Europe - EuroGEOSS PosterMargaret Gold
This document summarizes work to define citizen observatories and map existing initiatives across Europe. It reviewed literature for a consolidated definition of citizen observatories and frameworks for classifying initiatives based on characteristics like geographic scope, participants, data accessibility, and more. Existing citizen observatory projects from the EU's Horizon 2020 and FP7 programs are mapped according to these classifications to benchmark features and functions. Practitioners are invited to share additional project details to compile a more comprehensive landscape of citizen observatory initiatives in Europe.
The document summarizes research on how Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems in Cali, Colombia and Lima, Peru have impacted low-income populations' transportation access and mobility. Key findings include:
1) While the poor use the BRT systems, they do so at lower rates than other public transit due to issues with service quality, routes not reaching destinations, and in Lima, unaffordability when considering all trips needed.
2) BRT coverage is weaker in areas of extreme poverty, limiting access, and frequencies are lower there as well.
3) The systems provide important transportation for work and school trips by the poor, but issues remain around integration, quality, and affordability.
Joint paper with Siddharth Nair within our Putting Community Knowledge in Place special session at the Knowledge Cities World Summit in Melbourne, November 2010.
The African Open Science Platform project aims to coordinate open science activities across Africa through establishing core data infrastructure and building capacity. It conducted a landscape study of existing initiatives and engaged stakeholders to develop frameworks for open science policy, data infrastructure, skills development, and incentives. The next phase will launch an open science platform to register African data initiatives, provide network and computing resources, support FAIR data practices, establish a data science institute, and develop education networks - advancing open science across the continent.
Open Source, Open Data: Driving Innovation in Smart CitiesDataWorks Summit
A city is a system of systems with independent objectives and governance for transportation, energy, healthcare, safety, security, and infrastructure. A smart city relies on data to be the connectivity between independent functions, and open data to be the building blocks for citizen-centered design, inclusion, and sustainability. Big Data is not about size – it is about finding new life-changing and transformational opportunities using data.
From Smart Mobility and Smart Energy to improved Public Health, Safety, & Governance – this session will discuss how cities are delivering better citizen services leveraging open source technology with a consistent governance and security framework that spans the data center and the public clouds.
Data integration is the key to ensuring that a city’s attempts to become an intelligent system of systems doesn’t result in a system of silos. A single view requires the capability to integrate transactional data from traditional data stores with person generated data, unstructured data, and machine sensor (IoT) data. The key to managing such a range of data is a capability that allows for both scaling analytic workloads and the preservation of detailed data with unexplored value, as both are vital to future growth potential.
Key Takeaways:
Understand the common use cases that tier 1, tier 2, and emerging cities are undertaking to deliver tactical results and progress towards policy objectives.
Understand the role of a shared catalog, unified security and consistent governance in building a secure, trusted, and connected capability.
This document discusses open data and its potential economic and social benefits. It provides an agenda for a workshop on open data, including introductions, a video on what open data is, and discussions on how to make open data work and next steps. Transportation data from London used in apps is cited as saving £15-58 million per year. Open data is defined as information available to anyone for any purpose at no cost. Open data can help address societal challenges and generate value.
Better Use of Data: open data, data ethics, data sharingEllen Broad
This document discusses the Open Data Institute (ODI) and its mission to connect, equip, and inspire people around the world to innovate with data. The ODI believes that unlocking and connecting data from dozens of countries and thousands of companies has the potential to unlock trillions in economic value and impact billions of people by enabling better decision making. Open data initiatives have shown returns on investment of 58:1 for Transport for London and 70:1 for Denmark's national addressing data, demonstrating the significant economic benefits of opening up public sector data.
The document discusses how open source software is powering government and provides examples of governments using open source. It proposes having core government systems like accounting, human resources, and office suites available on a USB stick. It then gives examples of governments developing and using open source software including the UK and US sharing code, the Australian National Archives creating a digital preservation system called Xena, and the Indonesian and Australian governments co-developing a disaster impact software called InaSAFE.
Open Data Conference - Gesche Schmid - IntroductinOpening-up.eu
This document provides an agenda and details for an event on open data across Europe. The event will explore opportunities and challenges of open data for governments and businesses, and examples of how open data has been used. Speakers will discuss open data initiatives in the UK, EU projects on linked open data, standards for open data, and examples of open data applications from Ghent and Norway. There will also be a marketplace for participants to discuss open data projects and ideas. The goal is to demonstrate what can be done with open data and the skills needed to use it.
Community engagement in planning - now and into the futureCraig Thomler
The document discusses current and future approaches to online community engagement and tools for public participation. It provides examples of using social media, interactive maps, games and augmented reality to facilitate conversations around urban planning and design. The presentation encourages the use of technology to better engage communities in discussions about their cities.
Broadband Planning to Support Economic Development: Hembreenado-web
This presentation was delivered at NADO's 2018 Annual Training Conference, held in Charlotte, NC on October 13-16. For more information, visit: https://www.nado.org/events/2018-annual-training-conference/
Fostering Connectivity & Interactivity Between all Urban EntitiesCharalampos Doukas
Talk about connectivity & interactivity in the context of IoT and citizen participation. Presented at RE.WORK - Future Cities Summit, London, December 2014
Planning for accessibility in growing citiespeter_kant
How to keep your city/region accessible if there is no such thing as an average day? The transport network is contiously under disruption due to roadworks and events. Inhabitants, visitors and companies are faced with (unexpected) hindrance. The Road Works Optimizer is a planning instrument that helps cities in optimizing their road works and event schedules to minimize hindrance.
The document summarizes Map Kibera's GroundTruth Initiative to map Kibera, one of the largest slums in Africa. The initiative recruited local mappers to map roads, water points, and other infrastructure using GPS over several phases. This created the densest map ever and empowered locals by training them in technologies to report issues, tell stories, and generate data about their community. The goal is to create engaged citizen journalists and give communities tools to share information and voice concerns.
Communities in all settings and at all scales have
access to information, advanced technologies and smart
services that enhance the sustainability and quality of
life, improve health and safety, and help provide
economic prosperity for their residents.
ITS Heartland 2012
Annual Meeting
Kansas City, MO
Please visit our Vimeo site to access voice narrated presentations: https://vimeo.com/matc/review/42141445/53acec88b6
Presented by Leslie Spencer- Fowler, ITS Program Manager, Kansas Department of Transportation
Geography as melting pot for cross-domain bicycling research and promotionMartin L
This document discusses using geography and spatial analysis to promote bicycling research. It contains the following key points:
1. Spatial factors like mobility, accessibility, proximity and connectivity influence transportation options and bicycling.
2. Geographical information systems (GIS) can acquire, analyze and visualize spatial data to model scenarios and relate data layers, providing a platform to integrate knowledge across domains for complex issues like bicycling.
3. Examples demonstrate using GIS and spatial modeling to simulate bicycle traffic, design healthy commute programs, and plan bike sharing systems.
The document discusses potential issues with the repeal of net neutrality laws in the United States. Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers should provide equal access to all online content and services without favoring or blocking particular products or websites. In December 2017, the U.S. government approved removing net neutrality protections, allowing ISPs to potentially charge higher fees or slow speeds for certain content. This repeal may lead to slower internet speeds and increased prices for consumers from Internet service providers gaining more control over online access and pricing.
The document discusses the value of open data in transportation. It begins by defining open data and what constitutes high quality open data. It then discusses how in 2005, Portland opened its transit data in the GTFS format, which has since been adopted by 596 transit agencies worldwide and led to the development of many transit apps. The document also notes that open data in London and Massachusetts has gone beyond just bus data to include other modes of transportation. It argues that making transportation data openly available can save agencies money and improve commutes by enabling private sector innovation and app development.
Mobile Age ensures the inclusion of seniors in digital public services thanks to the development of user-friendly mobile applications based on open government data.
Thus, it supports their access to civic participation, their involvement in their communities, and helps them benefit from open government data and mobile technologies.
Such mobile applications will be tested at co-creation workshops held in four pilot sites in Europe, namely UK, Germany, Spain and Greece.
This material reflects only the author's view and the Research Executive Agency (REA) is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
http://www.mobile-age.eu/
The document discusses using big data and new technologies to improve transport planning and operations. It provides examples of collecting lifelogging data through wearable sensors to analyze travel behavior, crowdsourced bicyclist data to evaluate infrastructure investments, and using various data sources to examine links between transport and labor market outcomes. The document emphasizes that transport systems need to be re-evaluated in some areas to better match changing job locations and needs of workers.
Closing the Loop - Improving Transit through Crowd-sourced InformationSean Barbeau
Offering real-time arrival information to riders via mobile applications has been shown to improve the rider’s perception of transit, and even increase ridership. This direct connection to riders also offers the agency an opportunity to collect feedback on how transit service and infrastructure can be improved. However, managing the sheer volume of this rider feedback can be very challenging, especially when various departments and agencies (e.g., city/county government) are involved (e.g., does this broken bench belong to the transit agency or the county?). This presentation discusses a pilot project in Tampa, FL, funded by the Florida Department of Transportation and the National Center for Transit Research, which focused on the improvement of the feedback loop from riders back to transit agencies, local government, and departments of transportation. This project made improvements to the OneBusAway mobile app, originally deployed in Tampa in 2013, to include support for the Open311 standard (http://www.open311.org/) for issue reporting. Open311 support gives agencies the option of selecting a hosted issue management solution that supports Open311 such as SeeClickFix.com and PublicStuff.com, or the option to utilize existing open-source Open311-compliant software.
See the recorded webcast at http://www.cutr.usf.edu/2016/07/cutr-webcast-improving-transit-through-crowdsourced-information/.
Open Source, Open Data: Driving Innovation in Smart CitiesDataWorks Summit
A city is a system of systems with independent objectives and governance for transportation, energy, healthcare, safety, security, and infrastructure. A smart city relies on data to be the connectivity between independent functions, and open data to be the building blocks for citizen-centered design, inclusion, and sustainability. Big Data is not about size – it is about finding new life-changing and transformational opportunities using data.
From Smart Mobility and Smart Energy to improved Public Health, Safety, & Governance – this session will discuss how cities are delivering better citizen services leveraging open source technology with a consistent governance and security framework that spans the data center and the public clouds.
Data integration is the key to ensuring that a city’s attempts to become an intelligent system of systems doesn’t result in a system of silos. A single view requires the capability to integrate transactional data from traditional data stores with person generated data, unstructured data, and machine sensor (IoT) data. The key to managing such a range of data is a capability that allows for both scaling analytic workloads and the preservation of detailed data with unexplored value, as both are vital to future growth potential.
Key Takeaways:
Understand the common use cases that tier 1, tier 2, and emerging cities are undertaking to deliver tactical results and progress towards policy objectives.
Understand the role of a shared catalog, unified security and consistent governance in building a secure, trusted, and connected capability.
This document discusses open data and its potential economic and social benefits. It provides an agenda for a workshop on open data, including introductions, a video on what open data is, and discussions on how to make open data work and next steps. Transportation data from London used in apps is cited as saving £15-58 million per year. Open data is defined as information available to anyone for any purpose at no cost. Open data can help address societal challenges and generate value.
Better Use of Data: open data, data ethics, data sharingEllen Broad
This document discusses the Open Data Institute (ODI) and its mission to connect, equip, and inspire people around the world to innovate with data. The ODI believes that unlocking and connecting data from dozens of countries and thousands of companies has the potential to unlock trillions in economic value and impact billions of people by enabling better decision making. Open data initiatives have shown returns on investment of 58:1 for Transport for London and 70:1 for Denmark's national addressing data, demonstrating the significant economic benefits of opening up public sector data.
The document discusses how open source software is powering government and provides examples of governments using open source. It proposes having core government systems like accounting, human resources, and office suites available on a USB stick. It then gives examples of governments developing and using open source software including the UK and US sharing code, the Australian National Archives creating a digital preservation system called Xena, and the Indonesian and Australian governments co-developing a disaster impact software called InaSAFE.
Open Data Conference - Gesche Schmid - IntroductinOpening-up.eu
This document provides an agenda and details for an event on open data across Europe. The event will explore opportunities and challenges of open data for governments and businesses, and examples of how open data has been used. Speakers will discuss open data initiatives in the UK, EU projects on linked open data, standards for open data, and examples of open data applications from Ghent and Norway. There will also be a marketplace for participants to discuss open data projects and ideas. The goal is to demonstrate what can be done with open data and the skills needed to use it.
Community engagement in planning - now and into the futureCraig Thomler
The document discusses current and future approaches to online community engagement and tools for public participation. It provides examples of using social media, interactive maps, games and augmented reality to facilitate conversations around urban planning and design. The presentation encourages the use of technology to better engage communities in discussions about their cities.
Broadband Planning to Support Economic Development: Hembreenado-web
This presentation was delivered at NADO's 2018 Annual Training Conference, held in Charlotte, NC on October 13-16. For more information, visit: https://www.nado.org/events/2018-annual-training-conference/
Fostering Connectivity & Interactivity Between all Urban EntitiesCharalampos Doukas
Talk about connectivity & interactivity in the context of IoT and citizen participation. Presented at RE.WORK - Future Cities Summit, London, December 2014
Planning for accessibility in growing citiespeter_kant
How to keep your city/region accessible if there is no such thing as an average day? The transport network is contiously under disruption due to roadworks and events. Inhabitants, visitors and companies are faced with (unexpected) hindrance. The Road Works Optimizer is a planning instrument that helps cities in optimizing their road works and event schedules to minimize hindrance.
The document summarizes Map Kibera's GroundTruth Initiative to map Kibera, one of the largest slums in Africa. The initiative recruited local mappers to map roads, water points, and other infrastructure using GPS over several phases. This created the densest map ever and empowered locals by training them in technologies to report issues, tell stories, and generate data about their community. The goal is to create engaged citizen journalists and give communities tools to share information and voice concerns.
Communities in all settings and at all scales have
access to information, advanced technologies and smart
services that enhance the sustainability and quality of
life, improve health and safety, and help provide
economic prosperity for their residents.
ITS Heartland 2012
Annual Meeting
Kansas City, MO
Please visit our Vimeo site to access voice narrated presentations: https://vimeo.com/matc/review/42141445/53acec88b6
Presented by Leslie Spencer- Fowler, ITS Program Manager, Kansas Department of Transportation
Geography as melting pot for cross-domain bicycling research and promotionMartin L
This document discusses using geography and spatial analysis to promote bicycling research. It contains the following key points:
1. Spatial factors like mobility, accessibility, proximity and connectivity influence transportation options and bicycling.
2. Geographical information systems (GIS) can acquire, analyze and visualize spatial data to model scenarios and relate data layers, providing a platform to integrate knowledge across domains for complex issues like bicycling.
3. Examples demonstrate using GIS and spatial modeling to simulate bicycle traffic, design healthy commute programs, and plan bike sharing systems.
The document discusses potential issues with the repeal of net neutrality laws in the United States. Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers should provide equal access to all online content and services without favoring or blocking particular products or websites. In December 2017, the U.S. government approved removing net neutrality protections, allowing ISPs to potentially charge higher fees or slow speeds for certain content. This repeal may lead to slower internet speeds and increased prices for consumers from Internet service providers gaining more control over online access and pricing.
The document discusses the value of open data in transportation. It begins by defining open data and what constitutes high quality open data. It then discusses how in 2005, Portland opened its transit data in the GTFS format, which has since been adopted by 596 transit agencies worldwide and led to the development of many transit apps. The document also notes that open data in London and Massachusetts has gone beyond just bus data to include other modes of transportation. It argues that making transportation data openly available can save agencies money and improve commutes by enabling private sector innovation and app development.
Mobile Age ensures the inclusion of seniors in digital public services thanks to the development of user-friendly mobile applications based on open government data.
Thus, it supports their access to civic participation, their involvement in their communities, and helps them benefit from open government data and mobile technologies.
Such mobile applications will be tested at co-creation workshops held in four pilot sites in Europe, namely UK, Germany, Spain and Greece.
This material reflects only the author's view and the Research Executive Agency (REA) is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
http://www.mobile-age.eu/
The document discusses using big data and new technologies to improve transport planning and operations. It provides examples of collecting lifelogging data through wearable sensors to analyze travel behavior, crowdsourced bicyclist data to evaluate infrastructure investments, and using various data sources to examine links between transport and labor market outcomes. The document emphasizes that transport systems need to be re-evaluated in some areas to better match changing job locations and needs of workers.
Closing the Loop - Improving Transit through Crowd-sourced InformationSean Barbeau
Offering real-time arrival information to riders via mobile applications has been shown to improve the rider’s perception of transit, and even increase ridership. This direct connection to riders also offers the agency an opportunity to collect feedback on how transit service and infrastructure can be improved. However, managing the sheer volume of this rider feedback can be very challenging, especially when various departments and agencies (e.g., city/county government) are involved (e.g., does this broken bench belong to the transit agency or the county?). This presentation discusses a pilot project in Tampa, FL, funded by the Florida Department of Transportation and the National Center for Transit Research, which focused on the improvement of the feedback loop from riders back to transit agencies, local government, and departments of transportation. This project made improvements to the OneBusAway mobile app, originally deployed in Tampa in 2013, to include support for the Open311 standard (http://www.open311.org/) for issue reporting. Open311 support gives agencies the option of selecting a hosted issue management solution that supports Open311 such as SeeClickFix.com and PublicStuff.com, or the option to utilize existing open-source Open311-compliant software.
See the recorded webcast at http://www.cutr.usf.edu/2016/07/cutr-webcast-improving-transit-through-crowdsourced-information/.
Rob Clayton presented the Traffic Managements Division's 2013 Accomplishments and Needs Report to the Utah Transportation Commission on December 6, 2013.
2017 SeeClickFix Workshop - Closing the Loop - Improving Transit through Crow...Sean Barbeau
This presentation describes a pilot project that improved the OneBusAway mobile transit apps to be able to submit user feedback to agencies using the standardized Open311 specification. As of this presentation (late February 2017), these changes are being piloted in the Tampa Bay area along with the SeeClickFix issue management platform by Hillsborough Area Regional Transit and Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority.
As smart data gradually become mainline data for transportation planning, some obvious flaws in infrastructure decision making become apparent when comparing traditional static data and the dynamic nature of human travel. The static survey, a common source of transportation, encouraged to assign a greater portion of longer trips and predicting more road widening and highways. In reality, shorter trips are dominant in cities. Shared mobility options could provide options for shorter trips. These short trips should be properly corrected and assign in our infrastructure projections when travel demand modeling is developed. Smart data is paving the way to open the door of a new possibility towards shared multimodal cities.
The Richland County Information Technology/Geographic Information Systems Department mobilized mapping tools to disseminate critical information for flood damage assessment and recovery from historic October 2015 rainfall and flooding. They created a collection of open source mapping applications to provide updated information on road closures, dam statuses, debris locations, and damage assessments to emergency responders and the public. Through leveraging cloud technologies, citizen reporting, and collaboration with other agencies, they were able to quickly gather and publish timely, accurate data to support response and recovery efforts in an innovative and cost effective manner.
Cities are facing increasing mobility problems as populations grow. Public transportation systems generate large amounts of data from various sources, but there is a gap between the available data and the knowledge that can be extracted. The document discusses challenges around data integration, collaboration, and knowledge extraction in order to improve public transportation planning, operations, and passenger information systems through solutions like optimization algorithms, real-time tracking and alerts, and multimodal route planners. Political commitment is needed to fully leverage the available data.
Open Data Seminar
Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
D/Public Expenditure and reform, Government Buildings,
Merrion Street, Dublin 2
Conference Room 0.2, South Block
2.00pm, Wednesday 11 February 2015
Tracey P. Lauriault and Rob Kitchin
Programmable City Project, NIRSA, Maynooth University
TfL is responsible for public transport in London and collects large amounts of data from over 30 million daily journeys. They have established an open data program to share this data through APIs and under an open license. This open data is used by hundreds of third party applications and has generated significant economic benefits, including an estimated £30-116 million in annual customer time savings. TfL aims to continue expanding their open data program and partnerships to increase transparency, innovation, and customer experience.
This document summarizes several case studies of using satellite applications to address challenges in different sectors and countries. It discusses projects using earth observation data and geospatial information to help the UK Department for Environment manage land and monitor the environment. It also describes initiatives in Serbia to use satellite imagery for property valuation and taxation, in Syria to create a data fusion dashboard for humanitarian crisis monitoring, in Tanzania and Nigeria to automate road condition surveys, and in Chile to develop an environmental monitoring platform for the mining industry.
Isi 2017 presentation on Big Data and biasPiet J.H. Daas
1) The document discusses three types of using big data in statistics: (1) combined with survey data, (2) from a single complete source, and (3) from a single incomplete source.
2) Examples of type 2 include road sensor traffic data and web-scraped price data. These sources completely cover their target populations.
3) Examples of type 3 include social media data and mobile phone data. Only part of the target population is included, so ways must be found to deal with the missing part, such as determining the characteristics of the included population.
Building Capacity for Intelligent Transportation Systems in Rural and Small M...RPO America
During the 2022 Transportation Research Board Tools of the Trade conference (August 29-31), NADO Associate Director Carrie Kissel shared the NADO Research Foundation's work on transportation technology case studies.
Indonesia has implemented several initiatives to expand ICT access across its thousands of islands. These include the Palapa Ring broadband fiber optic network to connect more regions, and mobile M-PLIK vehicles that provide affordable Internet access in rural areas. While these have increased connectivity, challenges remain in fully funding infrastructure and addressing issues like uneven resource distribution and software piracy. Lessons indicate that expanding broadband access can significantly increase economic growth, and that universal access is important for development.
A low cost method of real time pavement condition data sharing to expedite ma...UVision
A low cost method of real time pavement condition data sharing to expedite maintenance intervention
Pavements for roads in cities and highways are degraded with potholes, cracking, and rutting distresses. There is a strong need to identify these locations and sections with undesired longitudinal roughness quickly and accurately every year. Traditionally, expensive standalone survey vehicles for roughness measurements and more expensive multi-function vehicles are employed by highway agencies or through contract services, which most cities and local agencies can’t afford. The primary objective of this study is to describe a low cost method to collect essential pavement condition data and share real time to expedite maintenance intervention needs. This facilitates rapid identification of pavement sections with undesired longitudinal roughness and local defects. This paper discusses the impact of social media, crowd sourcing, and advances in cheaper accurate motion sensors and cloud server data processing. These tools make it possible to develop easy-to-use low cost methods, which are affordable by city public work and smaller road agencies.
Data, innovation & transformation in the public sectorAtkins
Atkins’ geospatial lead, Colin Henderson, gave a masterclass on how public sector organisations can use data in innovative ways to provide better services to the public. Colin presented two case studies on how innovative data analysis is being used to deliver cost effective broadband services in rural Scotland and how data is being used to understand and develop the Scottish ICT infrastructure.
This presentation was first delivered in June 2014 at One Public Sector Scotland in Edinburgh, UK.
Read more: http://atkinsglobal.com/en-GB/media-centre/events/atkins-lectures/2014/data-innovation-and-transformation-in-the-public-sector
With collaborations with various City divisions and private service providers (in this case Streetlight data providers), our North York mobility innovation team uncovered several surprising suburban travel behaviour, patterns and distributions of trips that lead to meaningful and quantitative multimodal mobility planning. This presentation is a summary of project experiences and describes the key findings.
CIR’s Events upcoming are always listed at http://www.hvm-uk.com Go there to plan your excellent networking and tech learning schedule!
CIR is proud to present the takeaways from the Smart Systems Summit 2014 at the prestigious Institute of Directors in Pall Mall, West London 1-2 October. This year's programme was truly excellent, with over 30 speakers.
smart, energy, grids, power, homes. transport, living, sensors, IOT, M2M, Industrial internet, technology, industry, markets, value, innovation, marketing, products, services, monetisation, growth, better
This document discusses research on transgender communities on Tumblr. It begins by outlining the research questions around what can be learned from trans youth networks and how trans data can inform theory. It then describes the methods used to analyze over 1 million posts from the #ftm and #mtf hashtags on Tumblr. Key findings include Tumblr serving as an archive of experiences, a source of medical knowledge, and a site for cultural production and identity exploration. The document argues for an approach to trans data that recognizes its situated nature and holds binaries in tension. It suggests trans theory can benefit from understanding lived experiences and recognizing manifold identities.
We had a rousing conversation about the merits of open access (#OA) during Open Access Week at Trinity College. My presentation focused on how I came into OA and the key resources that make a busy faculty member or graduate student's entrée into sharing their research publicly as part of the open education movement. See jgieseking.org for the complementary handout. After an introduction from our digital librarian Amy Harrell, I was joined by my colleagues Jack Doughtery in Urban Education Studies, and Charles Lebel in Language and Culture Studies in brief individual presentations followed by a conversation with our faculty.
This document summarizes Jen Jack Gieseking's presentation on queer spatial methods. It discusses using mixed qualitative and quantitative data to have conversations across datasets. It also discusses using multiple tools from digital humanities and social data sciences to allow for more expression. The presentation outlines using mental mapping, GIS, interactive online maps, and mixed analytics to hold tension between data. It provides a case study of mapping lesbian and queer women's spaces in New York City from 1983 to 2008. The goal is queer interventions in mapping that challenge norms.
"Personal/Political/Feminist Maps: Reflections on Spatial Methods for Action Research"
Talk given at Feminist Social Justice Conference, a Workshop on Participatory and Feminist Research Methods
March 16, 2015
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
In _The Practice of Everyday Life_, de Certeau writes that "What the map cuts up, the story cuts across." But what if the everyday stories you seek are already cut up by centuries of structural inequality and oppression, such as those of lesbians and queer women? In this talk I investigate what can be gained for the study of women’s lives and spaces by bringing together the isolated but overlapping stories of lesbians and queer women in maps, from the hand-drawn to the most technologically advanced and interactive. Drawing upon qualitative and quantitative work on lesbians' and queer women's spaces and economies in New York City from 1983 to 2008—including multi-generational focus groups and mental maps, archival research and GIS—I work through three different types of mapping methods and platforms within a participatory action research framework. Through a close analysis of mental maps and GIS maps created using QGIS and TileMill/Mapbox, I suggest that while the spatial and verbal can both obfuscate and illuminate understandings of everyday life. It is the queer practice of holding these seeming binaries in tension that reveals the most rich and complicated knowledge.
Digital Image of the City - Housing
Bowdoin College
Fall 2014
Annie Chen, Emma Chow, Jenny Ibsen, Eva Sibinga, Jackie Sullivan, Libby Szuflita
Presentation given on 12/10/14
Digital Image of the City - Housing
Bowdoin College
Fall 2014
Ben Miller, Peter Nauffts, Hannah Rafkin, Claudia Villar, Jonah Watt
Presentation given on 12/10/14
"Sustaining Difference during Gentrification: NYC & Berlin Since 2008"
Dr. Jen Jack Gieseking
Digital & Computational Studies
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, USA
BUKA 2010-2011, HU im Berlin
jgieseking.org
@jgieseking
Presentation from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Bundeskanzler-Stipendium (BUKA) / German Chancellor Fellowship Kolloquium in Sankt-Petersburg, Russia.
Do not cite, reprint, or quote this presentation without express permission of Dr. Jen Jack Gieseking.
The Digital Image of the City
Digital & Computational Studies
Bowdoin College
October 8, 2014
Professor Gieseking
Lecture Slides "Race, Ethnicity, Immigration"
The Digital Image of the City
Digital & Computational Studies
Bowdoin College
September 8, 2014
Professor Gieseking
Lecture Slides "An Introduction to The Digital Image of the City"
This document discusses the production of urban space and the concept of smart cities. It references works by James Merrill, Dolores Hayden, and Anthony Townsend on how space is produced and for whose benefit. Examples are provided of Hayden's work documenting spaces created by marginalized communities in East Harlem and Little Tokyo. The document also references a study visualizing taxi pickups and dropoffs in New York City. Readings by Debord, Bauman, and Lynch are assigned for an upcoming field trip, with a blog post due before the trip.
Ruben Martinez '16 is a student of Bowdoin College. He created this presentation as a part of the Data Driven Societies course (Spring 2014) taught by Drs. Gieseking and Gaze. His analysis draws upon one month of #wearable data scraped from Twitter in February of 2014.
Bowdoin College Digital Image of the City - Infrastructure (1)
1. Infrastructure 1
Ezra Duplissie-Cyr ‘15 | Rachel Barnes ‘15 | Luis Paniagua ‘16 | Ike May ‘15
Vivian Yang ‘15 | Kote Mushegian ‘17 | Mingo Sanchez ‘17
2. Areas for Improvement
1. Disaster and Weather Preparedness
• Forecasting and predictions
2. Transportation
• Access, expansion, reducing reliance on automobiles
3. Accessibility
• App for residents, public Wi-Fi, more computers
3. Early-Warning Weather System
1. Offshore sensors relaying
weather in real time
a. Online maps
b. Interactive inundation
warnings
2. Community resilience
data/plans
a. Increase forecasting accuracy
b. Improved data accessibility Map generated in ArcMap 10.2 -- Source: MEGIS Data Catalog, 2014
4. Flood Risks to the Elderly
Topography Elderly
US Census data, City of Portland 2014
City of Portland 2014
5. Cycling Accessibility
● High demand for cycling needs to be met
● Solution for yearlong
cycling: Heated bike lanes
● Benefits:
○ Reduce carbon
emissions
○ Reduce traffic
○ Increase parking
6. Generating Bus Data
● Metrobus loses
millions of dollars
every year[1]
● Some lines are very
long without many
stops
● Cannot track usage[2]
[map data] US Census Bureau; City of Portland, 2014. [1]National Department of
Transportation, 2012. [2]Greater Portland Transit District, “METRO Fares.”
7. Public Transportation
● Expanding public bus
system
○ More routes and stops in
areas around Portland
● Increasing reliability
and accessibility
○ Apps for wait times,
routes
[map data] Maine Office of GIS, City of Portland
8. Smart City System & App
● One system – front & back end
● Front for citizens, back for the city
● Accessible from variety of
devices
● Easy way of notifying
citizens of changes
● Great app for tourists
tamr.com
9. Making the Internet Accessible
● No public Wi-Fi
○ Call boxes can be made
into hotspots
● Many people don’t have
Internet access
○ Computer sharing program
in resource centers
Map data – City of Portland (2014); statistics from city-data.com (2011), time.com (2013)
10. ● NYC Wi-Fi hotspots will
reach up to 150 feet [1]
● Home Wi-Fi routers can
reach up to 300 feet
outdoors
[1] New York Times (2014)
11. Making the Internet Accessible
● No public Wi-Fi
○ Call boxes can be made
into hotspots
● Many people don’t have
Internet access
○ Computer sharing program
in resource centers
Map data – City of Portland (2014); statistics from city-data.com (2011), time.com (2013)
12. Areas for Improvement
1. Disaster and Weather Preparedness
• Forecasting and predictions
2. Transportation
• Access, expansion, reducing reliance on automobiles
3. Accessibility
• App for residents, public Wi-Fi, more computers