A dynamic, web-based visualisation of hourly traffic volumes, taking into account roadworks in the city, developed by the Plan4all association for the city of Plzen, Czechia.
2. The Pilsen problem? Traffic …
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… and multiple
road works
3. Intense traffic in the rush hours
No coordination of road works planning
-->Multiple overlapping road works
(different organisations involved)
Citizens not well informed about road
closures
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Situation in Pilsen
4. A year ago: first prototype (OTN)
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Planned road
closure
Major detours
Amount of cars
per street segment
/ hour
7. Currently 10 major road works in the
city included in the traffic modelling
Regular quarterly re-calculation to
reflect current situation
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Major city roadworks included
8. City divided in 180 ’traffic generators’ (urban
zones, office districts, shopping malls, industrial zones,
university campus, schools)
Origin-destination matrix calculates the counts
of vehicles among all traffic generators in the city
Vehicles amounts assigned to the road network
Fastest route and the capacity of streets taken
into account
Subsequent calibration by street measurements
(sensors and manual)
Daily and hourly traffic volume coefficients
application
Data published as WMS-t
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Traffic Modelling Methodology
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Dynamic Visualisation of Traffic
Traffic
animation
per hour
Date selection
Overview of
ongoing
roadworks
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Road Segment and Road Work Details
Amount of cars per hour
Traffic intensity level
Roadwork details (scope,
duration, detour)
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Traffic intensity levels
Traffic intensity levels according to the
commonly used scale
12. ‘Gantt-chart-like‘ overview of road works
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Interactive Timeline
13. A static traffic model of the city brought to
the public in an open, web-based,
interactive form
Citizens receive regularly updated
information about the road works in the
city
Prediction of traffic situation – this is what
Google, Waze and others do not have!
City can better coordinate planned works
Data available for further use in other
domains – e.g. marketing & advertising,
noise and emission calculation, real-estate
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Benefits
15. Title: Policy Development based on
Advanced Geospatial Data
Analytics and Visualisation
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Next? PoliVisu Project
Duration Nov 2017 – Oct 2020
Financed under H2020
15 partners from all over
Europe
Solutions verified in three
pilots: Ghent, Pilsen, Paris
(Issy-les-Moulineaux)
16. Automated traffic model
recalculation (close to real-time)
Using parallel cloud computing and
distributed server infrastructure (e.g.
AWS)
Use of road sensor data and Waze data
for the traffic model improvement and
calibration
Short–term (few hours) traffic
prediction based on current traffic
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Traffic volumes in PoliVisu: Goal
Wireframes of the new GUI - Development April-June 2017
Traffic volume calculation methodology
The application predicts the traffic volume on a selected day and hour based on the traffic model of the city and currently ongoing roadworks. The calculated traffic volume is calibrated by the street measurements.
The traffic model is based on a matrix that calculates the number of vehicles travelling between every two of approx. 180 'traffic generators' located in the city e.g.: urban zones, office districts, shopping malls, industrial zones, university campus, schools etc. The roadworks ongoing on the selected date are taken into account in the calculation as well. After the matrix calculation the counts of vehicles among all the traffic generators are portrayed on the road network, while the ideal (fastest) route together with the capacity of streets and crossroads is taken into account. The resulting traffic volume is subsequently calibrated by the street measurements of vehicles counts at selected locations. In order to display the traffic volume in the dynamic web application, the colour scheme of five colours (from green to red) is used to represent the traffic volume, matching the five traffic volume levels used by the Police (see the Legend). The figures displayed on the road segments represent the expected amount of vehicles on the street per hour.
The web application consumes the data in the form of a WMS-t web map service (see specification, annex D).
https://intenzitadopravy.plzen.eu/
English version available at http://opentransportmap.info/plzen/
‘Gantt-chart-like‘ overview of road works published in the web app
Details on each of the road works provided below
the close-to-real-time traffic model recalculation requires a significant computing power which has not been available until recently. However, the recent availability of distributed server infrastructure and parallel cloud computing technologies (e.g. the Amazon web services), and the research of the MapReduce programming model done by the PoliVisu team allows to perform such big data calculation in almost real-time which makes it usable for these web applications