Traffic Radio as a Precursor to Smart Travel Planning Systems: The Challenge of Organizing “Collective Intelligence”

This paper depicts how a Swedish radio station organized a means of real-time information management to report on local traffic conditions long before the common use of the Internet. Drawing on a history of the Stockholm traffic radio staff the study examines particular conditions for organizing a service that may inform next generations of smart travel planning systems. The author notes how a vision of involving the public together with the use of increasingly mobile and interconnected communication devices provided the service with an opportunity for harnessing collective intelligence. The study highlights critical success factors and barriers for organizing collective intelligence and the importance they may have had for providing a real-time information service to the public.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2013.863439
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/25851022
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Taylor and Francis.
• Authors:
  • Cano Viktorsson, Carlos
• Publication Date: 2013-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Bibliography; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 43-55
• Serial:
  • Journal of Urban Technology
  • Volume: 20
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISSN: 1063-0732
  • EISSN: 1466-1853
  • Serial URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjut20/current

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Information systems; Infrastructure; Intelligent transportation systems; Radio stations; Real time information; Sustainable transportation
• Geographic Terms: Stockholm (Sweden)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01519929
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 26 2014 10:11AM