A General Approach to Exploit Available Traffic Data for a Smarter City

Traffic is an important indicator of a city’s health. Presence of traffic indicates movement of people and goods, and thus economic vitality. However, if left unchecked, excess traffic leads to congestion that results in wasted time and fuel, impacts the environment through increased emissions and negatively affects the qualify of life for citizens. To manage a city’s transportation and environmental goals effectively, accurate data is required – beginning with basic information such as counting traffic passing on a street. In this article, the authors present a general approach for collecting traffic data from a multitude of sources, organizing that data for consumption by multiple parties and exploiting the data productively by many diverse users. They illustrate this approach with a case study in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract used with permission of ITS Japan. Paper No. 3902.
• Corporate Authors:

  ITS Japan

  Tokyo,   Japan 
• Authors:
  • Srivastava, Biplav
  • Rudy, Raymond
  • XU, Jane
  • Miller, Brent
  • Giacomel, Alberto
  • Wysmuller, Steven
  • Gupta, Vineet
  • Jacob, Nigel
  • Osgood, Chris
  • Parker, Kevin
  • Gately, Conor
  • Hutyra, Lucy
• Conference:
  • 20th ITS World Congress
  • Location: Tokyo , Japan
  • Date: 2013-10-14 to 2013-10-18
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 10p
• Monograph Title: 20th ITS World Congress, Tokyo 2013. Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Intelligent transportation systems; Traffic counting; Traffic data
• Geographic Terms: Boston (Massachusetts)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01539507
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9784990493981
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 29 2014 10:02AM