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Gulf Region ITS 2016 Social Media and Traffic Management
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Introduction Jim O‘Neill
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Business Summary
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Founded in 1992 by Hagen Geppert and Dr. Karl Will.
Corporations in Germany, USA, and Singapore.
Headquarters in Bernburg (Germany).
Offices in USA, Singapore, and UK.
Certified by ISO 9001:2001 since 1998.
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Global Perspective
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GEWI Markets
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Solution designed for all market requirements
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Selected Customers
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Social Media Identified on TT Tour Sept 2015
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Traffic Technologies Tour Purpose:
Information exchange with public agencies in USA.
Capturing problems, trends, solutions, ideas.
Part of GEWI product development process.
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Transportation Technology Tour Sept 2015
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Visited:
District offices – city coverage.
Statewide agency.
Multi-state agency.
Social Media:
All using social media/crowd sourced data to some degree.
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Evolution of Crowd Sourced Data
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Passive:
Floating car data.
Toll tags.
Cell triangulation.
GPS.
Bluetooth.
Magnetic signature.
Traffic cameras
Active:
Social/App based.
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Data Integration Challenges
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Location referencing.
Data quality. (accuracy/duplicates).
Data format (event codes, data mapping).
Harmonize and exchange data with other systems.
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Twitter and Traffic
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Most agencies now “Tweet”:
By roadway.
By county.
Efficient distribution to media.
Fewer agencies use Twitter as a data source.
Challenging to integrate data into traffic management centers.
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Integrating Tweets and Traffic
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Filter relevant tweets
Incident and location
referencing
Presented to Operator as
Project
Distributed to web, apps
and systems
Data verified and
harmonized
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Waze and Traffic Management
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Waze
- Has location referencing
- Incident data.
- Speed data.
- Double parking data. “hot zones”.
- Police activity.
- Confidence factor rating 1-10.
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Waze Data Integration
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Data collected
and “related”
Presented to Operator as Project
Distributed to web, apps
systems and Waze
Data verified, corrected &
updated
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Social Data and Road Incident Management
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Monitor
Detect
Verify
Inform
Respond
Clear
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Social Media - Detect
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Data can be collected and analyzed.
Data meeting certain criteria conditions can be presented to operators:
As new incident project.
As an update to an existing incident project.
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Social Media - Verify
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Data with a location can be verified using the “relation” window:
Other incident data.
Cameras.
Speed.
Weather.
Incorrect data can be “muted”.
Data quality feedback loop is possible.
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Using Twitter to Inform
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As Traffic & Travel Information is created, tweets can be automatically or manually created.
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Using Waze to Inform
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As Traffic & Travel Information is created, updated information is automatically distributed to Waze for all their users.
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Social / Crowdsourced Data Considerations
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Crowdsourced incident/speed data
Data not curated.
May suggest non-preferred alternates.
Users can “manipulate” alternates.
DOT can benefit from data exchange.
Use tools to relate/verify data.
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Conclusions
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Social media is already playing a role in traffic management.
• Early warning of traffic events.
• Efficient distribution method.
• Can assist in verifying incidents.
Crowdsourced data has benefits for detection / verification.
Location referencing may be an issue.
Curation of user generated data is critical.
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Questions?
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