MAKING CITIES MORE SUSTAINABLE: USING BIG AND CONTINUOUS DATA TO UNDERSTAND URBAN MOBILITY AND CONGESTIONS
Research Project, 2017 – 2019

This proposal is organized around two big ideas: 1) explore the potential expressive analysis of the continuous and large amounts of information sensed in urban environments can boost the understanding of human mobility patterns in urban cities; 2) enhance access data and knowledge to citizens, stakeholders and researchers to improve their ability to utilize live information that will help achieve social, economic and environmental sustainability in cities. Two projects will be conducted: we will explore the validity and analytical strength of using geotagged social media data for understanding urban activity and mobility pattern. In the second project, we will leverage state-of-the-art analytics to observe, alert, predict and share live congestion information associated with traffic incidents in urban cities. The proposal seeks to improve the education of next generation urban experts across disciplines within and beyond the research network, and engage stakeholders to accelerate the transfer of promising knowledge and innovations. The study of using big data to characterize mobility patterns of cities is by itself a discovery process regarding the validity, strengths and weaknesses, and the kind of questions suitable with the data and methodology. By joining the different research participants’ expertise and leveraging big data and state-of-the-art streaming analytics, this project will significantly advance state-of-the-art urban mobility and congestion applications.

Participants

Sonia Yeh (contact)

Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Physical Resource Theory

Vincenzo Massimiliano Gulisano

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Networks and Systems (Chalmers)

Marina Papatriantafilou

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Networks and Systems (Chalmers)

Funding

Formas

Project ID: 2016-01326
Funding Chalmers participation during 2017–2019

Related Areas of Advance and Infrastructure

Information and Communication Technology

Areas of Advance

Sustainable development

Driving Forces

Transport

Areas of Advance

Publications

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Latest update

2018-04-28