1. Open Data
…driving smart mobility across Europe
Susie Ruston McAleer
Managing Partner, 21c
Bologna 2014
@21cSusie
susie@21cConsultancy.com
www.21cConsultancy.com
2. According
to the M.I.T.
90% of
global
population
growth
80% of
wealth
creation
60% of
energy
consumption
WILL BE
CONCENTRATED IN
CITIES
THE CENTURY OF CITIES
18. OpenTransportNet Pilot Cities
ANTWERP – Infrastructure Maintenance
Better management of road works in the city
LIBEREC – Crisis Management
Traffic management solution for crisis situations
BIRMINGHAM – Road Safety
Increase road safety within the city
ISSY – Planning
Relieve traffic congestion during peak hours
Pike Research has coined a new term - the Smart City Operating System (SCOS) - which is not a single technical solution but a conception of the city as a “platform of platforms,”
It is a conception of the Smart City that what engineering consultancy Arup calls an “urban information architecture.”
The City as a Platform is a practical, relatively easy to implement approach to Smart City that draws together diverse and ubiquitous systems, rather than requiring a city to start over.
Also known as geospatial data
it is the data or information that identifies the geographic location of features and boundaries on Earth, such as natural or constructed features, oceans, and more.
Spatial data is usually stored as coordinates and topology, and is data that can be mapped.
Spatial data is often accessed, manipulated or analyzed through Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Source: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/spatial_data.html
The ubiquity of smart phones and social media combined with the rapid advance of ever cheaper and easier to use technologies has unleashed a range of innovative new applications and services that can make our cities smarter and better places to live and work......
The increasing availability of open Geographic Information (GI) data presents a strong opportunity for European Private and Public stakeholders, especially SMEs, to extract extra value from OD due to the fact that a vast amount of information has direct or indirect spatial references that open up exiting new ways of interpreting it.
At present, the true innovative potential of GI data in Europe is hindered by the fact that access to GI data remains limited in many European countries.
SMES, are one of the strongest potential sources of GI Data innovation and yet often lack the time and resources to collect their own GI data let alone find this data amidst the massive variety of existing sources.
These limitations mean many of the applications currently developed by non-GI experts are predominantly based on relatively easy Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and accessible data sources from large private technology providers such as Google.
As a result, Europe is confronted with a potential monopoly of a few large commercial vendors at the expense of its most valuable source of home grown innovation – its SMEs
Data Challenge: Harmonise GI and open data from a wide variety of sources
Technology Challenge: Combine GI and open data to extract new information and insights
Innovation Challenge: Provide tools and skills for using GI and LBS in rapid service creation
The transport industry directly employs approx.
10m people and accounts for about 5% GDP. Q
uality of transport services has a major impact on quality of lives.
Average household spends 13.2% budget on transport goods/services
Accessing Data: Harmonise GI and open data from a wide variety of sources
Analysis via Technology : Combine GI and open data to extract new information and insights
Drive Innovation: Provide tools and skills for using GI and LBS in rapid service creation
Create collaborative virtual hubs that aggregate, harmonise and visualise Transport-related Data to make it easier for innovators to create new services and applications