[Ica-osgeo-labs] [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Technologies and Open Data in ITS

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Steve and Vicky,

Howdy! We are trying to encourage a kind of collaboration between cities of the world to more collectively solve urban management issues. Given the need to 'see' geospatial data, and 'feel' it to calculate fuel consumption, construction, flooding, and other safety related issues, we would like to get these urban management functionalities into a virtual globe. The idea is that cities would then share the  various functionalities built by the different cities. This is the purpose of the Europa Challenge for OpenCitySmart, http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/. Please enter with your wonderful solution to "vehicle routing problems."

[Formal text description]

A population explosion is occurring simultaneous with a massive shift of people moving from rural to urban living. In 1950 at a mere 2.5 billion, we were almost evenly distributed between rural and urban areas. Today we have a global population three times that of 1950, and 80% of the developed world now live in cities. 

Our home planet, Earth, must now be wisely cared for if we are to address this exponentially growing problem. Adding to these issues, each year we are consuming 1.5x Earth’s sustainable resources. This cannot continue. The cities of the world must begin to seriously address the issue of sustainable living. If we can work collaboratively to solve these problems, we will all benefit from sharing our best ideas.

This collective problem solving and sharing of solutions will also help us better appreciate our common needs and similar aspirations. In the session open platforms and geospatial tools for building these sustainable living solutions will be presented. These applications, which will contribute to an "OpenCitySmart" will provide the functionalities a city needs to smartly manage urban living, i.e., infrastructure, power, water, sewer, etcetera, transportation, city services, fire, safety, construction, permits, everything a city needs, even support for optimizing agriculture. https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart 

Kinid regards,
-Patrick
 (650) 604-5656 (office)
 (650) 269-2788 (cell)

-----Original Message-----
From: ica-osgeo-labs [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand
Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2016 2:50 AM
To: Stephen Woodbridge; OSGeo Discussions; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Cc: Fernando Pacheco; Vicky Vergara
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Technologies and Open Data in ITS

Hi Steve,

Many thanks for this information. Greatly appreciated.

Best wishes,
Suchith
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From: Stephen Woodbridge [woodbri at swoodbridge.com]
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2016 1:10 AM
To: Suchith Anand; OSGeo Discussions; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Cc: Vicky Vergara; Fernando Pacheco
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Technologies and Open Data in ITS

Hi Suchith,

Vicky Vergara and I developed a vehicle routing problem solver as part of a city wide trash collection planning system that Ingesur developed for the city of Montevideo UY. Our repository is here:

https://github.com/woodbri/vehicle-routing-problems/tree/release-v5

This is an interesting problem because we linked ORSM into our solver code and used OSM data for the street network data. We worked extensively with Ingesur and they were an excellent partner in this project (I've cc'd Fernando @ Ingesur). This solver deals with many real world issues, like container and truck volume limits, pickup time windows, some trucks that can only pickup containers on the right side of the vehicle, trucks can not make u-turns at containers on streets, etc.

We looked at using pgRouting and OSRM for computing routes and picked OSRM for performance and the fact that this was easiest for the clients to update the street network as needed and then to reload OSM into OSRM.

We integrated the functionality in to postgresql as an extension, but I believe the final solution actually ended up using a command line interface that we used to develop the code under.

Anyway, if you have additional questions, we would be happy to address them.

Best regards,
   -Steve

On 1/17/2016 1:46 PM, Suchith Anand wrote:
This is a request for help from those who are working in Intelligent Transport Systems area. I am currently on a secondment to Transport Systems Catapult [1] from the University of Nottingham and as part of my research , one aspect i am looking into is the impact of Open Technologies and Open Data in ITS in accelerating innovation opportunities.

I will appreciate if anyone who is working in ITS (Transport planners, City governments) esp. using Open Technologies and Open Data (examples from across the world are welcome )  if they can please email  me at Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk on their project details (if you can send me the websites of the project  or links to various open datasets that you are using etc.), it will be greatly appreciated and very helpful for my research.

Thanks again for your kind help on this matter.

Best wishes,
Suchith

[1]  https://ts.catapult.org.uk/