the envirocar platform: a decentralized approach to monitoring urban traffic and emissions

THE ENVIROCAR PLATFORM A DECENTRALIZED APPROACH TO MONITORING URBAN TRAFFIC & EMISSIONS

Carsten Kessler Department of Geography | Center for Advanced Research of Spatial Information | Hunter College, CUNY

carsten.io | carsten.kessler@hunter.cuny.edu | @carstenkessler

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• Open source geospatial software

company and R&D network

• Shareholders: European universities

and companies, incl. ESRI

• Strong engagement in OGC and

FOSS4G community

• Citizen science platform for collecting

vehicle-borne sensor data

• Uses smartphone and OBD-II adapter

• GPS Information from enviroCar app

• Stores fuel consumption and CO2 emissions

envirocar.org

@envirocar_org

github.com/enviroCar

BENEFITS

• Users:

• learn something about their driving behavior

• potential to reduce fuel consumption

• Planners, decision makers, researchers:

• (potentially) large pool of traffic and emissions data

• detection of environmental/traffic problems

Environmental Monitoring

Hotspots and the impact of urban form on emissions

OPPORTUNITIES

• Data is publicly available in

various formats

• Can analyze for stops, idling,

congestion, speedbumps, …

• Goal: Create a traffic dataset

that can be used for more

informed decision making and

planning

CO2 HOTSPOT ANALYSIS

CITIZEN SCIENCE

• Data is crowd-sourced,

anonymized, and published

in various data formats

• Goal: Continuous coverage!

Taxi Pickups and Drop-offs

THANK YOU!

Carsten Kessler Department of Geography | Center for Advanced Research of Spatial Information | Hunter College, CUNY

carsten.io | carsten.kessler@hunter.cuny.edu | @carstenkessler

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