Download - 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 | [email protected] | @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 | [email protected] | @carstenkessler
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