Urban Agents and Citizen Apps

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MIT – UIS Research SeminarOctober 13, 2010

Urban Agents & Citizen Apps Towards an Autonomous Interactive Urban Planning

Platform

Fabio CarreraWPI / MIT

Fabio

1961-1977

1978 -1988 (today)

1977-1978

1988 - 2008

1996 - 2004

2007 -

½ Ma

½ Ve

½ SFe

Academic Interests

Venice Project CenterCity Knowledge/City LabSanta Fe Project Center

Academic Interests

Venice Project CenterCity Knowledge/City LabSanta Fe Project Center

Venice Project Center

•Founded in 1988•500+ alumni•125+ projects•10+ Awards•15+ Major media stories

Venice 2.0

•Web page•Blog•Venipedia (wiki)•Alumni Network (ning)•Project Repository (Dspace)

venice2point0.org

Web site

Venice2point0.blogspot.com

Blog

venipedia.org

Wiki

10/2003

8/1999

9/2002

8/2003 9/20039/2005

Worldwide Recognition

Channel: National Geographic VideoSeries Title: Out There Program Title: City under SiegeAired around the world: 2002-today

National Geographic Video

Academic Interests

Venice Project CenterCity Knowledge/City LabSanta Fe Project Center

City Knowledge

transforming municipalities

from hunter-gatherers

to farmers of urban information

Premises of CK Municipalities are the locus of change Cities = Structures + Activities Reality = Backlog + Future Change Middle-out = Top-down + Bottom-up Space Is the Glue Government only has 6 tools for

implementation and data collection

Principles of CK Use all 6 tools when making policies Extract Informational returns everywhere Re-use Information Put onus on “agents of change” Leverage self-interest

Academic Interests

Venice Project CenterCity Knowledge/City LabSanta Fe Project Center

Santa Fe Project Center

Santa Fe Institute (WPI Connection) Steve Guerin and Redfish Santa Fe Complex WPI Santa Fe Project Center

Josh Thorp, stigmergic.net

Flocking and swarming

A Simple Agent

Repel

Attract

Repel

Ants and Pheromones

Crowd dynamics

Zozobra crowd dynamics

Pedestrian evacuations

Crowd Egress from Pittsburgh’s PNC Park

Wildfire modeling

Grants and Projects

Venice Simtable (EU Mobilis)EnergenceDEW (NASA)StreetBump

Grants and Projects

Venice Simtable (EU Mobilis)EnergenceDEW (NASA)StreetBump

ABM and Venice Boat Traffic

Canal Logistics Venice, Italy

Grants and Projects

Venice Simtable (EU Mobilis)EnergenceDEW (NASA)StreetBump

Energence

Grants and Projects

Venice Simtable (EU Mobilis)EnergenceDEW (NASA)StreetBump

Digital Earth Watch

NASA

CitizenPipe

CityZapps

Grants and Projects

Venice Simtable (EU Mobilis)EnergenceDEW (NASA)StreetBump

Ambient Urban Platform

CloudsourcingMobile/Automated SensingModeling and visualizationParticipatory decision-makingAgents Cloud?

Ambient Urban Platform

CloudsourcingMobile/Automated SensingModeling and visualizationParticipatory decision-makingAgents Cloud?

GISCloud

The “Google Docs” of GISPrivate, Public or Shared MapsServe and/or EmbedGIS functionalities and APIsDino Ravnic + Marko Santic

Ambient Urban Platform

CloudsourcingMobile/Automated SensingModeling and visualizationParticipatory decision-makingAgents Cloud?

Cloudsourcing w/Mobile Apps

Straight-to-cloud data collection

StreetSigns (GIScloud)

StreetBUMP

DEW

ButONE

Taxi

Parking

StreetSigns

For Cities and Citizens…

StreetBUMP

Self-interested subliminal cloudsourcing…

Digital Earth Watch

Capture urban change…

ButOne

CityZapps

VeniceTaxi App

CityZapps

VeniceTaxi Meter

CityZapps

Park and Pay

CityZapps

Ambient Urban Platform

CloudsourcingMobile/Automated SensingModeling and visualizationParticipatory decision-makingAgents Cloud?

PublicTransportation

DC Metro Subway

Traffic

Traffic Behavior

DEW (NASA)Bump

Pedestrians

Sensor Harvesting

Ambient Urban Platform

CloudsourcingMobile/Automated SensingModeling and visualizationParticipatory decision-makingAgents Cloud?

Ambient Urban Platform

CloudsourcingMobile/Automated SensingModeling and visualizationParticipatory decision-makingAgents Cloud?

Autonomous Urban Agents

Mobile agents (Venice Table)

Structure agents (PubSubHubbub?)

Birth Certificates (Energence)

A new paradigm?

How?

CitizenPipe 2.0A

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Urban AssetsBehaviors

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Fabio Carreracarrera@wpi.eduvenice2point0.blogspot.comvenice2point0.orgwww.wpi.edu/~carrera

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