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Kleinfelder Proprietary
Agile Traffic Reporting During
Construction: A Public Relations Solution Integrating GIS
and Waze
Berkley Myers, GISP Eastern Region GIS Team Lead
Hanover, MD
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Overview
• Cambridge, MA
• Alewife Project and details
• The Challenge: Real-time Traffic
• Integrating GIS with Waze
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• Discussion and Questions
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Who is Kleinfelder?
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City of Cambridge Massachusetts
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Alewife Project AreaMedium-density urban neighborhood
• 8000 residents; 650 acres; 2500 buildings
• Residential with two business districts
One-way street network
Limited parking
Regional Commuter Arteryhttp://www.cambridgema.gov/~/media/Files/CDD/FactsandMaps/profiles/demo_profile_neighborhood_2013.pdf
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Alewife Project Area
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Alewife CSO Separation Project
Boston Harbor Cleanup federally mandated sewer separation
• 30 years of planning
• 35 Project areas
• $900 million
Alewife Neighborhood Project• 5 construction contracts over 5
years
• Last 3 contracts executed concurrently
• Completion end of 2017
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Alewife Project Area
Goal: Sewer separation to eliminate CSOs
Project Area
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Cambridge DPW Scope
7.5 miles (12km)
street paving and
curbing
40,000 feet (12km)
sewer separation piping
300+ street trees
31,300 feet (9.5km)
natural gas mains
33,000+ feet (10km)
water mains
15 miles (24km) of
sidewalk
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Kleinfelder’s Role
On-site Construction
Oversight
Traffic Management
Community Relations Support
Traffic Signage Checks
Police Detail
Locations
Traffic Impact
Information
Traffic Change Updates
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The Challenge: Real-time Traffic
• Residents frustration about driving through the construction area
• 3,000+ logged community comments to date
• Complaints often escalated to leadership
• resulted in negative project publicity
• Kleinfelder/City of Cambridge • First real-time traffic data feed management on Waze
• Waze Connected Citizens Program (CCP)• Partners Gov’t with Waze to share traffic information
• Solved many of the community concerns
• Nearly 2 years since implementation
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The Challenge: Real-time TrafficAgility
• Dynamic project conditions
• Need accurate information
Communication
• City committed to community relations
• Significant impact on residents daily lives
Management Logistics
• “I don’t have time for any extra work”
• Daily closures are not scheduled
• Closure details change
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Potential Solutions
Posting weekly work schedule on
project website
GIS mapping contractor’s
required schedule submittals
GIS mapping
the permit database
Waze CCP:
Real-Time Closure
Pilot
DPW Commissioner:
“…get it on Google
maps or something?”
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Real-time Traffic Reporting
NeighborhoodResidents
Regional Commuters
Collector ArcGIS Server
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Real-time Traffic Reporting
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BEFORE - Waze and Data Feed…
Hello?..
User input of closures not widely
in use for this area
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AFTER - Putting Waze to Work!
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50
100
150
200
App Stats
Construction Closures
Winter
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Lessons Learned
Data feed and debugging
• https:// Compatibility Issue
• Daily monitoring
• Geometry Differences
• Waze Data Feed Interpretation
• Public “Wazer” Input
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Geometry DifferencesGIS Street Centerline
Data
Waze Community Street
Datavs
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Data Feed Interpretation
Esri Collector
App
Interpreted Json
Data Feed
Waze Live Map
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Waze Interpretation
Feature Service: Data Feed Waze Live Map
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Wazer Input help stay accurate
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Public OutreachAlewife Sewer Separation Project – Keeping Cambridge residents
informed about construction with innovative outreach, 3D technology, and Waze
“The app has been super handy
for guiding me around the tiny
one-way streets of west
Cambridge and helps users to
detour around
any traffic or ongoing
construction.”
– Cambridge resident
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Public OutreachMIT Museum: Mapapalooza! – Kleinfelder using GIS to help the
community understand public transportation
Aaron Doucett
utilizing GIS
technology to help
residents track the
walking distance to
and from any public
transportation station
in the Boston area
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Findings and Lessons Learned
Establish partnerships and public outreach early
• Reduce negative backlash and gain communication avenues
Technology adopters become proponents
• Organized 25 crews with, equipment, detour directions, and
proper road closures
• Make it as easy as possible or they wont adopt
Technology focused drivers
• “I see the road closed sign but the phone says the road is
open”.
Ride sharing (Uber and Lyft)
• Increased drivers unfamiliar with local traffic patterns
• Open data feeds can be used by other apps
