Open data, innovative apps,

crowdsourcing and

feedback in Rome

Damiano Morosi & Fabio Nussio

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The Mobility Agency role

Rome Mobility Agency - Planning, Regulating and

Controlling Mobility (Public &

Private);

- Permits and user contacts;

- Development of new mobility

projects;

- ITS tools, infomobility &

Mobility Centre;

- Management of Sustainable

Mobility Policies

Municipality of Rome

Municipal Area 1.285 skm

Population

Metr. Area 4.500.000

City residents 2.800.000

Road Network km 5.000 Main road network km. 800

Vehicles 2.650.000

cars 1.890.000

2 wheels 600.000

goods delivery 160.000

Daily Trips 6.100.000

Main City characteristics

• The historic and cultural heritage

• Narrow and not modifiable roads

• The status of Italian Capital City

• The inner presence of the Vatican City

• The Attitude (85 vehicles/100 citizens)

• The Tourists (>23 millions per year)

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The SUMP & CIVITAS Approach: Guidelines for Roma Capitale Administration

Based on infrastructure development & Short-term measures to reconnect the city,

reduce the use of private vehicles (car & motorbikes), to improve environment

Large technical & political table: Approval in 2009-10 of Rome SUMP - Sustainable

(Urban) Mobility Strategic Plan to be now updated by new PGTU

CO2 emissions in Rome – Mobility Sector – period 2001 – 2023

Learning from European co-operation on Sustainable Mobility

Financial crisis: limit to resources, in particular on Mass Rapid Transport System

New Administration is pushing short term action towards sustainable mobility,

ITS & infomobility as well as new pedestrian area and soft modes (byke and car-

sharing schemes, eco-freight and safety projects,..)

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New Infrastructures & coordinated strategies

A. Infrastructure development. Mass Rapid Transport System Expansion Underground and Urban Railways, new

tramway system.

Completion of the road system as well as PT priority, parking management and

park&ride improvements

B. Short-term action strategies: soft measures with no specific law and

execution of low/medium impact Implementation of City Districts Traffic Plan

Reorganization of surface Public Transport, tram network & corridors of mobility

Strong action and Plan for Urban Road Safety;

Second level services for sustainable mobility: car & bike sharing, electric and

micro-mobility, pedestrian zones

Actions for the Old Town

Better and more environmental distribution of goods

More Technologies and ITS: Infomobility for citizens and

tourists

Sistems & Technologies

Mobility Center

of Rome

The Mobility Center, located in Roma Servizi della

Mobilità and set-up in year 2000 for the Holy Jubilee

is the heart of an integrated system, which has the

main functions of monitoring, controlling &

management of the urban traffic, together with

process and fining management as well as

diffusing traffic information.

The Center then puts together a series of

subsystems, each dedicated to the performance of

specific functions of monitoring and / or regulation of

traffic flows.

The Mobility Center today – facts & figures

Monitoring,

Controlling

Management

Infomobility

Sanctioning &

fining

Variable message signs (VMS)

UTT (Urban Travel Times)

Electronic poles of bus stop

muoversiaroma.it - mobile

E-gates for Limited Traffic Zones

& Pre-signalling signs

E-gates for PT bus lanes

Fotored

Vistared

Velox

Safety Tutor

Video surveillance cameras

Traffic Measurement Stations

Traffic lights

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ITS – The Mobility Control Center

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Videowall

ITS – The Mobility Control Center

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ITS – The Mobility Control Center

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Infomobility

Web app available at muovi.roma.it,

compatible with all mobile phones

Profiling: Users can register and save their

preferences

Real-time services: news, times and bus

routes, journey times, seeking dynamic routing

for public transport

Beyond 40.000 unique visitors per day

Beyond 300.000 pages seen every day

Website optimized for use by mobile phone.

Within the site all the information from the various

systems of the Mobility Center are collected and

published: from raw data to the service to the

citizen.

www.muovi.roma.it

http://muoversiaroma.it

http://muovi.roma.it (mobile)

ITS – The Mobility Control Center

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Backends

ITS – The Mobility Control Center

• The mobility control centre should take real time decisions based on

the real time data we have

• We are building an evolved interface that will allow the MCC

operators to interact with all the systems (PMV, semaphores, …)

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Image courtesy of

Sistema ITS

ITS – The whole picture

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INFOMOBILITY DATA STREAM

MOBILE APP JOURNEY PLANNER SOCIAL NETWORK OPEN SERVICESOPEN DATAADVANCED SERVICES

SANCTIONING SYSTEMS (LTZS)

FCD SEMAPHORES MONITORING

DATA FUSION

ADVANCED USER INTERFACE

FORECAST CONTROLBUSINESS

INTELLIGENCE

EVENTS

STATIC DATA

Open data

• By the end of 2013, the Agency will release to the public a

Developers Portal, inside the new corporate web site

• In this portal, both developers and citizens will find static and real

time data (the kind of license under which we’ll publish data is yet to

be decided, probably CC-BY)

• Sections provided:

• (a selection of) XML real time services

• Static set of data

• HTML widgets to be included on other websites

• Source code (GPL v3)

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Open data

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Open data & Stats

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Public data

Free for everyone

Basic services

Free under a fair use

Advanced services

Premium, paid services

Total monthly access to XML services

Input data for the platform

• AVM raw signals (positioning and events) are available for all the

buses and schoolbuses in Rome (no underground, no tramways)

• RMA Car sharing fleet FCD (about 140 vehicles) plus private cars

FCD (about 1200 vehicles)

• UTT (Urban Travel Times) estimating travel times for private cars on

about 140 Km of roads

• The near future: using feedbacks from users and crowd generated

data (PETRA EU funded project)

Private and public transit data going together Data fusion

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Data fusion – an example

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Forecasts

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Images courtesy of Sistema ITS

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Mobile app

• Actually XHTML site at

muoversiaroma.it or

muovi.roma.it

• App and HTML5 soon available

for iOS/Android/WP8

• Position-aware functionalities

• Crowdsourced data

• New services: mobile ticketing

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Mobile app: some stats (2013)

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Visits

Social Networks

• Since 1 year, muoversiaroma.it is

on Facebok and Twitter

• On Facebook page about

4.100 «Likes», we talk about

all the Agency activities with

our users (including

infomobility), discussing on

the innovations we make

• On Twitter about 14.600

«followers», we use Twitter

mostly for infomobility due to

its agility

• Every 2 weeks the social

networks team meet the

developers on what’s next

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Collective intelligence & PETRA: using

feedbacks in journey planning

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• A possible approach in problem solving: one big highly sophisticated

algorithm on one big powerful infrastructure

• Our choose: many «simpler» solutions working together,

decentralizing decisions and using data from users

• Example 1: using customers most common trip requests to

determine a general origin-destination matrix (optimization)

• Example 2: using comments on social networks to determine

critical situations on the network

• Example 3: using customers and their feedbacks as sensors

while they are on-trip

Thank you for your attention!

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Questions?

Ask to me or write to

damiano.morosi@agenziamobilita.roma.it

Ing. Fabio Nussio

Responsible of International Cooperation

Roma Servizi per la Mobilità - Service Mobility

Agency for the City of Rome

Fabio.nussio@agenziamobilita.roma.it

Ing. Damiano Morosi

Mobility Center – Development & Innovation

Roma Servizi per la Mobilità - Service Mobility

Agency for the City of Rome

Damiano.morosi@agenziamobilita.roma.it