Smart traffic and logistics are based on a good digital model and situational awareness all over the city. A vast amount of traffic data is available, but it is often siloed, stored in different places and difficult to use.
Tampere has an Open data portal for various data sets. ITS Factory Wiki pages are a developer oriented versatile source of Tampere related transport data and applications. These Data Theme pages gives some background and help to navigate and find the best available data sets.
Here we discuss from Tampere perspective about complex data sources and data sets for transport and smart cities. Data is also subject to changing legislation in which the ITS Directive and the delegated regulations under it have a significant impact. Directives such as SRTI, RTTI, MMTIS and AFIR define a wide range of data types that are needed to meet targets of traffic safety, flow and sustainability. Tampere has also acquired a special study exploring the new ITS data related requirements and the data availability.
Transport data spaces play a key role, as they provide a digital infrastructure through which different data sources are interconnected. Such spaces can be used to improve traffic management, predictability and responsiveness.
Camera, sensors, mobile phone, Floating Car Data and other data solutions collected from vehicles bring new dimensions to traffic analysis, enabling the use of real-time traffic data. Data sources for public transport and taxis also provide valuable information on the performance and bottlenecks of the transport system.
IoT, or the Internet of Things, is an essential part of collecting traffic data, such as monitoring traffic volumes and parking space. IoT platforms enable a large, networked environment where sensors and data points can be used to make accurate analyses and predictions.
Taking data protection and ethical issues into account is important in the collection and use of data, as privacy protection is a key factor in the acceptability and effectiveness of smart city solutions.
These Theme pages provide an overview of traffic and smart city data sources in Tampere and at the same time help users to make better use of the ITS Factory Wiki site, which provides information and interfaces for developers to use. Clear understanding what, where and how transport data is available in Tampere will also improve ITS piloting opportunities.
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