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W3C Workshop on Data Models for Transportation

12-13 September 2019, Palo Alto, California

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Location

Uber
Creekside Court, building A
900 Arastradero Rd
Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
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Day 1: Thursday 12 September 2019

  1. 08:15–08:45 AM Registration
  2. 08:45–09:00 AM Opening remarks by Ted Guild (W3C) and Setting the stage by Joshua Shinavier (Uber) plenary
    Goals for workshop
    Outline high level goals for the workshop, increase awareness of related activities in transportation space with a data centric focus, improve collaboration and coordination going forward, identify gaps, potential standards to address challenges and further solutions.
  3. 09:00–10:15 AM Setting the context: Transportation Sector Perspectives plenary
    Goals
    Share high level experiences, needs, challenges and opportunities of transportation data from different market sectors such as fleet management, multi-modal travel, public interest. Other sectors covered in breakout sessions, lightning talks and within other topics.
    Talks
    Unlocking the Value in Vehicular Data Using Analytics Amir Sayegh - Geotab
    Transportation Mobility CloudJay Hum, Autonomic
    Multi-Modal Traveling: beyond cars Luis Daniel Ibáñez, University of Southampton
    Detection & Inclusion of Two-Wheelers into the Connected Car EcosystemBrent Massey, Ridar
    Federal Perspective on Transportation Data Robert Rittmuller, US DOT
    Scribe
  4. 10:15–10:45 AM Break
  5. 10:45–12:30PM Routing, IoT and GIS discussion
    Goals Discuss state of practice around moving objects, sensors, observations, trajectories and IoT/SmartCity interactions.
    Talks
    Space and Time Topics George Pervical, OGC
    Towards a SAREF extension for Automotive Michelle Wetterwald, Netellany
    Route Planning on the Web (pdf) Julián Rojas, Ghent University
    Geospatial Insights Using AI Amir Sayegh - Geotab
    An Ontology-based Standard for City Data Megan Katsumi, University of Toronto
    Towards A Common Data ModelKenneth Vaughn, Trevilon
    W3C Web of Things (WoT) - Introduction, Status and RoadmapTakuki Kamiya, Fujitsu
    Standardization as enabler towards a data centric architecture in automotiveAdnan Bekan, BMW
    Spatial Data, Linked Building Data
    Scribe
  6. 12:30–01:30 PM Lunch
  7. 01:30–02:00 PM Lightning Talks lightning
    Format
    Open lightning talks from participants, please keep any presentations limited to five minutes. Brief questions and comments as time permits.
  8. 02:00–02:45 PM Breakout sessions breakout
    Format
    Open one-hour session for discussions in smaller groups on specific topics proposed by workshop participants. To suggest a topic in advance of the workshop, please send email to the program committee at <group-transportation-data-ws-pc@w3.org>.
    Session 1: Ontology Awareness
    Discussion around ontologies from workshop attendee submissions, uses, maintainers, roadmap, ideas for improvement.
    Session 2: Additional Sector Needs
    Special considerations for other significant sectors such as Insurance, Aftermarket, Maintenance/Service, Fueling/Charging, Autonomous Vehicles, etc
  9. 02:45–03:15 PM Break
  10. 03:15–03:30 PM Accessibility Considerations in Transportation discussion
    Goals
    Introduce W3C Accessibility Initiative, pertinent geospatial annotations, factory and aftermarket modified capability data needs, autonomous vehicle considerations.
    Talks
    Accessible Transportation Janina Sajka, Linux Foundation and Ted Guild, W3C
    Scribe
  11. 03:30–04:15 PM Automotive Standards Activities discussion
    Goals
    Establish understanding of some existing related standards activities in automotive space.
    Talks
    Cloud & Connected Services OverviewSteve Crumb, GENIVI
  12. 04:15–05:00 PM Data design decisions discussion
    Goals
    Norms to encourage following besides having public, dereferencable ontologies
    Talks
    Customer Data ModelsAnand Mundada and Gaurav Tungatkar, Uber
    Incorporating schema-less and other data models
    Data stream APIs
    Extensibility and Schema.org core ontologies
    Publishing and pitfalls
    Accessibility, annotation fields
    Scribe

Day 2: Friday 13 September 2019

  1. 08:00–08:45 AM Registration
  2. 08:45–9:30 AM Marketplace Mentality discussion
    Goals
    Discuss the legal, business, political challenges with thoughts on accommodating in technical solutions including need for portability across providers (NMFTA ELD, Solid). Data openness and ownership.
    Talks
    Personalized and privacy-aware route planning with SOLID (pdf) Julián Rojas, Ghent University
    Portability Across telematics service providers Ben Gardiner - NMFTA
    Sampling, quality and additional metadata
    Permissions, Access Control in data store
    Scribe
  3. 09:30–10:15 AM Automotive Standards Activities (contd) discussion
    Goals
    Establish understanding of some existing related standards activities in automotive space.
    Talks
    Bringing the Car to the InternetRudolf Streif, Ibeeto
    W3C Auto overviewTed Guild, W3C
    Integration of Vehicles into the Web of Things Adnan Bekan, BMW
  4. 10:15–10:30 AM Break
  5. 10:30–12:00 AM Privacy discussion
    Goals
    Review related solutions on consent capture, ontologies and other representations of permissions from attendees.
    Talks
    Data Privacy and Ownership in the Open Car Lothar Determan, Baker McKenzie
    SPECIAL - EU Project on privacy policies (longer version) Martin Kurze, Deutsche Telekom AG
    Practical privacy for drivers Arjun Hassard, Nucypher
    Scribe
  6. 12:00–12:30PM Standards Coordination discussion
    Goals Discuss state of practice around moving objects, sensors, observations, trajectories and IoT/SmartCity interactions.
    Talks
    Open Process for the Development of a City Data StandardMark Fox, University of Toronto
    W3C/OGC Spatial Data on the Web Interest Group George Pervical, OGC
  7. 12:30–01:30 PM Lunch
  8. 01:30–02:00 PM Lightning Talks lightning
    Format
    Open lightning talks from participants, please keep any presentations limited to five minutes. Brief questions and comments as time permits.
    Talks
    Grade Crossing Behavior ModelRJ Rittmuller
    Open Telematics APIBen Gardiner
    ADEPT – a Limited Iterative Ontological NotationGregory Sharp
    David Mordecai
    videoCheryl Scott
  9. 02:05–02:45 PM Breakout sessions breakout
    Format
    Open one-hour session for discussions in smaller groups on specific topics proposed by workshop participants. To suggest a topic in advance of the workshop, please send email to the program committee at <group-transportation-data-ws-pc@w3.org>.
    Session 1:
    User profile contents, consent management, short term subset access
  10. 02:45–03:15 PM Break
  11. 03:15–04:00 PM Challenges discussion
    Goals
    Cover additional challenges within transportation, ranging from connectivity, caching, information time sensitivity, etc.
    Talks
    Uber FreightJon Freer, Jennie Nguyen
    Scribe
  12. 04:00–04:45 PM Next steps for standardization discussion
    Goals
    Summarize workshop inputs and create an action plan for standardization and continued collaboration.
    Speakers
    Ted Guild, W3C
    Scribe
  13. 04:45–05:00 PM Closing remarks by Joshua Shinavier (Uber) and Ted Guild (W3C) plenary

Instructions for participants

The workshop focuses on topics raised by participants in expressions of interest and position statements. Each topic gets introduced by one or more short or lightning talk(s), and discussed among participants, possibly in smaller groups. The goal of each discussion at the workshop is not to resolve the technical issues of the topic, but to determine its relevance and priority to standardization.

Format

plenary
Plenary sessions introduce and summarize generic information relevant to all participants. Transportation-related topics raised during plenary sessions will be discussed in more details during other workshop sessions.
discussion
A typical discussion session (45-75 minutes) starts with a few talks by speakers nominated in advance. Talks will either be short (<15 minutes) or very short (lightning talks). They will be followed by a discussion among participants to exchange ideas, assess priorities, and identify possible standardization actions.
breakout
Participants break into smaller breakout groups to discuss more specific topics over a period of maximum 60 minutes. The breakout session schedule is built collaboratively by the participants in the course of the workshop. Each group will provide a written summary of their breakout session.

Tools

Chat

We will take notes on IRC during the workshop: irc.w3.org:6665#transpo / IRC web client

Meeting notes

Meeting notes will be recorded on IRC during sessions. These notes will be made public. A scribe will be nominated for each session, however note-taking help from all the participants is very much welcome to ensure correctness and completeness of the notes. We wish to make note-taking a collaborative exercise at this workshop.

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