This is one of 7 Community Groups established under the BigDataEurope Project, a Coordination and Support Action under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme, each one tailored to a specific Societal Challenge. The discussions in this group will be used to design and realise the ICT infrastructure needed to benefit from big data technologies, maximising the opportunities of the latest European RTD developments, including multilingual data harvesting, data analytics, and data visualisation.
This Community Group is specifically interested in the challenge related to smart, green and integrated transport and is led by the ERTICO.
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The ‘smart’ tag has been floating around ad nauseam in the past years, up-scaling everything from clothes through tennis rackets to water bottles. With cities joining in, it could get a bit confusing to understand what actually makes an object, a service, or an area smart.
We could try by looking at a few traits that make us, humans smart; like the ability to learn and interact. Add in some experience, coordination, connectivity, and predictability and we mostly defined what makes a smart city smart.
In essence a city is a complex intertwined system of systems that need to work and interact with each other 24/7. With the increase of urbanisation comes the growing threat of congestion, and difficulties in traffic and commuter management. Mobility is key, and can make all the difference either seamlessly aiding people and goods in getting from A to B or acting as a disruptive obstacle to the delicate ecology cities represent.
Devices, fixed or nomad, that are able to interact with each other, send and receive information, analyse and interpret it are the base.
Our first of a series of blogposts on the Transport challenge was published, click through to read more on how big data can revolutionise transport and the many opportunities that help us get from the technology of today to the mobility of tomorrow.
The smarter we use the data we gather, the more benefits it can provide to governments, businesses and individuals alike. It can help in developing more efficient city plans by understanding commuter behaviour. From a business perspective, collecting data on goods can optimize workloads, enhance efficiency in the freight industry and enable customers to track their shipments. Finally, it can help out individuals by deploying a system that lets them move around when and how they wish.
Click through to the BigDataEurope website to read the full post.
Coming blog posts will introduce topics ranging from RFID tags though the potential of wearables to new technologies just around the corner.
The workshop focuses on Big Data in the H2020 Societal Challenge Smart, green and integrated transport. Participants to this workshop will have the opportunity to influence the design, and ultimate benefit from the Big Data platform that the BigDataEurope project will deliver. This platform aims to facilitate Big Data usage in real world examples, and will consist of an architecture, components, guidelines and best practices to make the best of Big Data in this case in the setting of transport.
This is one of 7 Community Groups established under the BigDataEurope Project, a Coordination and Support Action under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme, each one tailored to a specific Societal Challenge. The discussions in this group will be used to design and realise the ICT infrastructure needed to benefit from big data technologies, maximising the opportunities of the latest European RTD developments, including multilingual data harvesting, data analytics, and data visualisation.
This Community Group is specifically interested in the challenge related to smart, green and integrated transport and is led by the ERTICO.
This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2015-04-22 by Phil Archer. The following people supported its creation: Phil Archer, Martin Kaltenböck, Simon Scerri, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Thomas Thurner. W3C’s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.
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