Intelligent City Digital Birmingham Playback

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Intelligent CityDigital Birmingham Playback

• 25th March 2009

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The Vision

• Make Birmingham a recognised Intelligent City
• Transport
• Tourism
• Security
• Climate Change

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Intelligent City Demonstrator

• Focus on 3 key areas
• Transport
• Tourism
• Security
• Consortium of partners
• Establish broad, interoperable platform

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PoC Engagement

• Microsoft Technology Centre
• Timing
• ADS September 2008
• PoC February 9th to 27th
• lt15 days scenario driven development

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PoC Objectives

• Demonstrate
• A slice of the Intelligent Cities vision
• A service layer platform integrated with existing
  data / services
• Compelling user experiences across devices
• Empowering individuals to make more informed,
  smarter choices
• The fit of Microsoft tools and technologies

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Proof Points

• Virtual Travel Coordinator website
• Mobile sat nav for the public transport user
• Enabling services platform
• Simple smarter GPS

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Scenarios

• Colin social visit from his hotel to his aunts
  house
• Satellite navigation visiting a customers city
  centre office
• Demo

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Web client

• Allow user to create routes
• Provide view of current traffic levels, incidents
  etc.
• View friends position or ETA (with consent.)
• A view onto route planning, storage and sharing

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Mobile Client

• Act as a live guide to local public transport
• Enable dynamic routing in case of incident
• A tracking view on to a planned journey

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Enhanced SatNav

• Demonstrate extensions to current devices
• Integrated with car park availability
• Provide re-routing to avoid delays
• Use traffic data to avoid incidents and congestion

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Scenarios takeaways

• Colin
• Smart guidance for journey planning
• More informed, reduced risk for taking public
  transport
• Responsive to time of travel and realtime
  conditions
• Clear tracking as he navigates the city
• Sat Nav
• Opportunity to manage traffic dynamically
• Responsive to conditions
• Platform enables many further opportunities...

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Data Sources

• Matisse Incidents and car parks
• Centro Bus routes and timetable
• Birmingham City Council Road Network
• Astrid Traffic sensors
• ACIS Real time bus positions

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Technology Overview

• Web services WCF
• Mobile presentation Silverlight Mobile
• Web site ASP .NET
• Geospatial data SQL Server 2008
• Image sets and client control Virtual Earth
• Platform .NET Framework 3.5
• C, LINQ
• Tools Visual Studio 2008, Expression Studio

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Next Steps
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Mattisse Incident Data

• Mattisse incident data is captured from terminals
  located in traffic control centres across the
  midlands (Birmingham, Coventry, Sandwell
  Dudley, Leicester, Solihull, Walsall,
  Wolverhampton) along with terminals in police,
  and AA control centres.
• Provides information for current, future and
  realtime events.

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ASTRID

• ASTRID provides realtime congestion information
  for the BCC SCOOT area. SCOOT controls the
  majority of traffic signals in Birmingham and
  provides messages to the ASTRID system giving
  realtime congestion information. Analysis of this
  data can provide traffic delays, polution levels,
  and for this proof of concept levels of
  congestion within a SCOOT area.

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Monitron Car Park Information

• The Monitron system monitors only BCC car parks
  (NIA North South, Mailbox, Bullring Edgbaston
  Street, Bullring Central, Bullring Moor Street)
• Current systems do not clearly identify the
  occupancy of a car park or its suitability for
  the user

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Joining it all together

• Organisations have much data to offer
• The need to share data
• Common Data Management Facility
• POC shows possibilities for the future

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Missing Pieces

• Routing data
• Complete schedules and realtime bus data
• Train data
• Cycling, walking rules
• Points of interest and landmarks
• Multi-modal intersections
• Routing service
• Congestion and incident impact
• Robustness and performance