Presentation from 30/11-2/12/2012 Roma Cleanweb Hackathon, see http://italy.cleanweb.co

1. Promoting Sustainable Transportation via
Crowdsourcing
Davide Lamanna
WLAB, University of Rome “La Sapienza”... and WSENSE

2. Crowdsourcing for transportation
Provide feedback to users
Social collection of “transportation data”...
already a commercial success!
● PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE
BEHAVIOURS
● INFO SHARING
● PATH OPTIMIZATION
● Not necessarily the
sustainability
shortest path!
Cycling: the way ahead for towns and cities
● REAL-TIME FEEDBACK to
EU Commission - Available at ec.europa.eu ● END-USERS
● POLICY MAKERS
● URBAN PLANNERS

3. A bio-inspired approach!
Virtual
Pheromone
1. Ants release pheromone
2. Ants are attracted by pheromone
3. +visited → +pheromone → +success
4. Pheromone evaporates → success over time
MASSIVE
DATASETS
Understanding and
leveraging users
collective intelligence!