How crowdsourcing is being used in transport planning and operations, how it can help support community and provide purpose in an age without work.

1. crowdsourced-transport.com
Civic Technology for Sustainable Transport
Andrew Nash
andy@andynash.com
Transport without Planners

2. Who would
have thought?

3. Brexit
US Election
Populism
…

4. Visions

5. Visions
• How … do we build visions?
• What … could a vision look like?
• Why ... is vision important?
• When … do we begin?

6. Crowdsourcing …
• Uses communications and IT …
• to outsource activities and functions …
• once performed by institutions …
• to a large, undefined network of people.
… it is (already) completely changing how we plan
and operate transport systems.
How? … Crowdsourcing

7. Transport
Crowdsourcing

8. 4 ways to crowdsource transport
• Report
• Analyse
• Collaborate
• Act!

9. Report

10. Mainstream Social Media: Facebook – Zurich

11. Generic Reporting App – SeeClickFix

12. Customised Reporting App – FixMyTransport

13. Map-based Reporting – Meine Radspur, Vienna

14. Report potholes automatically
using smart phone accelerometer.
Sensor-based Reporting – Street Bump (Boston)

15. Analyse

16. • Open data;
• Transport application data (tracking);
• Resident-collected data (cheap sensors).
… vastly improved computing enables anyone to
analyse scenarios, evaluate service, and develop their
own transport plans.
Collecting & Analysing data is easy

17. Open transport data – opentraffic.io

18. Use Open Data to create apps & visualisations
Stumble Safely, Washington D.C.
Open data.
Mash-ups.
Hack-a-thons.

19. Tracking data.
Incident reporting.
Guidance.

20. Open Source Bike Tracking App – Cycle Tracks (SF)

21. Swift app and “Transitime” analysis tool
More accurate than transit agency data?

22. Using GPS tracking (& games) to crowdsource a map
Mexico City private mini-buses

23. Resident data collection – WayCount traffic counter
Your own traffic counter.
Cost: 200 Euros.

24. Your sensor data available on the
Internet for anyone to analyse.
Sharing resident-collected data - Air Quality Egg

25. Collaborate

26. • Education – problems are complex;
• Process – meetings are difficult;
• Engagement – more is better.
Apps make Collaboration more efficient

27. Education: Games – Bus Meister

28. Education: Visualisation – streetmix.net

29. Education: Virtual Reality
Participatory Chinatown Boston

30. Collaboration via Facebook – Green City Streets Forum

31. Collaboration & Education – MetroQuest

32. Collaboration tools and app – Loomio

33. Engagement: Games – Ring Ride Vienna

34. Act

35. Apps lead to ACTION
• Re-use … vacant urban land  596 Acres;
• Share … food with neighbours  Casserole;
• DYI … do it yourself  bike lanes, pedestrian signs;
• Change … travel patterns  Chromaroma, Walk-a-Stop;
• Fund … local projects  Spacehive, Kickstarter;
• Provide … transport service  Uber, BlahBlahCar, Bridj;
• Create … open source software and apps  travel?

36. Information exchange and organisation … 596 Acres

37. Share: Meals – Casserole (UK)
• Cooking the meal is as important as receiving it.
• Social contact is as important as nutrition.

38. DYI – Do it yourself – Bike lane (Minneapolis)

39. DYI – Do it yourself – Signs (Walk Your City)

40. Change Behaviour – Chromaroma game (London)

41. Activity monitor
+
Real time transport data
+
Social networking
=
Walk-a-Stop
Public transport agency sends push notifications to
help manage demand (e.g., crowded station).
Why not walk a stop?
Users receive map and reward (points, coffee on route).
Change Behaviour – Walk-a-Stop (Prototype)

42. Fund local projects – Bus Shelter (Kickstarter)

43. Provide transport service – Rideshare (Bla Bla Car)

44. Provide transport service – Public Transport (Bridj)

45. Create – Open source software (Open Trip Planner)

46. What

47. How What
I cheated …

48. Why

49. Crowdsourcing Applications
Can help address
pressing problems.

50. Automation, robots, the end of work?
Passion replaces salaries in an
age of guaranteed incomes.
Crowdsourcing apps can help people find
opportunities to ____.

51. Alienation, elitism, inequality?
Building shared visions creates
a foundation for community.
Use crowdsourcing apps to create community.

52. When

53. Now …

55. Andrew Nash develops engaging public
participation applications and games designed
to improve city live-ability and transport.
• Crowdsourced-Transport.com
• Ringstrasse150.com
• AndyNash.com
crowdsourced-transport.com
Civic Technology for Sustainable Transport