Sustainable mobility
Supervisor: Philipp Bolliger
Talk: May 11, 2010
Report due: May 4, 2010 (First version) May 25, 2010 (Camera ready version)
Abstract:
The availability of fast, reliable, and sustainable transportation systems is a key parameter to evaluate the quality of life of modern urban centers. Accordingly, the design, promotion and implementation of sustainable mobility policies are primary concerns for decision makers. In this context, researchers have identified several areas in which the introduction of technological innovation may help making transportation systems more efficient. For instance, providing real-time information to travelers may help them reducing their total travel time and, thus, their fuel consumption.
After providing an overview on the above mentioned areas of innovation, this talk will describe in detail vTrack, a system that relies on off-the-shelf mobile devices to provide travelers with real-time information about traffic conditions. vTrack users can optimize their travel routes on the fly thereby saving time, which is freed for more productive activities, and fuel. In describing the vTrack system we will particularly focus on the issue of localization and explore the trade-off between the accuracy of the retrieved location information and the energy spent to obtain it.
Recommended bibliography:
- Todd Goldman and Roger Gorham
Sustainable Urban Transport: Four Innovative Directions.
Technology in Society, Vol. 28, Issues 1-2, Pages 261-273, January-April 2006
- Arvind Thiagarajan, Lenin Ravindranath, Katrina LaCurts, Samuel Madden, Hari Balakrishnan, Sivan Toledo, and Jakob Eriksson
VTrack: Accurate, Energy-Aware Road Traffic Delay Estimation Using Mobile Phones.
Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2009), Berkeley, CA, USA, November 2009
- Kaisen Lin, Aman Kansal, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, and Feng Zhao
Energy-Accuracy Trade-off for Continuous Mobile Device Location.
Proceedings of the 8th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobySys 2010), San Francisco, CA, USA, June 2010
Further resources:
- David Banister
The Sustainable Mobility Paradigm.
Transport Policy, Vol. 15, Issue 2, Pages 73-80, March 2008
- Prashanth Mohan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, and Ramachandran Ramjee
Nericell: Rich Monitoring of Road and Traffic Conditions Using Mobile Smartphones.
Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SensSys 2008), Raleigh, NC, USA, November 2008
- Paul DeMaio
Bike-sharing: History, Impacts, Models of Provision, and Future.
Journal of Public Transportation, Vol. 12, No. 4, 2009
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