This report provides agencies responsible for Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSM&O) with an introduction to successful Big Data tools and technologies that can be used to aggregate, store, and analyze new forms of traveler-related data that may be useful for operations.
This paper synthesizes noteworthy practices (e.g. data access and sharing, integrating shared mobility into modeling and forecasting, etc.), identifies challenges and opportunities, and provides recommendations for future research needed.
A follow-up report to Integrating Shared Mobility into Multimodal Transportation Planning: Improving Regional Performance to Meet Public Goals provides three in-depth case studies of how MPOs and their partners are interacting with shared mobility companies to integrate these new options into regional multimodal transportation networks, improving system performance and supporting regional goals.
Iowa Department of Transportation (IDOT) implemented its WZDx data feed through a data integration project that extracts and transforms data from existing systems and then republishes that data using the WZDx specification.
An open source portal of publicly available, reusable, and open ITS research projects and data management tools. ITS DataHub enables free access to research datasets and associated documentation in near-real time and decreases the time from research to insight. Users can directly connect and contribute to the ITS DataHub community and open data by hosting new data, generating data stories, creating data visualizations, downloading data, or recommending improvements.
The KM4City Ecosystem is a complete, open-source, modern data solution for smart cities. The ecosystem is implemented using data from 33 cities and regions across Europe and supports many smart city dashboards and applications. This includes mobile applications accessible to both the public agencies and the general public.
Leveraging Data to Achieve Policy Outcomes is an interactive web-based tool for cities to evaluate micromobility services against policy goals that foster safe, sustainable, and equitable communities. It addresses equity, safety, environmental, and usage outcomes.
Managing Mobility Data is a short guide from the National Association of City Transportation Officials and the International Municipal Lawyers Association that sets out principles and best practices for sharing, protecting, and managing mobility data.
Maricopa County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) is a regional agency responsible for maintaining roadways within the Phoenix metropolitan area in cooperation with the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT). Both agencies share responsibility for maintaining a regionally integrated traffic data-sharing entity, called AZTech, which serves as the central data-sharing system across the region’s traffic and emergency management agencies.
Micromobility Data Policies: A Survey of City Needs is a 10-page survey of the micromobility data sharing policies from over a dozen cities.