Two letters from the Center for Democracy and Technology, one to the Washington DC Department of Transportation (DDOT) and the other to the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, raising privacy issues and concerns with data provided using the Mobility Data Specification (MDS).
In 2015, the USDOT awarded cooperative agreements to three pilot sites to implement a suite of connected vehicle applications and technologies. One of the key goals of the CV Pilot program is to produce and provide Open Data from the pilots to the public in a quick and useful manner. This will enable research into the effectiveness of emerging ITS technologies, preliminary development of third-party applications, and harmonization of data across similar collections.
Through the ICM initiative, the U.S. DOT is providing guidance to assist agencies in implementing ICM and creating supporting analysis tools, approaches, and technical. standards. https://www.its.dot.gov/research_archives/icms/index.htm
Contains sanitized raw data from the Connected Vehicles Pilot Programs. https://usdot-its-cvpilot-public-data.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
Launched in December 2015, the USDOT Smart City Challenge asked mid-sized cities across America to develop ideas for an integrated, first-of-its-kind smart transportation system that would use data, applications, and technology to help people and goods move more quickly, cheaply, and efficiently. The Challenge generated an overwhelming response: 78 applicant cities shared the challenges they face and ideas for how to tackle them. The city of Columbus, Ohio was selected as winner of the challenge.
The Secure Data Commons (SDC) is a cloud-based analytics platform that enables traffic engineers, researchers, and data scientists to access transportation-related datasets. The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) created the SDC to provide a secure platform for sharing and collaborating on research, tools, algorithms, and analysis involving moderate sensitivity level datasets using commercially available tools, without needing to install tools or software locally.
The ODE is a real-time virtual data router that ingests and processes operational data from various connected devices—including vehicles, infrastructure, and traffic management centers—and distributes it to other devices and subscribing transportation management applications.
Using Micro-Mobility Data to Drive Transportation Policy and Investments in Greater Boston is a short article describing the dockless bike share program run by the Boston area Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) as well as the MAPC’s approach to data sharing with Lime, the bike share service provider.
On May 14, 2020, the Utah DOT hosted a webinar on the new V2X project with Panasonic to bring awareness to UDOT’s efforts to further expand V2X technology, create a scalable solution to capture and analyze V2X data, and launch a cloud-based V2X Data Ecosystem (VDE) to enable data sharing, analytics, and innovation.