Hello Mikel, Most of your examples concerns the day to day planning done by individuals. But my guess is that the conference concerns long term planning by authorities, esp. infrastructure.
There is an open source software package called MATSIM that predicts congestion and traveling times. AFAIK, it can combine digital maps (OSM), public transport data, population data and landuse data. Then it can simulate millions? of commuters each of them optimizing their traveling patterns. Although European universities are driving the R&D, it is also being used in South Africa. I met a couple of times with Professor Johan Joubert who is driving the research here. Although OSM is not yet at the same quality as commercial maps, it fits his requirements better (easy integration, flexibility etc). In fact, he and his students have done a significant amount of tracing of the low income and informal settlements. They are also busy adding "lanes" tags to make the simulations more realistic. So they are using the Bing aerial extensively. Here in the Gauteng province, a a number of large transport projects are nearing completion (the Gautrain rapid rail link, the motorway improvement project and subsequent tolling and the Bus Rapid Transport service (BRT)). His work is being used to predict the effect they will have on economic growth. Regards, Nic On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Mikel Maron <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > The World Bank is holding a conference this Wednesday on Transport Planning > & Applications, and I've been asked to give a talk on applications of OSM in > transport. > > Off the top of my head, I think of ITO's work, London Tube Travel Time, UK > Rail OSM seat back maps, Portland Oregon's transport work (they'll be > there), India railways maps. Just a few... > > What are some of the best example applications of OSM in transport? > > Thanks > Mikel > > == Mikel Maron == > +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
