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5 June 2017
Professor Fabio Ciravegna
Department of Computer Science, The University of Sheffield
Taking
the pulse of a smart city: mobility as we have never seen
Mobility
within a wide metropolitan area is a complex system involving multiple
modalities of transport (e.g. walking, train, cars, buses, undergrounds,
freight, etc.), multiple managing authorities (different city councils,
motorways companies, etc.), as well as several million citizens. Mobility
in the cities is becoming more and more complex due to the high complexity
deriving from the more erratic patterns of the everyday life compared to
two decades ago. Our city, unfortunately were not designed for intensive
motorised mobility. Congestions are the costly consequence: in the UK
congestions cost the economy around 4 billion each year, or £400 per
car-commuting household, most of it due to fuel. Lost time is over £300
per commuter a year while hold-ups to business or freight vehicles amounts to
over a billion annually.
Recent advances in data analysis and sensing allow to collect huge amounts of
data that in turn can help understand, model and optimise mobility, so to
reduce congestion and reduce air pollution.
In this talk I will describe some of these methodologies for large scale data
collection and analysis, the opportunities they are bringing, as well as
risks implied.
About the Speaker:
Fabio Ciravegna is professor in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Sheffield.
His research concerns large-scale data acquisition and management. He is the director of the European project Seta (setamobility.eu) which focuses on the use of large scale data for efficient, effective, safe, resilient mobility in metropolitan areas (15 partners, €5.5 million).
His research has found industrial applications in fields such as aerospace, manufacturing, sports and smart cities. He is the creator of a technology for tracking human mobility via mobile phones currently adopted by dozens of thousands of users in the UK.
He has co-created two companies: K-now Ltd which focuses on large-scale analysis of social media analysis, and The Floow which is a global player in the area of car telematics.