Transportation at the Tech Frontier

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1 Short Talks Big Ideas Transportation at the Tech Frontier

2 LIMITS OF THE UNTETHERED CITY Anthony Townsend Institute for the Future & Rudin Center

3 Limits in the Untethered City Why Untethered Communications is All That Matters. And Why We May Never Have Enough Of It. Dr. Anthony Townsend Institute for the Future NYU Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management

4 "When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. Nicola Tesla in Collier s magazine in 1926!

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6 1946 2,000 subscribers in New York City shared just 12 channels, and typically waited 30 minutes to place a call. -AT&T

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8 Start slicing the city up

9 slicing space

10 Digital cellular - slicing time

11 3G: back to slicing space

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16 If you had a quarter of the population of Manhattan watching a video over their handset, it would take approximately 100,000 cell sites, or a huge amount of additional spectrum. -Eli Noam, Columbia Business School

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19 Why do you care?

20 untethered devices benefit transit

21 And make it easier to use

22 it s the new infrastructure of mobility

23 the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole Tesla was right!

24 Mo Mobile phone users in Paris

25 GETTING AROUND CITIES John Geraci fabernovel

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38 TAXI GPS DATA & THE BREADCRUMB PROJECT Sophia Choi NYC DOT

39 Photo credit: Murray Mitchell TAXI GPS DATA Sophia J. Choi Transportation Planner, New York City Department of Transportation April 9 th, 2012

40 TAXI GPS DATA OVERVIEW provided by the Taxi Limousine Commission (TLC) track pick-up and drop-off points, trip distance/time and fare information post-processed by DOT: filtering, aggregating and assigning trips to zones 13,000 taxicabs generate about 13 million citywide taxi trips per month Over 800 million taxi trips recorded since 2007

41 TAXI GPS DATA APPLICATIONS Applications NYC traffic trends Pre- and post-project evaluations Regional transportation planning and modeling (BPM, Origin/Destination, demand estimation) Visualizations 2011 Manhattan Speed by Day Daytime Traffic Speeds A New York Minute Pick-up and Drop-off Animation

42 2011 MANHATTAN SPEEDS BY DAY (Source: 2010 Sustainable Streets Index by NYCDOT)

43 DAYTIME TRAFFIC SPEEDS WEEKDAYS (9 a.m. 4 p.m.) (Source: 2010 Sustainable Streets Index by NYCDOT) GPS data for short distance trips (<= 0.5 miles) from typical weekdays Speeds are calculated for small zones using the median speed for taxi trips in each zone. Data reflect the median zonal speeds rather than speeds in individual streets. Zones with insufficient number of taxi trips are not included.

44 A NEW YORK MINUTE Sample trips to show where you can go in 7- minute taxi ride 7 minutes is the most frequent taxi trip duration Sample trips from May 2011 (Created by Stanislav Parfenov)

45 PICK-UP AND DROP-OFF ACTIVITIES January 13, 2009 Midnight to 1AM 9AM to 10AM 5PM 6PM

46 THE FUTURE: THE BREADCRUMB PILOT PROJECT Current Taxi GPS data only contain positional information for pick-up and drop-off The Breadcrumb project has GPS loggers taking snapshots every second Breadcrumb data will reflect the roadway conditions by time of day The pilot project will determine Minimal # of taxis GPS loggers to generate useful statistics for New York City Whether or not per-second signals is sufficient or excessive

47 SAMPLE TAXI GPS DATA Pick-up and Drop-off Time Information Pick-up and Drop-off Location Information Fare/Trip Information

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49 SOCIAL TRAVEL IN THE ERA OF THE SMARTPHONE Andrew Mondschein NYU Rudin Center

50 Travel is Social The Italian Passeggiata Cruising

51 Activity Location - Average Meters from Home Cell Phone Ownership and Activity Type (All Modes, Adults > $75k Household Income) Social/Rec. Meals Work Shopping Zero to to One One More than One Cellphones per Household Member

52 Activity Location - Average Meters from Home Cell Phone Ownership and Activity Type (Walking, Adults > $75k Household Income) Social/Rec. Meals Work Shopping Zero to to One One More than One Cellphones per Household Member

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54 Percent Trips Taken by Mode for "Typical" Traveler Who Walks? 100.0% 90.0% 80.0% 70.0% 60.0% 50.0% 40.0% 30.0% Drive Walk Transit Bike Taxi (NYC Only) 20.0% 10.0% 0.0% Individuals Living Below 10,000 ppsqmi Individuals Living Above 10,000 ppsqmi Income-Education Composite Scale

55 Percent Trips by Walking Walking Rates by Travel Purpose 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Home Work Shop Social Meal Transport Exercise Trip Purpose Necessity Walkers Lifestyle Walkers

56 L TRAIN NOTWORK Mark Krawczuk WeMakeCoolSh.it

57 A Pirate WiFi intranet on the New York Subway by

58 We are a creative consultancy that works with start-ups, brands and agencies to produce innovative ideas.

59 People ride the train packed together but rarely interact Almost everyone has a mobile device but without an internet connection they are a bit boring

60 Create a local WiFi intranet accessible by anyone with a mobile device Give passengers a reason and a way to interact with the people around them and artists in their community

61 Create a LoFi mobile site accessible from any mobile browser Feature a chat room for people to chat with people around them Feature content from local artists Provide newsfeeds from popular sites

62 Create tiny battery powered web servers that can be carried on the train in unassuming shopping bags Have one person, carrying a server, on every train between the Morgan and 8 th Ave stops, on the L train, during rush hour

63 Let s go to the video

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65 Create a clever flyer to pass out to commuters outside the station and at local cafes and places of interest

66 Press Blogs Tweets Cassandra

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68 Focus on the idea not the tech Applying the same thinking to different situations

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70 NEW FARE PAYMENT SYSTEMS Elizabeth Paul MTA

71 MTA Tap & Ride : The future of fare collection Elizabeth Paul, MTA New Fare Payment Systems April 9, Metropolitan Transportation Authority

72 MetroCard today A card-based system, all paid-in-advance. Drawbacks Obsolete, nearing end of life High fare collection costs Inflexible fare policy Locked in a proprietary system Long bus boarding times MTA costs averaged 15 per $1 revenue collected. MTA issued over 200M MetroCards in Metropolitan Transportation Authority 72

73 The future of fare collection is MTA Tap & Ride An account-based system using an open payment architecture Metropolitan Transportation Authority 73

74 The Infrastructure In-station Kiosks Subway Turnstiles MTA Servers Open Payment Network Reload Network Bus Farebox 2012 Metropolitan Transportation Authority 74

75 Technology and data Using open standards. MTA part of the open payment network. Accept any contactless payment device. A ride can be purchased as you enter. Reload anywhere (online, app, SMS). Aggregate statistics on ridership and fare media sales and use. Potential web service for fare table queries. Travel and purchase history data available to account holders. Potential for personalized stats, visualization Metropolitan Transportation Authority 75

76 Other transit agencies exploring open payments Chicago London Salt Lake City New York City Los Angeles County New Jersey Dallas Washington DC NY/NJ Philadelphia South Jersey/Philadelphia 2012 Metropolitan Transportation Authority 76

77 I HEART M15 Lizzy Showman & Kathleen Fitzgerald School of Visual Arts

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89 THE COLLABORATIVE CITY PLAN Frank Hebbert OpenPlans

90 Short Talks, Big Ideas: Transportation at the Tech Frontier The Collaborative City Plan April 9, Frank Hebbert,

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98 DID U COMMENT ON PLAZA PROPOSAL? PUBLIC MEETING TMRO. REPLY WITH UR IDEAS. XOXO DOT.

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103 Civic Engagement and Urban Planning

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107 See you in Frank Hebbert,

108 Short Talks Big Ideas Transportation at the Tech Frontier Q & A