Agile Traffic Reporting During Construction: A Public Relations Solution Integrating GIS and Waze

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1 Agile Traffic Reporting During Construction: A Public Relations Solution Integrating GIS and Waze Berkley Myers, GISP Eastern Region GIS Team Lead Hanover, MD

2 Overview Cambridge, MA Alewife Project and details The Challenge: Real-time Traffic Integrating GIS with Waze Discussion and Questions

3 Who is Kleinfelder?

4 City of Cambridge Massachusetts

5 Alewife Project Area Medium-density urban neighborhood 8000 residents; 650 acres; 2500 buildings Residential with two business districts One-way street network Limited parking Regional Commuter Artery

6 Alewife Project Area

7 Alewife CSO Separation Project Boston Harbor Cleanup federally mandated sewer separation 30 years of planning 35 Project areas $900 million Alewife Neighborhood Project 5 construction contracts over 5 years Last 3 contracts executed concurrently Completion end of 2017

8 Alewife Project Area Project Area Goal: Sewer separation to eliminate CSOs

9 Cambridge DPW Scope 300+ street trees 40, miles feet (12km) sewer street separation paving and piping curbing 33,000+ feet (10km) water mains 15 miles (24km) of 31,300 sidewalk feet (9.5km) natural gas mains

10 Kleinfelder s Role Traffic Management Traffic Change Updates Community Relations Support On-site Construction Oversight Traffic Impact Information Traffic Signage Checks Police Detail Locations

11 The Challenge: Real-time Traffic Residents frustration about driving through the construction area 3,000+ logged community comments to date Complaints often escalated to leadership resulted in negative project publicity Kleinfelder/City of Cambridge First real-time traffic data feed management on Waze Waze Connected Citizens Program (CCP) Partners Gov t with Waze to share traffic information Solved many of the community concerns Nearly 2 years since implementation

12 The Challenge: Real-time Traffic Agility Dynamic project conditions Need accurate information Communication City committed to community relations Significant impact on residents daily lives Management Logistics I don t have time for any extra work Daily closures are not scheduled Closure details change

13 Potential Solutions Posting weekly work schedule on project website GIS mapping the permit database DPW Commissioner: get it on Google maps or something? GIS mapping contractor s required schedule submittals Waze CCP: Real-Time Closure Pilot

14 Real-time Traffic Reporting Collector ArcGIS Server Neighborhood Residents Regional Commuters

15 Real-time Traffic Reporting

16 BEFORE - Waze and Data Feed User input of closures not widely in use for this area Hello?..

17 AFTER - Putting Waze to Work! App Stats Winter Construction Closures

18 Lessons Learned Data feed and debugging Compatibility Issue Daily monitoring Geometry Differences Waze Data Feed Interpretation Public Wazer Input

19 Geometry Differences GIS Street Centerline Data vs Waze Community Street Data

20 Data Feed Interpretation Interpreted Json Data Feed Esri Collector App Waze Live Map

21 Waze Interpretation Feature Service: Data Feed Waze Live Map

22 Wazer Input help stay accurate

23 Public Outreach Alewife Sewer Separation Project Keeping Cambridge residents informed about construction with innovative outreach, 3D technology, and Waze The app has been super handy for guiding me around the tiny one-way streets of west Cambridge and helps users to detour around any traffic or ongoing construction. Cambridge resident

24 Public Outreach MIT Museum: Mapapalooza! Kleinfelder using GIS to help the community understand public transportation Aaron Doucett utilizing GIS technology to help residents track the walking distance to and from any public transportation station in the Boston area

25 Findings and Lessons Learned Establish partnerships and public outreach early Reduce negative backlash and gain communication avenues Technology adopters become proponents Organized 25 crews with, equipment, detour directions, and proper road closures Make it as easy as possible or they wont adopt Technology focused drivers I see the road closed sign but the phone says the road is open. Ride sharing (Uber and Lyft) Increased drivers unfamiliar with local traffic patterns Open data feeds can be used by other apps

26 Discussion & Questions Berkley Myers