Joint Doctorate in Geoinformatics: Enabling Open Cities
Short Description
GEOTEC is one of three partners organising the Joint Doctorate “Geoinformatics: Enabling Open Cities (GEO-C)”, funded under the EU Marie Curie International Training Networks (ITN) program, European Joint Doctorates (EJD). GEO-C aims to contribute methods and tools to realise smart and open cities, in which all groups of society can participate on all levels and benefit in many ways. Complementary strands of research in GEO-C (participation, data analysis & fusion, services) will lead to an improved understanding of how to build open cities and will produce a prototypical open city toolkit. With a budget of over 3’5 million EURO, Geo-C provides 15 Phd students (5 in Spain, 5 in Portugal, 5 in Germany) the opportunity to do research and advance the state of the art in smart and open cities.
GEOTEC’s contribution
The main contribution is the Open City Toolkit (OCT), that it is envisioned as an integrated, open source software empowering citizens, providing them with analytical tools and citizen-centric services in the context of a smart city. It is incorporating the results of the various research lines within the GEO-C phd students. It is designed to keep all the resulting resources (i.e., data, processes, services, guidelines, standards, ontologies, and models) along with utilities, tools and applications that make use of these resources
Publications
Ngo, Manh Khoi; Casteleyn, Sven The deployment of a generic user-oriented participatory sensing framework in a real-world context Inproceedings In: Mansourian, A., Pilesjö, P., Harrie, L., & von Lammeren, R. (Eds.), 2018. Geospatial Technologies for All : short papers, posters and poster abstracts of the 21th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science. Lund University 12-15 June 2018, Lund, Sweden. , AGILE, Lund, 2018, ISBN: 978-3-319-78208-9. @inproceedings{Ngo2018, title = {The deployment of a generic user-oriented participatory sensing framework in a real-world context }, author = {Manh Khoi Ngo and Sven Casteleyn}, url = {https://agile-online.org/conference_paper/cds/agile_2018/posters/161%20Citizense%20poster%20manuscript%202018%20(final).pdf }, isbn = {978-3-319-78208-9}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-06-15}, booktitle = {Mansourian, A., Pilesjö, P., Harrie, L., & von Lammeren, R. (Eds.), 2018. Geospatial Technologies for All : short papers, posters and poster abstracts of the 21th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science. Lund University 12-15 June 2018, Lund, Sweden. }, publisher = {AGILE}, address = {Lund}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} } |
Pajarito-Grajales, Diego Fabián; Gould, Michael Mapping frictions inhibiting bicycle commuting Journal Article In: ISPRS International journal of geo-information, 7 (10), pp. 396, 2018, ISSN: 2220-9964, (IF). @article{Grajales2018, title = {Mapping frictions inhibiting bicycle commuting}, author = {Diego Fabián Pajarito-Grajales and Michael Gould }, doi = {https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi7100396}, issn = {2220-9964}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-05-01}, journal = {ISPRS International journal of geo-information}, volume = {7}, number = {10}, pages = {396}, abstract = {Urban cycling is a sustainable transport mode that many cities are promoting. However, few cities are taking advantage of geospatial technologies to represent and analyse cycling mobility based on the behavioural patterns and difficulties faced by cyclists. This study analyses a geospatial dataset crowdsourced by urban cyclists using an experimental, mobile geo-game. Fifty-seven participants recorded bicycle trips during one week periods in three cities. By aggregating them, we extracted not only the cyclists’ preferred streets but also the frictions faced during cycling. We successfully identified 284 places potentially having frictions: 71 in Münster, Germany; 70 in Castelló, Spain; and 143 in Valletta, Malta. At such places, participants recorded bicycle segments at lower speeds indicating a deviation from an ideal cycling scenario. We describe the potential frictions inhibiting bicycle commuting with regard to the distance to bicycle paths, surrounding infrastructure, and location in the urban area.}, note = {IF}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Urban cycling is a sustainable transport mode that many cities are promoting. However, few cities are taking advantage of geospatial technologies to represent and analyse cycling mobility based on the behavioural patterns and difficulties faced by cyclists. This study analyses a geospatial dataset crowdsourced by urban cyclists using an experimental, mobile geo-game. Fifty-seven participants recorded bicycle trips during one week periods in three cities. By aggregating them, we extracted not only the cyclists’ preferred streets but also the frictions faced during cycling. We successfully identified 284 places potentially having frictions: 71 in Münster, Germany; 70 in Castelló, Spain; and 143 in Valletta, Malta. At such places, participants recorded bicycle segments at lower speeds indicating a deviation from an ideal cycling scenario. We describe the potential frictions inhibiting bicycle commuting with regard to the distance to bicycle paths, surrounding infrastructure, and location in the urban area. |
Technical contact: Sergi Trilles (strilles@uji.es)
IP: Joaquín Huerta (huerta@uji.es)
Website: http://geo-c.eu/