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
Pajarito-Grajales, Diego; Gould, Michael; Miralles-Tena, Ignacio; Frías-Garrido, David; Monfort-Muriach, Aida A biking geo-game to gather commuting data Inproceedings In: 3rd AGILE 2016 pre-conference workshop Geogames and geoplay. AGILE 2016, Helsinki, June 14-17., 2016. @inproceedings{PajaritoGrajales2016, title = {A biking geo-game to gather commuting data}, author = { Diego Pajarito-Grajales and Michael Gould and Ignacio Miralles-Tena and David Frías-Garrido and Aida Monfort-Muriach}, url = {http://www.geogames-team.org/agile2016/submissions/Pajarito_et_al_Biking.pdf}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-01-01}, booktitle = {3rd AGILE 2016 pre-conference workshop Geogames and geoplay. AGILE 2016, Helsinki, June 14-17.}, abstract = {Urban bicycling is seen as a reliable and environmentally friendly alternative for commuting. Governments are improving biking infrastructure and promoting usage while they highlight its health benefits and zero emission operations. There are interesting questions related to differences between infrastructure planning and citizens' adoption and usage, and the differences between plans and usage analysis making them incomparable because they follow different methodologies or spatial representation is missing. Better data collection and analysis tools are needed to improve comprehension of urban biking, and geospatial technologies and mobile devices would help to identify such differences and would help both city planners and urban bikers to optimize trips. This documents contains a geo-game proposal that uses virtual resources or gems as game instruments to be be relocated. Players join teams and use bikes to “carry” them around the city to win; meanwhile data from mobile devices is collected to understand paths and players' displacements. Generated datasets will be also used to understand bike usage patterns and provide a new platform to engage citizens with data production and validation using gamified tools.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} } Urban bicycling is seen as a reliable and environmentally friendly alternative for commuting. Governments are improving biking infrastructure and promoting usage while they highlight its health benefits and zero emission operations. There are interesting questions related to differences between infrastructure planning and citizens' adoption and usage, and the differences between plans and usage analysis making them incomparable because they follow different methodologies or spatial representation is missing. Better data collection and analysis tools are needed to improve comprehension of urban biking, and geospatial technologies and mobile devices would help to identify such differences and would help both city planners and urban bikers to optimize trips. This documents contains a geo-game proposal that uses virtual resources or gems as game instruments to be be relocated. Players join teams and use bikes to “carry” them around the city to win; meanwhile data from mobile devices is collected to understand paths and players' displacements. Generated datasets will be also used to understand bike usage patterns and provide a new platform to engage citizens with data production and validation using gamified tools. |
Smid, Marek; Costa, Ana; Pebesma, Edzer; Granell-Canut, Carlos; Bhattacharya, Devanjan A review of downscaling procedures – a contribution to the research on climate change impacts at city scale Inproceedings In: EGU General assembly 2016. Vienna, 17-22 April 2016, pp. 6768, 2016. @inproceedings{Smid2016, title = {A review of downscaling procedures – a contribution to the research on climate change impacts at city scale}, author = { Marek Smid and Ana Costa and Edzer Pebesma and Carlos Granell-Canut and Devanjan Bhattacharya}, url = {https://www.google.es/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj6tbnirMrNAhVBbRQKHUaYAe4QFggeMAA&url=http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/EGU2016-6768.pdf&usg=AFQjCNEIBeeBH6YJyfuWwZVBojqcZfzzhg}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-01-01}, booktitle = {EGU General assembly 2016. Vienna, 17-22 April 2016}, volume = {18}, pages = {6768}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} } |
Technical contact: Sergi Trilles (strilles@uji.es)
IP: Joaquín Huerta (huerta@uji.es)
Website: http://geo-c.eu/