the story of the urban launchpad

SMART CITIES FOR EVERYONE

By Mr. Albert Ching MCP 2012

March 5, 2013

The problem

Rush hour traffic in Jakarta

MEET DHAKA Only 1% of people have cars

15-18 million people 100,000 cars

<1% vehicles per 100 ppl

What do we predict will happen to Dhaka if nothing is done?

The problem

Rush hour traffic in Jakarta

4 pm Traffic Jam in JAKARTA August 2011

9 million people 9 million motorbikes

3 million cars >100% vehicles per 100 ppl

Summer 2011

Fall 2011

Introducing living dhaka, a social technology experiment to measure activity in the city

tiger tags

Living Dhaka

a tiger tag is just a piece of paper with a qr code embedded with a unique but anonymous id e.g. bengaltiger445

when an individual carries it, he or she becomes a tiger who can then be tracked by smartphone carrying volunteers.

one scan can log a host of information on those tigers

4:59 pm (time)

23.70, 90.44 (location)

walking (transport mode)

smiling(happiness)

which can then be sent into the cloud and aggregrated to produce measurements like the following which we tested at mit

where the tigers roamed

Living Showcase at MIT | Nov 17, 2011

when the tigers came and went, how long they stayed

what the tigers were interested in the relationship btwn what they liked and where it was

located

6 smartphones, 8 volunteers, 140 tigers total cost - $200 (t-shirts, printing zebra tags, phones borrowed)

development time – 4 (long) days, 1-2 people

Living Showcase at MIT | Nov 17, 2011

50 smartphones, 100 volunteers, x tigers? total cost - $10-20,000

we’d like to measure things not normally measured (e.g. pedestrian flows, bus ridership,

cycle rickshaw flows) and understand how both the measurements themselves and the social process of measurement is received by the city

development time – 2 months

Living Dhaka | week of January12, 2012

Old Dhaka Pedestrian Density & Flows

10 AM 1 PM 6 PM

experimental design 50 scanners at 25 fixed nodes 3 separate scanning times color of dots = high no. of scans/minute

(LARGER SCALE)

Living Dhaka | week of January12, 2012

main pedestrian corridors

(MEDIUM SCALE)

6 PM

Firmgate Bus Ridership and Speeds

experimental design 50 scanners @ 6 fixed nodes size of colors represents number of people alighting from those stops from farmgate speed calculated by average of consecutive scans

<5 km/h

5-10 km/h

10-15 km/h

Living Dhaka | week of January12, 2012

tap-ins

estimated speeds

tap-outs

(MEDIUM SCALE)

8 PM

Dhanmondi Lake Happiness and Density Map

experimental design 50 roaming scanners 1 scanning time at peak time blue color = places of highest number of happy people

Living Dhaka | week of January12, 2012

favorite spots

Living Dhaka

Design Your Dhaka baseline measurements

of car-free travel in the city pedestrian flows, bus and cycle rickshaw ridership, sidewalk happiness, meeting of rich and the poor

design challenge to improve these metrics in

the city

most promising ideas will get seed funding and tech assistance to prototype

Grand prize for the

experiment which improves the metrics the

most

1

2

sexy sidewalks

DESIGN YOUR

DHAKA

The problem

Mele Kalikimaka 2011

Jan 2012

Feb 2012

Bus Me Dhaka v25

Spring Break 2012

3-18-2012 Sunday

3-19-2012 Monday

3-20-2012 Tuesday

3-21-2012 Wednesday

3-23-2012 Friday

3-24-2012 Saturday

3-25-2012 Sunday

Detour due to cricket matches

Cricket Stadium

36

27 Bus Routes

Road Speed AZIMPUR

PALLABI

UTTARA

27 Uttara

20 km

1:25 Average

1:47

1:04

*Data based on 42 Rides in March 2012

Bad day 2:07

0:43 Good day

8 am 10 am 6 pm

1:50

Weekend Weekday

Bus Travel Times

Azimpur

Young, Male, Captive, Mobile, Hates Crowding

85% surveyed btwn 24-34

years

16% female (of those counted)

57% ride at least 5 times a

week

100% with a mobile phone (18% with

smartphone, 50% with internet-enabled multimedia phone)

Most common complaint about buses (23%)

Long waits (21%) and Too few buses (20%) were also common

* Potential flock bias

Bus Rider Demographics

2.3

52 seats per bus

39 seats per bus

Bus Size + Rider Happiness + Crowding + Female Ridership

3.6

VIP

BRTC

bus size rider happiness

bus crowding

female passengers

1.3 hours!Average one-way

commute time"

Azimpur"

Uttara"

Banani"

Dhanmondi"

27

Gazipur"

2.5 hours

Most popular commutes"

Most painful commute"

Accessibility

7%"5%"

6%"

<1%"

3%"

3%"

Sep 2012

Dec 2012

The First Bus Map of Dhaka Jan 2013

Xitu

Stephen Mamun bhai

Nestor Muntasir

Elizabeth

Kuan

Dhonnobad.