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March 5, 2013 presentation for MIT Crowdsourced City ClassTRANSCRIPT
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.