Tag: transport

OpenRouteService with waypoint optimization

As promised earlier this year, we are very happy to finally announce the unveiling of our new route optimization endpoint! We deployed an instance of the popular Vroom open-source engine, which is capable of solving complex Vehicle Routing Problems (VRP) in record time. This type of problem always occurs when multiple locations need to be visited…

2019-05-22
VGI-HATcH: Workshop at AGILE 2019 in Limassol, Cyprus (June 17, 2019)

We are organizing a workshop at the AGILE 2019 conference which will be held this June in Limassol, Cyprus. The workshop is titled as “VGI HATcH – Using Volunteered Geographic Information for Help and Assistance in Transport and Humanitarian operations”. Consider submitting your contributions. Looking forward to seeing you there! This full-day workshop provides an opportunity for interested…

2019-02-17
Erreichbarkeitsanalyse von Haltestellen des öffentlichen Personennahverkehrs in Stuttgart per Openrouteservice

In einer aktuellen Publikation der Stadt Stuttgart wird die Erreichbarkeit von Haltestellen des öffentlichen Personennahverkehrs in Stuttgart untersucht. Für die Berechnung der Isochronen wurde das kostenfrei nutzbare QGIS-Plugin OSM Tools verwendet. Dieses nutzt den seit 2008 verfügbaren Openrouteservice des Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT). Das Toolset umfasst Routing, Geocoding, Isochronen und Matrixberechnungen, entweder interaktiv im…

2019-01-07
An exploration of the interaction between urban human activities and daily traffic conditions: A case study of Toronto, Canada

Understanding how citizens interact with transportation system is a key to solving a variety of urban issues in general and traffic congestion in particular. Recently, scholars have put efforts on the pertinent work ranging from developing traffic predictors to understanding human mobility and activity patterns. Multiple types of data have been used, of which crowdsourced…

2018-10-19
Einladung: HGG-Vortrag: Verkehrsplanung in Heidelberg – derzeitige Konzepte und Zukunftsvisionen

Die Heidelberger Geographische Gesellschaft lädt ein: Verkehrsplanung in Heidelberg – derzeitige Konzepte und Zukunftsvisionen Dienstag, 21. November 2017, 19:00 Uhr Dipl.-Geogr. Sebastian Gieler (Stadt Heidelberg) Ort der Abendvorträge Kleiner Hörsaal (HS2) des Kirchhoff -Instituts für Physik (KIP) Heidelberg ist in den letzten Jahren um 10.000 Einwohner und ebenso viele Arbeitsplätze gewachsen. Ein ähnlicher Zuwachs ist…

2017-11-16
Mining and correlating traffic events from human sensor observations with official transport data using self-organizing-maps

Cities are complex systems, where related Human activities are increasingly difficult to explore within. In order to understand urban processes and to gain deeper knowledge about cities, the potential of location-based social networks like Twitter could be used a promising example to explore latent relationships of underlying mobility patterns. In a recently published paper (Steiger…

2016-11-16