Sensor City Mobility: The City of Assen as a “Living Lab” for Smart Mobility Solutions Using Sensor Data

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Sensor City Mobility: The City of Assen as a “Living Lab” for Smart Mobility Solutions Using Sensor Data

Cohen, Simon / Yannis, George

In the Dutch city of Assen, a large‐scale urban sensor network is realized. In the research project Sensor City Mobility, urban sensor network is used for the first time to develop and test use cases in the field of travel information and traffic management. This chapter discusses use cases for mobility, including Multimodal Travel Information and Guidance, Dynamic Traffic Management in‐car, Parking Guidance Service, Driving Style Monitor and TravelAlert. The value of travel information increases when a reliable prediction of the traffic situation can be generated so that real‐time travel information can be given to the travelers. In order to perform a real life experiment regarding travel information and traffic management, several conditions have to be fulfilled. The chapter describes the data obtaining sensor infrastructure and the technologies to bring the information to the participants. In order to design and evaluate the applications that are part of the use cases, offline testing is used in a simulation laboratory and through operational tests.