Description
Module/Solution Overview
The City4Age Madrid pilot Trip Viewer is a Web application that can also be deployed in mobiles. It has two main functionalities: (1) Displaying the trips of one or more persons in a selected date on the Madrid Region map. Each person is displayed with a different colour and one can distinguish the sequence of points where the person has either entered or exited a mode of transportation (bus, metro, suburban train). The viewer also indicates the POIs that the person has visited and gives a summary of the medical data gathered through the smart wristband (if available), and (2) Displaying heat maps for one traveller in a period of time. This information allows visualizing the areas of the city where a person travels during a period of time.
The data is anonymised and managed as aggregated information when necessary and has been gathered in compliance with the GDPR regulation.
Innovation
The City4Age Madrid Trip Viewer main innovation is that it allows to graphically analyse and determine transportation patterns of one or more travellers, in our case it has been tested with data from our sample of elderly citizens.
Business Impact
The application allows to determine whether a user has deviated from its usual transportation pattern and thus an intervention is due. At the same time, the summary of medical data gathered through the wristband complements the information, i.e. medical data may indicate the cause of pattern deviations. It could also be used to compare transport patterns of the general population against those of elderly citizens. Having this information, CRTM can adapt their services and prepare publicity campaigns to improve the mobility of elderly adults, and provide new accessibility services that support the active and healthy ageing in the city of Madrid.
On the one hand, public and private non-profit elderly associations like Elderly Day Centers or other senior citizen associations can visualize the data on their associates with the application, and may decide to intervene if necessary. On the other hand geriatricians, practitioners and professional caretakers may enhance their services to the elderly end-users by analysing the visualized information.
Interoperability
The Madrid pilot Trip Viewer receives as input csv files provided by the Madrid pilot Application, the public transport information gathered by the users’ Transportation Card, and the smart wristband information. This information is combined with the geographical information of the transportation stops provided by the Open Data Portal http://datos.crtm.es/. Combining all the data available, the system creates json files for each day with the following information for each user: time, mean of transportation, line name, stop name. These json files are used to display the geographical information on the website using LeafLet, a javascript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps.
Stakeholders profile
Health related professionals and other caretakers that would like to determine patterns of mobility of elderly citizens.
Elderly Day Centers and other senior citizens associations.
Cities’ administrators and city service providers, especially Public Transportation providers that can adapt their services and prepare publicity campaigns to improve the mobility of elderly adults.
Competitors
There are individual applications that allow to visualize chains of transportation points of travellers and medical information through wristbands but there is no existing application that integrates the data from the three sources: the POIs that have been visited, the smart wristband, and the data from the public transportation system. The Madrid trip viewer does this integration and has two modes of visualization: chains of transport points and heat maps.
Future availability
Maintained internally for research purposes.
The module will be extended to continue working on this research area.
Contact info
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CRTM
Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid is a public institution with the aim to improve the mobility and accessibility in the Madrid Region by the identification of effectiveness and improvement derived from the public efforts made by Madrid Regional Government. Founded in 1985 by Law of Madrid Community Parliament, CRTM is the Madrid public transport authority integrating the whole public transport system in the region, with big public operators, as Metro Madrid (underground), EMT de Madrid (urban buses), Cercanías-Renfe (commuter railway), 31 interurban private bus operators under concession system, and 4 private metro and light rail operators under concession system.
