Improving Productivity, Sustainability and Safety with Telematics and Real Time Traffic

By Luigi Cappel

Agenda• GeoSmart• Preparing for The Future• Next Generation Road Data Capture• The Cost of Traffic Congestion• Real Time Traffic Services• Ecorouting and Sustainability• Camber and Rollover• Telematics• Route Optimisation• Location Based Business Intelligence

without GIS• The Future is Here

GeoSmart - What we do

CORE SERVICES

• CARTOGRAPHY

• CAR NAVIGATION

• FLEET MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS

• WEB MAPPING SOLUTIONS

• ROUTE2GO

• AA TRAFFIC

• BIonaMap

FIELD CAPTURE

Field Capture

GPS DrivingBusiness POIAmenity POI

Imagery AerialSatelliteTerrestrial

Cadastral Property data

Address NZ PostLINZCouncils

Live content

Real Time TrafficParkingFlight dataFerryBusEvents

Data Processing

& Aggregation

Preparing For the Future

• Change happens• NZ is a small market with a small population• NZ’ers are innovative• NZ has a difficult geography• Innovation is expensive, so is lack of

innovation

Next Gen Collaboration: GeoSmart Data Capture Vehicle - RAPIDcV

The Objectives

• To speed up the data capture process

• To improve accuracy

• To improve currency of data

• To capture more POI data

Some Features of the Car Road Attribute and Points of Interest Data Collection Vehicle

• Maps in real time to an absolute accuracy of +0.15m

• Incorporates 3 gyros so that it can continue mapping in real time if in the event of loosing the differential GPS signal

• Uses 5 cameras to record• Turn Restrictions• Road furniture (Signs, barriers, bridges, bus stops etc)• Lane counts and position of vehicle within the lane• Points of Interest

• Captures Streetscape 360 degree photos every 50m along the road

The Cost of Traffic Congestion

Roads never keep up with demand

Auckland Traffic CongestionIn 1999 Michael Barnett estimated the time-cost to businesses of Auckland’s traffic congestion at NZ1 billion annually.

Has it improved? What about the rest of the country?

Traffic Congestion is not Confined to Auckland

“A 9km trail of traffic is building on State Highway 1 after a truck crashed near Warkworth.”

Real Time Traffic Services

• Map display of the actual location of each road event

• Includes accidents, incidents, weather related events and road works.

• Shows both Current and Forecasted events.

• Forecasted events can be events coming up for each night only or can be for events well into the future

• Map display of Traffic flow information across NZ

• Can filter information based on areas

Available at www.AAMaps.co.nz and www.AARoadwatch.co.nz

Detailed Urban and Rural Traffic information

Example of AA Traffic working A car accident on Monday 20th Dec in the Karangahake Gorge – this was immediately visible in AA Traffic by LIVE Traffic flow data

Example of the level of granularity in urban areas

Journey Times - AARoadwatch

• We can select a specific route(s) and report live travel times for every minute showing:

– Live travel time– Normal travel time

(historical average)– Ideal Travel time

(no congestion)

• Routes can be on any main roads across NZ

• Roads are highlighted based on trip time performance:

– Black <25% ideal speed

– Red is 25-50% of ideal speed

– Yellow is 50-75% of ideal speed

– Green is >75% of ideal speed

Trip Times - Forecast Four months of averaged traffic speed data for the route from the Railway Station in Central Wellington to the Airport for each hour of the day

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TomTom funded independent research in 2011 has shown that if you are

informed, you can reduce your journey times by 15%

andIn the future, if 10% of drivers were all informed, the collective effect would be an additional 5% reduction in journey

times for all motorists

Australasian Real Time Traffic

TomTom HD TrafficConnected GPS Nav devices with SIM Cards can access real time traffic information anywhere there is coverage in NZ and Australia

Real Time Traffic and Fleet Visibility

• Real Time Traffic on GPS Navigation can alert the driver, hopefully before it is too late.

• Fleet systems can overlay your vehicles and the real time traffic congestion on the same map, operators can see the full picture.

• Trips can be rerouted or rescheduled• Customers or connecting services may be

alerted

Ecorouting and Sustainability

• Carbon Emissions• Inclinometer• Road Geometry• Implicit Turn Restrictions

Camber and Rollover

Telematics

Route Optimisation

• The domain of large operators• Road Transport Forum of NZ says:

– 5,095 individual road transport firms– 4,276 have 0-5 trucks– Many have mortgaged their homes and are totally

reliant on getting as much work as possible• Many don’t have technology solutions beyond

Fleet Management for RUC, their mobile phone or 2-way radio, and PC at the home office.

Route Optimisation

Route2GO Lite

Then What?• Just the beginning.

– Time constraints– Real Time optimisation based on current traffic conditions– Next best job based on current traffic conditions– Routes based on historic conditions for time of day or day

of week

Location Based Business Intelligence Without GIS

Information is Power

The Future is Here

Thankyou

Luigi CappelGeoSmart

luigi.cappel@geosmart.co.nz