Building A Smarter Cities & Traffic Jarosław Jackowiak ISV Technology Manager Academic Initiative Architect IBM Software Jaroslaw.Jackowiak@pl.ibm.com
In a small business district in Los Angeles, driving around for parking in one year generated the equivalent of 38 trips around the world, burned 47,000 gallons of gas, emitted 730 tons of carbon dioxide. Congested roadways cost $78 billion annually in the form of 4.2 billion lost hours and 2.9 billion gallons of wasted gas. Energy loss
SMART TRAFFIC IBM is working with Brisbane, London, Singapore and Stockholm to deploy smarter traffic systems. At least 20 other cities have active bids to do the same. Stockholm has seen approximately 20 percent less traffic, a 12 percent drop in emissions and a reported 40,000 additional daily users of public transportation.
Swedish Road Administration Breaking gridlock with a smart road use management system Business Challenge: Despite a progressive public transport network that serves 70 percent of commuters in Stockholm, the roads running through the city s central business district handled an average of 450,000 vehicles per day, making major traffic jams a fact of life. City politicians working closely with the Swedish Road Administration (SRA) believed that road usage is elastic and could be shaped in a way that keeps congestion within a targeted range. But to shape road usage patterns, road authorities needed a way to measure, track and charge for road usage accurately and dynamically a solution with reliable performance during even the heaviest traffic flow. Solution: IBM Global Business Services was engaged to design, build and operate a fully automated road use charging solution that employs advanced automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) and radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies. The system s function is to sense and identify each car that crosses an invisible ring delineating the city s central business district either through an RFID transponder or a visual image and process payments for it. Stockholm s road charging system is designed to be a model of speed, power and automation. Benefits: Pilot showed 20 to 25 % reduction in traffic volume in the city center Significant reduction in economic costs associated with traffic congestion Generation of an estimated 50 Million per year to be channeled into further reducing congestion making the initiative virtually self-sustaining It s important for Stockholm to become an exciting part of Europe from the perspective of both economic growth and ecological stability. We now have a modern traffic management system that the rest of Europe and the world can learn from. Annika Billström, Mayor of Stockholm, Sweden Solution Components IBM Global Business Services IBM Global Technology Services Tivoli Security Solutions WebSphere Red Hat SAP
Implementation 18 gates (road side control points) Identification and charging vehicles Tax per passage 10-20 SEK Maximum per day tax is 60 SEK Charged to owner of the car Paid from bank account, via Web or retailers
How it works? Payment is debited from driver s account camera photographs the car s front transceiver signals the vehicle s onboard transponder second camera photographs the rear license plate second laser beam, triggering the second camera first laser beam trigering the transceiver
To separate domestic and international vehicles and identify the vehicle (owner) by camera was a challenge
The OCR solution is good, but no system is perfect!
Benefits During the spring of 2006, 40,000 more travelers in Stockholm public transport Drop in emissions from road traffic by 14 percent in the inner-city Travelling down town during rush hours is easier
Number of passages reduced by 90 000 to 115 000 per day (20 25%) compared to the year before 600 000 500 000 2005 400 000 End of trial period 300 000 2006 200 000 100 000 Au g Ju l Ju n M ay Ap r M ar Fe b Ja n 0
Media was critical before go alive System launching day Focused on the expected chaos
Immediate positive press focused on the huge impact One day after
System performance exceeds all expectation Some weeks after System performance exceeds all expectation
The swing in the opinion came after 3 months 60% Referendum in the City och Stockholm 50% 40% YES: 51,7% 30% NO: 45,6% 20% Good idea Bad idea 10% 0% Sep 05 Oct 05 Nov 05 Dec 06 Jan 06 Feb 06 Mar 06 Apr 06 Maj 06 Jun 06
Interesting links Smarter Planet by IBM Traffic system in Stockholm at YouTube Stockholm s syndrom at WSJ Driving change in Stockholm at IBM site Andy Standfork-Clark Innovator site Floodnet project at envisense site
SYSTEMS SOFTWARE SERVICES FOR A SMARTER WORLD Jarosław Jackowiak ISV Technology Manager Academic Initiative Architect IBM Software Jaroslaw.Jackowiak@pl.ibm.com