Driving Safe Transportation using Digital Solutions

The following section provides references to relevant webpages to existing use of emerging technologies to help citizens access safe, accessible, and efficient transport systems

Lighthouse examples:

• In the Philippines, with Pasig City and Sakay.ph have launched a free shuttle service where locations can be tracked in real-time using the sakay.ph mobile application.
• The People’s Republic of Democratic China public transport systems have new health standards, contact tracing, data-driven tracking, and scheduling systems. The country has also revived bike sharing; improved urban efficiency of freight systems using big data.
• Cities like Berlin, Bogota, and countries like New Zealand are conducting “tactical urbanism” by reallocating space to accommodate and promote walking and cycling.
• An app in Illawarra, Australia informs users of empty train seats by calculating the weight of each train axle (note: the article is from 2018, but this can be useful in planning trips and avoiding overcrowding in the time of COVID-19).

Relevant partnerships and datasets:

• International public datasets available including Google Community Mobility Reports and Apple Mobility Data during this time of the pandemic.
• Transit datasets including Waze Philippines provides aggregated data for the Philippines, showing the weekly changes in traffic jams and alerts over the last 12 months for major metropolitan cities.
  •      Waze is sharing city and country-level changes in kilometers driven daily.