RECAPPING Data Sharing for Mobility for North Carolina Research Triangle as a 2021 Readiness Challenge Winner
Morrisville, NC applied to the Smart Cities Council for a grant to accelerate the reduction of traffic congestion in Wake County, NC. Morrisville applied in early 2021 and after a thorough review of its plans, was declared a Readiness Challenge Winner in the summer of 2021. Morrisville had sought assistance as the number one complaint of its residents was ‘traffic congestion’ and data showed that Morrisville and other residents in the Raleigh metropolitan region drive more miles in their cars in any other metropolitan region in the US.
See list at bottom of this article as to participants.
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Session 4 'In-Person' - December 9, 2021 Readiness Workshop Summary
After an introduction from Jennifer Robinson, SAS's Director Local Government Solutions and Mayor TJ Cawley of Morrisville. The workshop participants discussed the following topics:
Importance of Multi-Modal. How to convince the public that intelligent mobility with its emphasis on multi-modal transport was just as important an investment as building and maintaining roads.
Data Maturity. How to start the data sharing process when each participant had different levels of data governance maturity, budgets and systems.
What did a intelligent mobility platform look like? Here we had -
- George Karrayanis from Honeywell educated participants about City Suite, Honeywell's platform, which is being used extensively as a data aggregation, integration and analysis platform throughout the world (at least seventy (70) cities.)
- Ton DeVries from Bentley talked about how roads are 'assets' just like buildings and can be visualized from a data perspective with Bentley's Digital Twins solutions.
- Lisa Brown from Johnson Controls reviewed Open Blue, its digital twins solution which aggregates and visualizes multiple data streams.
Specific use cases -
- Reducing traffic congestion with vehicle and infrastructure data was discussed by Jim Trogdon from SAS with the use of 'streaming connected vehicle data.'
- Jamie Cleveland from Duke Energy Sustainablity Solutions reviewed how video could be used to detect congestion patterns and allow cities to re-route traffic and/or upgrade infrastructure where most needed.
- Energy efficiency was addressed by George Reed from Siradel who showed the audience how Siradel's Digital Twins platform gathers APIs from different IoT networks, in order to act on and coordinate the city’s infrastructural and equipment performance, specifically energy usage.
- Reducing carbon emissions was reviewed by Nate Breyer from Azuga, where he described a project for Oregon where Azuga's system tracked vehicle driving patterns and could be used to manage and potentially reduce congestion and emissions.
- Safety and preventing incidents can be enhanced by Oracle's analytics solution as discussed by Mark Zannoni from Oracle. For example, Oracle could identify “near misses” of accidents, leading to safer streets for pedestrians, bicyclists, and all motorists, whereas “near misses” are otherwise never recorded or inventoried.
- Economic development is a key benefit from traffic optimization as revealed by Natalia Summerville, also from SAS.
- Cybersecurity solutions were reviewed by Brian Wane and Kelby Price from XQ Messaging. Given that roads can be critical infrastructure, making them data collection platforms increases the risk of illegal penetration and misuse.
Data Life Cycle
The first afternoon session, led by Curt Savoie from IDC and Amber Cobb from RiOT focused on the data life cycle. The participants specifically reviewed the data life cycle -
- What data is available?
- How is it collected?
- How is it communicated?
- How is it analyzed?
- How is it protected?
- How is it archived?
Data Governance
The second afternoon session, led by Curt Savoie from IDC and Philip Bane from the Council. This session reviewed the different types of data sharing frameworks including data trusts.
Fourth Working Session: Roadmap for Data Sharing
- Data Maturity (assessment)
- Data Vocabulary (common language)
- Data Enterprise Catalog (what is available for sharing?)
- Data Ontology (what are we sharing)
- Data Capabilities (capacity and training)
- Data Governance (policy and legal)
Moving Forward
A final session was led by Rick Ralph, CIO of Morrisville and Adam Spillman, TJCOG about how the public participants could start a data-sharing process. It had been agreed that TJ COG would be a repository for the shared data, coordinating with the working group previously formed by the two MPO(s)
Following Sessions Were Virtual
Session 3 – November 10, 2021
- Philip Bane, SCC
- Teresa Tapia, Customer Success Manager StreetLight Data, Inc
- Noam Maital, CEO Waycare Technologies
- Carlos Rivero, Chief Data Officer Commonwealth of Virginia
- Bonnie Danahy CDO Wake County Government
Session 2 – October 27, 2021
- Philip Bane, SCC
- Matt Day, Triangle J Council of Governments
- Bonnie Dahany, Wake County
- Mike Mclanahan, Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority
- Amber Cobb, RiOT
Session 1- October 13, 2021
- Philip Bane, SCC
- Janet Rives, Bridgestone Americas
- Rick Ralph and Billy Whitehead, Town of Morrisville
December 9 Readiness Workshop Participants
Town of Morrisville
Mayor TJ Cawley, Rick Ralph, Billy Whitehead, Danielle Kittredge, Danny Reilly and Caleb Allred
TJCOG
Adam Spillman and Lindsey Whiteson
Wake County
Bonnie Dahany and Jakeema Dawkins
Raleigh
Noah Otto and James Alberque,
Cary
Nicole Raimundo, Melissa Rineer, Patrice Walker and Terry Yates
Wilson
Linwood Tyndall
RDU
Michael McLanahan
Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro MPO
Casey (KC) Chae, PhD
Apex
Erika Sacco
NCDOT
Kelly Wells, Kerry Morrow, David Keilson, Tae-Gyu Kim, Ph.D., Keith Dixon and Brian Murphy, PE
Holly Springs
Jeff Wilson
Smart Cities Council
Philip Bane, Peter Murray and Connie Heath
SAS
Jennifer Robinson, Natalia Summerville, Jennifer Conner, Jim Trogdon, Natalia Summerville, Lee Ann Dietz, Jane Howell and Jerry Williams
Johnson Controls
Lisa Brown
DUKE Energy Sustainable Solutions
Michael Kilpatrick, Kasey Gridley and Jamie Cleveland
LVX
Mark Verheyen
Siradel
George Reed
Bentley
Ton de Vries
Honeywell
George Karayannis
RIoT
Amber Cobb
IDC
Curt Savoie
Bridgestone
Janet Rives
Azuga
Nate Bryer
Oracle
Arun Padmanadhan and Mark Zannoni
XQ Messaging
Brian Wane and Kelby Price
