Waze Partnership

Waze Partnership

Communicating Planned Road ClosuresEd Blayney

9/23/151

Agenda

• Project Contributors

• Background

• Project Execution

• Results

• Waze Informational Materials

• Going Forward

• Questions

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Project Contributors

• Phil Gardner, PW GIS

• Solita Johnson, PW GIS

• Justin O’Brien, PW GIS

• Al Andrews, PW

• Tonya Richardson, PW

• Harold Adams, PW

• Harry Kron, DoIT

• Matt Gotth-Olsen, DoIT

• Carol Boyle, LMPD

• Jermaine Burks, Codes

• Diane Atzinger, Codes

• Ben Anderson, Codes

• Jane Poole, LOJIC

• Jess Hamner, LOJIC

• Matt Gantner, DoIT

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Background

• Mayor’s Office– Wanted the ability to visually communicate

planned closures with the public in near-real time

• LOJIC– #1 strategic priority to develop a road-closure app

• Environmental Factors– LMG had tried to solve this problem twice before

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Project Execution

• Project Management (PM) Process– Followed Metro PM standards– Documented the process for organizational learning

• Two phases– Phase 1: Created a Road Closure Data API

• API = data-feed

– Phase 2: Fixed Internal Communication Issues

• Concurrently: Established Waze partnership– Connected Citizens Platform– Mutually beneficial relationship

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Project Execution – 1st Phase

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Project Process – 1st Phase

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Project Execution – 2nd Phase (Before)

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Project Execution – 2nd Phase (After)

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Results

• Louisville Metro now has the ability to communicate with the public about road closures in near real-time

• Open Data Sets (In progress)– Public Works planned road closure feed– Waze’s crowd-sourced data feed

• Improved internal communication– Reduced touch points in the process from 41 to 19– Closer to having a one source of truth for planned road closures

• Consolidated communication plan with the public– Eliminated redundant information caches with partial information

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Waze Informational Materials

• Video explaining Connected Citizens Platform

– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrFqwiBOYrY

• Waze Live Map

– Go to Louisville, KY to see all of our reports!

– https://www.waze.com/livemap

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Going Forward

• Waze Partnership– 1 of 40 international partners

• Most quickly established partnership out of all 40• 5th U.S. city involved with the program

– Boston, LA, D.C., and John’s Creek (ATL area)

– Two-way data sharing agreement• Free• No significant reoccurring work LMG • LMG gets access to Waze data from Louisville Metro area

– LMG can use the data for a variety of purposes:• Supplements our general traffic monitoring• Improving traffic flows (Rio de Janiero, Brazil)• Pothole identification (Boston, Washington D.C.)

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Going Forward

• Internal Processes– Continue to improve the information going into the

data feed w/ follow-on projects• Emergency Closures

• Flooding

– Integrate the road closure data feed into internal operations

– Use the Waze data for a variety of historical data-analysis projects• Congestion mapping

• Corridor Safety

• Incident confirmation

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Questions?

Press Conference

Mayor’s Gallery

10:30 am

Thursday, 9/24/15

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