Within the mFUND research initiative, the Federal Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (BMVI) has been funding research and development proposals for digital data-driven applications for Mobility 4.0. Among them is SNmultimodal, a project executed at the Chair of Cartography of the Technische Universität München (TUM). This pilot study demonstrates the feasibility of enriching individually tailored mobility routes with the information on different user’s needs, modes of transport and event data from Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and social networks. Case studies of the urban areas in Berlin and Munich are implemented for this preliminary project. The proposed methodology covers the acquisition of geo- and semantic data from public domain repositories (i.e. mCLOUD), VGI (i.e. OpenStreetMap ) and social networks (i.e. Twitter), as well as processes of data transformation, harmonisation and map matching. As a base for multimodal networks, public transportation services (e.g. buses, trains, trams) and modern urban modes of mobility (car- and bike sharing) were chosen. Traffic network datasets were converted into network graphs of the individual modes of transport and merged to a multimodal dataset using the switch point concept. These switch points act as connecters at places where a change of the travel modality is possible. The upcoming work will concentrate on extending routing schemes by integrating context-aware information such as landmarks, city lights and negative traffic events detected from social media. The visual techniques and tools for conveying multimodal navigation options will be tested within a web-based prototype application. In order to represent the routing possibilities, easy to grasp cartographic representations are created for individual travels. User-oriented routing suggestions will be displayed according to different map zoom levels, in order to assist users in their choice and provide step-by-step movement instructions. The proposed approach has the potential to extend currently available route planning systems and to improve personalized routing visualizations in the real-time navigation applications. In the final step of this project it is planned to develop a mobile app that runs the extended multimodal navigation for the two pilot cities and offers user-oriented routing enhanced by visualisation of event-based traffic events.     «

Within the mFUND research initiative, the Federal Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (BMVI) has been funding research and development proposals for digital data-driven applications for Mobility 4.0. Among them is SNmultimodal, a project executed at the Chair of Cartography of the Technische Universität München (TUM). This pilot study demonstrates the feasibility of enriching individually tailored mobility routes with the information on different user’s needs, modes of transport and event d...     »