Large-scale innovative vehicle trajectories dataset
Our vision is not only to become pioneers and promote unique open data for tackling diverse transportation related phenomena but also to put this dataset in the center of attention of research communities that can be attracted to work in the transportation field for the next era of mobility in cities.
What?
pNEUMA is a unique observatory for traffic congestion, with a dataset of traffic streams, at a finer scale and resolution than ever before. The data is available under CC BY-NC 4.0 license and hosted on its dedicated website. Deploying a swarm of drones over the city of Athens to record traffic streams is a first-of-its-kind experiment
Why Open?
Better monitoring of congestion is a crucial step to better understand the causes of congestion and facilitate more efficient strategies. By distributing this dataset, other researchers anywhere in the world will be able to reproduce, verify and build on existing models in various transportation thematic areas and to perform original research from an open benchmark dataset.
Who benefits?
The analysis of the data from this urban and complex environment can allow different kinds of transportation phenomena to be tested in both microscopic and macroscopic scale for different research disciplines of engineering (transportation, machine learning, data scientists) and social sciences that are not directly connected to the research interests and the expertise of the LUTS team. Young researchers will also benefit as this unique dataset can become the game-changer for the main issue of lack of data that PhD students face in their early years. Our vision is not only to become pioneers and promote unique open data for tackling diverse transportation related phenomena but also to put this dataset in the center of attention of research communities that can be attracted to work in the transportation field for the next era of mobility in cities.
How?
Until now, the Open Science Initiative of pNEUMA has been presented to researchers in 7 different International Conferences including the Transportation Research Board 99th Annual Meeting (the biggest conference in our discipline) in January 2020. During our interactions over the last months, more than 2500 unique visitors from more than 120 countries have visited the website.
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