What? A test is currently underway where we have installed a GPS transmitter with alarms on electric bicycles used in home care. The idea is to make them less prone to theft, but the information from the GPS transmitters can also be more useful. By entering the information from the bikes' GPS to the city's computer factory Smart City Lab, we get an overview of how the bikes move through the city, where it goes slowly, which shortcuts are taken and the like. It is valuable knowledge for both those who plan the routes in home care, but also the city building administration to get information about which roads are used the most, and which are avoided.
Why? Helsingborg is a good city to be a cyclist in, and although there is a lot of knowledge about how we move in the city, today there is no reliable way to follow cyclists. Knowing how cyclists move is important for urban and traffic planning, but the traditional ways of gathering knowledge about cyclists are expensive and static. Through GPS-connected bikes, we can get free access to real-time data on how bikes move.
How? The GPS transmitters are installed, so the work consists of reading and transmitting information to the database.
Objectives: More knowledge about how bicycles are used. More and faster recovered stolen bicycles
Based on the challenge: ”What does it take to create a data-driven city?”
Source: https://innovation.helsingborg.se/initiativ/gps-uppkopplade-elcyklar-i-stadens-tjanst/
JJ comments: Go further. As simple as that ;)
The AIBC team: Joel Frihammar David Andersen Viktor Öberg Oliver Söderström (client lead) Rikard Sivard
The HBG team: Daniel Bergholm Eric Semb Johan Müllern-Aspegren
We have been gathering a lot of movement data in this project, consisting of location data from 9 bikes used in home health care in Helsingborg, and bike movement in Malmö from Hövding. Additionally we will get Voi location data from the scooters in Helsingborg that tracks this (pending the dataset).
As for our delivery, we have three different approaches. Each centered around location data, but also from the need of the client (HBG) and derived from a workshop held with them.