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Limerick City approached Civic with a need to monitor the Active Travel uptake and trends across the City's Public Transport and Cycle Lane corridors, as they embarked on a redesign of the City's road network, intending to make the City more appealing to Active Travel users.
Limerick is the 3rd largest city in the Republic of Ireland, and is seen nationally as an early adopter of many Smart Cities solutions. Limerick is the first city in Ireland to appoint a Chief Digital Officer to lead the development of digital strategy, doubling the use of data to create equal opportunities for all citizens and accelerate the development of Smart Streets.
Active Travel (or Active Mobility) is the promotion of the transport of people or goods through non-motorized means, and Limerick City were embarking on a development plan to redesign their road network to encourage Active Mobility options.
Our goal for our system was to accurately count, classify and analyse the users of Limerick's road network to track the uptake of Active Mobility Users.
The future of smart cities is trust. Trust in the collection of data in an ethical and responsible manner. Trust in the transformation of this data into information and meaningful analytics. And a trust that the collected data can be fed back to the right people to have a positive impact on our cities. Ipsum Cloud was developed to help cities accurately visualise traffic object data collected from roadside radars and sensors.
For Limerick City, over 100 sensors were installed to gather data on how people travelled in and out of the city, portraying the modal split across various transport modes, from pedestrians and cyclists to motor vehicles. The solution provided real-time counts and classifications across ten vehicle types, from pedestrians and cyclists to motorcyclists and heavy goods vehicles.
The tool enabled Limerick’s data scientists to monitor Active Travel trends, offering city planners real-time feedback on the impact of their schemes. This data has validated the use of Limerick City's new Active Travel Routes whilst also benefiting other departments and projects un-associated with the original use-case such are Place-Making, Public Realm, Tourism & Noise Pollution projects.
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