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U.S. Department of Transportation
Crowdsourcing
§Value to
DCM: Opt-in
crowdsourcing could lead to systematic capture of traveler trip data including itinerary and traveler
behavior/response data
(transform ATIS and multi-modal corridor management?)
(transform ATIS and multi-modal corridor management?)
§Challenges:
Structuring public-private partnerships, privacy
§Practice of tapping into
the collective intelligence of the public at large to complete tasks that a
company would normally either perform itself or outsource to a known entity (blend
of crowd and outsourcing)
□Improves
productivity
□Minimizes labor and
research expenses
□Consumers involved in
creating product
§Crowdsourced Traveler
Data
□Inrix:
provides traffic information using crowdsourced traffic data)
□Waze:
provides 100% crowsourced, free real-time traffic information on mobile devices