Unlocking Data Innovations for Smarter Urban Transport

Project Summary:

Transport data is increasingly available from various sources, including transport operators, municipal systems, crowdsourcing, citizen reporting, in-road and in-vehicle sensors, and engineering data gathered from cell phone towers. This World Bank KGGTF-funded green growth implementation program would leverage data availability to help prevent urban traffic congestions, reduce environmental damage, and improve lives. For starters, the program will develop a methodology for evaluating the potential and the obstacles in using open data sources and make action-oriented recommendations. Piloted in several cities, the methodology will build on the World Bank’s Open Data Readiness Assessment tool. Such smart transport solutions can help ensure energy efficiency, aid green growth, and increase productivity and competitiveness, especially in urban environments.

List of Activities:

• Support 3 client countries wishing to adopt groundbreaking Open Government Data (OGD) initiatives in the Transport sector int heir most congested society to enable more environmentally sustainable modal choices, allow optimization of journeys to reduce congestion.
• Utilize the learnings from Open Data initiatives, innovatively apply traffic data to help prevent urban traffic congestions and reduce congestion.
• Develop a structured methodology to assess the potential and the obstacles to the use of open Data and other data sources to improve public transport, private transport, and information services based on data, and to produce action-oriented recommendations for the implementation of Open Data to address transport objectives.

Outcomes:

Output 1:

• Forming Open Transport Data Assessment methodology

Output 2:

• Conducting Open Transport Data Assessments

Output 3:

• City Open Transport Data Action Plans

Output 4:

• Dissemination activities of assessment results

Output 5:

• Early implementation support activities

Output 6:

• Open Transport Data Guide

Output 7:

• Training for the World Bank staff on Open Transport Data 

Outcomes:

The customized methodology will inform the project design for transport initiative within the Bank and improved overall impact of the Bank’s operations in transport sector enhancing green growth. Open Transport Data assessments resulted into action plans for the urban transport open data systems that help reduce carbon emissions, improve energy efficiency and build transportation schemes that reduce environmental damage. Open Transport Data assessments catalyzed lending projects to improve transport information and attracted transport investment. Transport is the first area in which the World Bank will have had the opportunity to develop and apply a Green-Growth focused sector-specific methodology to use Open Data to enhance the green credentials of mainstream projects. Based on this experience, similar adaptations of the methodology to meet green growth requirements in other sectors can be development.

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others:

• WBG internal partners: collaboration with the Bank’s Open Government Data Working Group, Transport Anchor Unit, and Regional Sector Units of the Bank for implementation
• Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Data Institute: generation of in-kind operational support for the activity.

K-Partners
Korean government agencies: develop and fine-tune the assessment methodology

• Korea Transport Institute (KOTI): sectoral cooperation
• National Information Society Agency (NIA): methodology framework development
• Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) and Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs (MOGAHA): implementation of the project