Collective benefits in traffic during mega events via the use of information technologies.

ABSTRACT: Information technologies today can inform each of us about the route with the shortest time, but they do not contain incentives to manage travellers such that we all get collective benefits in travel times. To that end we need travel demand estimates and target strategies to reduce the traffic volume from the congested roads during peak hours in a feasible way. During large events, the traffic inconveniences in large cities are unusually high, yet temporary, and the entire population may be more willing to adopt collective recommendations for collective benefits in traffic. In this paper, we integrate, for the first time, big data resources to estimate the impact of events on traffic and propose target strategies for collective good at the urban scale. In the context of the Olympic Games i

SUBMITTER: Xu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5414910 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature