MobilitySense

Mobility is a prototype application that has been developed in the context of the EU-funded project Live+Gov (http://liveandgov.eu) with the aim to exploit the capabilities of modern smartphones in order to, on the one hand, offer the citizen personalized information about smart ways for commuting during the rush hour, and, on the other hand, turn the citizen into a living sensor of the traffic status of his city.

More specifically, the Mobility application offers the following functionalities:

- Uses a map-based interface to inform citizens in real-time about the tram lines that deviate from the scheduled time-plan.

- Offers a personalized view of the city’s traffic situation that includes only the tram lines that are estimated as relevant to the citizen based on his current position.

- Offers the possibility to receive in the mobile phone the alerts generated from the city’s official regional transport office, about important problems in the city’s traffic network (e.g. Tram line 4 out of service from 15:00 – 17:00 due to maintenance).

- Offers the possibility to share written messages (including a photo and GPS coordinates) about unexpected incidents that are likely to influence the good service of the city’s traffic network (e.g. Tram Line 8 delayed due to a car accident) in order to timely inform your fellow citizens.

- Offers a mechanism for the recording of the daily citizen’s routes when commuting in the city and for (optionally) submitting these routes to the city’s regional transport office in order to contribute in optimizing the city’s traffic network.

The Mobility app is operational only for the city of Helsinki – Finland.