Project Overview

Coord enables software applications to connect with transport options like ride-hail, bike-share, and car-share. A single integration to operate many partnerships.

Organisation

Coord

Project Context

In addition to long-standing demand from private cars, taxis, buses, trams and delivery trucks, now ride-hail services, bike lanes, bike-share stations, car-shares, scooters and e-bikes are also competing for the curb. This increase in demand often leads to congestion at the curb, which can have rippling effects on traffic flow and safety.

Project Innovation

The app stores collected curb rule data and makes it available for non-commercial use through a color-coded map known as Curb Explorer. There are two components to digitizing the curb. The first is collecting information about the curb features on the street, such as parking signs, curb cuts and paints, hydrants, and bus stops. This occurs through a smartphone app that leverages augmented reality technology to help 'code the curb'.

The second phase of digitizing the curb translates the collected data into user-friendly information on what rules apply to which curbs at any given time. This process takes into account municipal-specific definitions and idiosyncrasies and attempts to resolve any conflicting rules. The process also incorporates the city's parking meter data to add price information resulting in a liner-referenced dataset that details how a person or vehicle is able to every stretch of the curb on any given day and time. The app has built in the GeoJSON format, making the data easily queryable and mappable for as many software systems as possible.