The era of the automobile has seriously degraded the quality of urban life through costly travel and visible environmental effects. A new urban planning paradigm must be at the heart of our road map for the years to come, the one where, within minutes, inhabitants can access their basic living needs by bike or on foot. In this talk, I’ll recount some data-driven projects we conducted at QCRI to improve general mobility in the fast-growing city of Doha and show how these projects developed into real solutions used by thousands of taxi and delivery drivers for routing, mapping, and travel time estimation. In the second part, I’ll focus on some novel insights into the interplay between the distributions of facilities and populations in various cities that maximize accessibility over the existing road networks.
Language: English
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