Tuesday, September 22, 2009

IQP - Moving Around Venice

Our predecessor group, the Moving Around Venice project "refined tools to assist in managing Venice’s boat and pedestrian traffic. [They] monitored boat traffic at 19 intersections in Venice to improve the accuracy of a boat traffic model being developed by the Redfish Group. The completed model can be used to simulate the impact of changes in boat traffic regulations. Concurrently, [they] developed a pedestrian monitoring methodology to characterize behaviors of pedestrians in Venice. [They] used these behaviors to develop a model that can be used to manage plateatici (public spaces rented to private entities), which frequently encroach on pedestrian thoroughfares." By greatly expanding the pedestrian model to achieve the scope of the already actualized boat model, we hope to reach a point where the two models can be integrated, forming a comprehensive image of Venetian mobility. We will be expanding on the multimedia aspects especially, as getting the data out of the model is as if not more important than getting it in.

Some notable videos and links:
The map of venice and autonomous boat traffic
3D video of typical conditions found in Campo San Filippo e Giacomo
Netlogo project code

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