The future role of video camera data in transport planning?

摘要

The so-called revolution in big data is now well underway (Mayer-Schb'nberger and Cukier, 2013). But in the transport sector, one potentially hugely significant data source, the video camera, still seems relatively underdeveloped. The purpose of this paper is therefore to map out how and why this state of affairs is unlikely to persist for long. Specifically, the paper first reports the current approach to using camera data in terms of data acquisition, data archiving, data analysis and the implications for transport planning. It then sets out how camera technology and the market in which it operates are changing over time, and speculates on how these changes might influence transport planning in the near future.