enviroCar - Crowd Sourced Traffic and Environment Data for Sustainable Mobility

This paper introduces the enviroCar project which aims at crowd sourcing the collection of environmental and traffic data. For this purpose a data collection architecture relying on onboard sensors of cars, mobile phones and web services has been developed. Besides providing drivers with precise infor- mation about their driving style and its environmental/economical impact, the enviroCar system offers a new and complementary source of data for traffic planning tasks. The resulting data sets are published as anonymised open data and thus serve as a basis for collaboration between citizens, scientists as well as traffic planners in the sense of citizen science.