City Management Platform Using Big Data from People and Traffic Flows

Michio Morioka, Ph.D. Kyoji Kuramochi Yusuke Mishina Takayuki Akiyama Naoyuki Taniguchi OVERVIEW: In cities in Japan and elsewhere, progress is being made toward the creation of smart cities, with demands for the optimization and efficient operation of social systems that include more sophisticated transportation systems, reductions in CO2 emissions, and the upgrading of aging infrastructure. The widespread adoption in recent years of technologies such as smartphones, smartcards, and various sensors has made it possible to collect, store, and visualize information on urban activities such as people and traffic flows. As part of its Intelligent Operations, Hitachi is developing city management platform solutions that support the efficient operation of cities by collecting and analyzing this big data from people and traffic flows.