Project description
Florian Lainez and Felix Delattre, two members of the community-based OpenStreetMap community, have created a new participatory application called Jungle Bus. Available on smartphone (Android) since March 2017, it aims at collecting transport data to display them on the OpenStreetMap free map database. To do this, Jungle Bus offers a simple tool for volunteer contributors to geo-track the transport lines they use. A software then automatically reports on a map the lines of the bus lines. To test its relevance, the Accra mobility project was conducted during the summer of 2017 and the data collected made it possible to identify the entire transport network of Accra, the capital of Ghana. The 320-line network of local minibuses, called "Trotro", was surveyed by 9 local OpenStreetMap contributors, trained by Jungle Bus. This operation was carried out thanks to a partnership with the AFD (French Development Agency), the transitec mobility agency and the transport department of the metropolitan district of Accra (2M hab). Through this participatory tool, Jungle Bus aims to optimise urban mobility in developing countries, but also in the suburbs of Western metropolises where many transport companies often intervene, knowing that 60% of cities in the world do not have bus plans.
Tags: Big data, Connected transports, Crowdmapping, Crowdsourcing, Smart transports
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Project summary
- Organization Jungle Bus
- Location Ghana
- Creation date 09/05/2019
- Project category Smart CitySmart-mobility
