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Analyzing Vehicle Movement Data: Current Challenges and Future Promises

By |November 13th, 2018|

Eimar M. Boesjes, CEO, Moonshadow Mobile
Adrian Pearmine, National Director for Smart Cities & Connected Vehicles, DKS Associates
ITE Journal, November 2018

Transportation decisions are driven by data. In many cases, significant investment decisions from transportation planning and analysis have been based on limited data sets using traffic data collected over a period of a week or less. But, we know transportation demand and patterns are dynamic. Traffic varies daily as a result of incidents, special events, weather conditions, holidays and more. Traffic also varies from year-to-year based on factors such as the economy, changes in travelers’ choices, and new development. In […]

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Deriving Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimates from Connected Vehicle Data

By |October 31st, 2018|

Eimar M. Boesjes, CEO, Moonshadow Mobile
Joshua Skov, Industry Mentor, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon
October 26, 2018

What does the carbon footprint from transportation look like? In particular, how could you map it?

Typically, carbon footprinting exercises for local and regional jurisdictions deliver highly aggregated results. Even when the unit of analysis is geographic, the data is all about pie charts and tables. The results for New York City are…for all of New York City. Meaningful and important, but it leaves us missing something truly geographic in nature. Moonshadow Mobile recently completed a proof of concept (PoC) to derive greenhouse gas […]

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DB4IoT with INRIX Trips: Generate Origin-Destination Matrices in Seconds

By |August 21st, 2018|

DB4IoT with INRIX Trips delivers the capability to generate Origin-Destination matrices from databases with hundreds of millions of waypoint records within seconds.  This makes generating O/D matrices an interactive process.  Users can change the time periods, date range or vehicle types and DB4IoT generates the O/D matrix automatically.  This video shows how quick and easy it is to generate an O/D matrix in DB4IoT with INRIX Trips.

DB4IoT, Moonshadow’s database engine for the Internet of Moving Things, was purpose-built for time-series geospatial data about moving objects (IoMT data). DB4IoT is faster and more efficient than traditional database solutions in delivering […]

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Moonshadow Mobile Partners with INRIX to Deliver Powerful Travel Pattern Analytics Platform

By |June 4th, 2018|

Novi, MI – June 4, 2018 – Today, Moonshadow Mobile, Inc. announced a partnership with INRIX, the world leader in transportation analytics and connected car services, to incorporate INRIX Trips Reports into Moonshadow’s DB4IoT platform. The solution offers transportation agencies an intuitive, cloud- based origin-destination analytics platform for understanding the trips consumers and fleets make over time on maps, charts, graphs and animations.

“DB4IoT with INRIX Trips transforms and optimizes operations for departments of transport and public transit agencies, informs short- and long-term transportation planning and engineering efforts, and unleashes the potential of connected vehicle data,” said Eimar Boesjes, CEO at […]

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Making Better Transit Planning Decisions by Identifying ITS Data Errors

By |April 13th, 2018|

Over the last few decades public transit agencies have installed CAD/AVL systems on their buses for Computer Aided Dispatch and Automatic Vehicle Location. CAD/AVL systems capture data measurements of the location of the bus, number of passengers, delay, speed and many other variables, often as frequently as every five seconds. The result is a huge trove of data that can provide a wealth of information and insights about the operation of a transit agency. Data in these large quantities, however, always contains a significant number of errors. If charts, graphs and even complete dashboard solutions are based on faulty data […]

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Route Analyst GTFS Presentations in Seattle

By |December 13th, 2017|

Moonshadow CEO, Eimar Boesjes, introduced Route Analyst GTFS to a number of transit agencies and ITS professionals from the greater Seattle area on December 11th and 12th. Our partners at DKS Associates hosted a session at their offices on the 11th and Boesjes demoed the technology at the ITS Washington vendor showcase held at the University of Washington HUB on the 12th.

Route Analyst GTFS creates speed, delay and headway maps, charts and graphs instantly from your GTFS and GTFS-RealTime feeds.

Route Analyst GTFS is cloud-based database and analytics software for the Internet of Moving Things that empowers transit agencies with an […]

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