DB4IoT News

Introducing Arterial Insights

By |May 12th, 2021|

DKS Associates and Moonshadow Mobile are introducing Arterial Insights: an online tool to measure the performance of traffic corridors and signalized intersections using connected vehicle (CV) data from tens of millions of vehicles.

Fig. 1. Segment Travel Times per Hour in Arterial Insights

It can be time consuming and expensive to measure the efficiency of a signal timing plan for a corridor for example.  Up to now travel times, speeds and delays were measured by installing equipment at intersections, or by performing ‘floating car runs’.  Maintaining yet another group of devices in the field can be challenging and expensive whereas floating car […]

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DB4IoT with INRIX for transportation emission analysis

By |May 10th, 2021|

The Eastern Research Group (ERG) studied the usefulness of using vehicle telematics data to create vehicle emission inventories. The study has been published by the Coordinated Research Council, Inc (CRC).

ERG surveyed several data sets and analytics platforms and vetted them before embarking on a more detailed study. They selected three sources, these included Moonshadow Mobile’s DB4IoT Platform with INRIX data, StreetLight Data’s Insight platform and Otonomo data.

Data from StreetLight were used to estimate total Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) within their study area. The study area was the 10-county Denver metro area. ERG verified StreetLight algorithm for scaling up telematics […]

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How Connected Vehicle Data is Changing Transportation Analytics

By |January 28th, 2021|

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Our CEO, Eimar Boesjes, was invited by Prof. David Hurwitz at Oregon State University to give a guest lecture in Hurwitz’ Masters of Transportation Engineering program.  This 50 minute video gives an overview of the current state of the art in using connected vehicle data for transportation analytics.  In a quick pace Eimar covers how data is collected, the different types of data as well as the transportation analytics supported by each.  High-frequency connected vehicle data, for instance, can be used for safety analytics but Location Based Services (LBS) data from mobile apps does not have a high […]

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Moonshadow and DB4IoT at the ITS Washington Annual Conference

By |December 3rd, 2019|

Moonshadow’s Anita Van Asperdt gave a presentation on December 3, 2019 as part of a panel at the ITS Washington Annual Conference and Exhibition at the University of Washington in Seattle. The panel session was titled “Vehicle Electrification – What’s it got to do with ITS?” and included fellow panelists:

Mike Usen, DKS Associates
Michael Ippoliti, HDR
Edward Smalley, Seattle City Light

Van Asperdt’s presentation focused on “EV-Charging Infrastructure, Siting and Place Design.” […]

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Arcadis Code Orange

By |October 24th, 2019|

Arcadis, a global design, engineering and consulting company, kicked off the first Code Orange, a data analytics hackathon, in North America last week! Focused on hacking mobility in Los Angeles, Arcadis brought together data scientists, mobility experts and partners including Moonshadow to create and present data-driven prototype solutions in four intensely collaborative days, October 18-21.

Wander Boesjes (East Coast Sales Engineer) represented Moonshadow at the event and worked closely with several of the Code Orange teams as they leveraged the power of Moonshadow’s DB4IoT with INRIX Trips analytics platform during the hackathon process.

The teams tackled a variety of different scenarios and […]

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Moonshadow Launches DB4IoT Transportation Data for GHG Reporting

By |June 11th, 2019|

DB4IoT Transportation Data for GHG Reporting from Moonshadow provides detailed insight into the travel activity patterns in cities, metro areas and counties and can be used by consultants and local governments to gain a deeper understanding of when and where transportation is generating the most emissions.

DB4IoT Transportation Data for GHG Reporting delivers maps and spreadsheets that can be included in Community GHG Inventory Reports, Climate Action Plans and Transportation Plans that consultants prepare for cities, counties, MPOs and DOTs or can be used by local governments themselves to support new policies and plans. Moonshadow uses connected-vehicle data from millions of […]

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