TRAFAIR

TRAFAIR has been selected for the presentation in the Mobility Session at the SmartCommunities Conference 2021.
The conference will be held online on April 13th, 2021 (registration link).
The event is organized by the Italian Technology Cluster and will promote the best innovative solutions for resilient and intelligent communities.

The virtual event will be held in Italian, with the exception of the keynote speakers. The Agenda is available here: https://www.smartcommunitiestech.it/scc-2021/agenda/.

What is the traffic trend in the city? And how much does it impact air quality? How have traffic and pollution changed from 2018 to today?

The Trafair project will end in one month. The final event in Modena to present the results of the project will be held online on 29th March 2021 at 5:30 pm.

During the event, traffic and air quality monitoring tools will be presented. The tools are freely accessible to all and help fill the lack of information on air pollution on the urban scale.

TRAFAIR Traffic Flow (trafair.eu/trafficflow/) and TRAFAIR Air Quality (trafair.eu/airquality) are the dashboards that monitor data from the cities of Modena, Zaragoza and Santiago de Compostela.
TRAFAIR forecast and TRAFAIR green areas are the mobile apps available for Android and iOS devices.

The event will be streamed on the Trafair Youtube channel (youtube.com/channel/UCpALzk9sVNAFq1Bl2ZxefFQ) and on the Europa Modena Facebook page (facebook.com/EuropeDirectModena/).
During the event, it will be possible to send questions by commenting directly on Facebook and Twitter.

The paper “SenseBoard: sensor monitoring for air quality experts” has been accepted to be presented in the 4th International Workshop on Big Data Visual Exploration and Analytics (BigVis 2021) of the 24th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2021). The conference will be held online from 23th to 26th March.

The paper describes the web application developed in Modena to help environmental experts in monitoring the air quality sensor network, and controlling calibration and anomaly detection algorithms.

The paper “Automatic publication of Open Data from OGC services: the use case of TRAFAIR project“, funded by TRAFAIR, was presented at The Twelfth International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services (GEOProcessing 2020), Valencia (Spain), 21-25 November 2020.

This work proposes a workflow for the publication of Open Spatial Data, whose main contribution is the automatic generation of metadata extracted from OGC spatial services providing access to feature types and coverages.

This paper has been awarded as one of the best papers of the conference.

Read the paper at this link or have a look at the slides.

Today, the paper “A Comparative Study of State-of-The-Art Linked Data Visualization Tools“, partially funded by TRAFAIR, has been presented by Federico Desimoni in the 5th Internation workshop “Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data”(VOILA2020) co-located with the International Semantic Web Conference. The paper describes the experimental evaluation of a set of generic use cases over a set of Linked Data Visualization Tools. Read the paper at this link.

The TRAFAIR – Understanding Traffic Flows to Improve Air Quality project (https://www.cesga.es/es/investigacion/proyectos/Proyecto?id=736), co-financed by the European Community and in which CESGA, the city of Santiago de Compostela and the USC participate, arose from the need of large cities to check the air quality quickly and efficiently with a system that allows decisions to improve air quality, benefiting citizens, businesses and administrations.

The objectives of this project are to provide estimates of air pollution in the city and to develop a prediction service based on the specific meteorology of the area and the real traffic flows that move through the city, in addition to publishing these data to the public.

These objectives have favored the city of Santiago de Compostela being awarded the II Prize for Clean Air by presenting itself with the TRAFAIR project, in which CESGA is a partner together with the Council and the USC. The role of CESGA in the project as an HPC environment (High Performance Computing) computing air quality simulations and as HPC experts has been fundamental for the progress of the project, and the support provided to both national and international TRAFAIR partners is recognized.

The X Clean Air Platform (https://porunairelimpio.org/) has awarded Santiago de Compostela the prize in the category of cities with less than 100,000 inhabitants.

The main reasons why he has been awarded the prize are:

• The project is a joint initiative between public administrations and universities in Italy and Spain that joins their efforts to understand the impact that traffic flows have on air quality.
• Its scientific rigor, the use of new technologies and the development of innovative and sustainable services to produce new robust, fast and reliable information.
• It contemplates social awareness, it will generate concrete benefits for citizens, companies and administrations through a service that will provide tools (for example, open data publication and web and mobile applications) to know the reality of air, traffic and weather conditions within the city. Validate the results with an innovative and low-cost air quality sensor system.

Due to COVID-19 the awards ceremony was postponed and finally was held on October 1 at 12:00 in Alameda Park. The award is the planting of a tree, which symbolizes the importance of implementing urban nature systems as a good practice to improve the #AirQuality of our cities, and a diploma. The tree selected by the Councilor for the Environment Milagros Castro is the Davinia Involucrata, an ornamental plant popularly used in gardens and native to central and southern China.

The Regional Authority of Tuscany has organized the third local dissemination event of the Trafair project in Pisa next 9th of October 2020 at 2:30 PM.

This event, hosted by the Internet Festival 2020, will also see the attendence of other partners: the University of Modena, the Tuscany Region and the University of Florence.

Online event registration: https://bit.ly/_Trafair.

Below, you can find the programme.

TRAFAIR will be in tour at the Italian National Conference on Atmospheric Particulate Matter (www.pm2020.it), to be held in-person in Lecce on the 14-16 October 2020. This is the largest conference in Italy regarding atmospheric science, gathering several top-ranked Italian scientists working in Europe. The presentation will provide an overview of the project and share the latest results regarding atmospheric modelling and monitoring.

Stay tuned to see our presentation!

Trafair participates in the first International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies to take action now to drive #CleanAirForAll.

One of the objectives of the Trafair project is to help stimulate interest in air quality and provide data on urban pollution to anyone.

Two new mobile applications for the cities of Modena, Zaragoza and Santiago de Compostela are now available for Android devices.

The Trafair Forecast application shows forecast air quality information (concerning the next 48 hours), mainly about the concentration of nitrogen oxides (NOx), for the cities of Zaragoza, Santiago de Compostela and Modena. In addition, the application offers the possibility of consulting real-time information about the concentration of other pollutants, such as CO, NO2, NO and O3. Moreover, the app includes an interactive map which allows the user to check NOx concentration in the desired city area for the next 2 days.

The Trafair Green Areas application shows real-time information of the concentration of different air pollutants (NO2, CO, O3 and NO) in a point of interest in three European cities: Zaragoza, Santiago de Compostela and Modena. This allows the user to know an approximation of the air quality in the desired city area. For an easier consultation of the data, it is possible to store a list of points of interest for the user as favorites, as well as to choose between different scales of colors and values for easier visualization of the data.

Let’s try them and check the air quality in your city!

By the end of this month, the apps will be available also for IoS devices on the App Store.

Other dashboards and mobile apps are available from other partners: have a look at the link https://trafair.eu/dashboards/.

The paper “Visual analytics for spatio-temporal air quality data” has been accepted in the 24th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV2020). The article is a joint work of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and the University of Santiago de Compostela and describes the air quality dashboard for the city of Modena that has been released as an outcome of the Trafair project. The Trafair air quality dashboard (https://trafair.eu/airquality/) is an effective web application to help public administration in decision making. Air quality data are not only visualized at a limited set of locations at different times but in the continuous space-time domain, thanks to interpolated maps that estimate the pollution at un-sampled locations.

The paper will be presented virtually at the conference on the 10th of September.

A news about Trafair has been published on FocusUnimore, the monthly magazine of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Read here the news!

You can find other news articles from the magazine of June 2020 all related to sustainability here.

The cities of Santiago de Compostela and Zaragoza have been awarded the II Prize for a Clean Air (II Premio X Aire Limpio – https://porunairelimpio.org/nosotros/premio.php) organized by the Platform for a Clean Air (https://porunairelimpio.org/).
The prize recognizes municipalities engaged in the air quality of their city and gives visibility to these practices as a stimulus for other cities.
Santiago de Compostela was selected among the cities with less than 100k inhabitants, while Zaragoza was awarded among the cities with more than 100k people.

The panel of the prize, composed of high prestige researchers and air quality related professional associations, highlighted the number of proposals received and also their quality. The panel recognized the scientific rigor of the proposals and the use of new technologies to develop innovative and sustainable services to produce robust and reliable information. They also highlighted the cooperation between public administrations and universities from Spain and Italy.

The award ceremony, which will take place when COVID-19 emergency allows, will consist in the planting of a tree, as a symbol of city renaturation.

Libelium has shared on its website the case study of the TRAFAIR project at Santiago de Compostela.

Read here more information.

We are very sorry to announce that the TEN-T Days that were to take place from 13 to 15 May 2020 in Sibenik are cancelled. The cancellation is due to the COVID19 emergency that is involving all the World in this period. The organisers are committed to working hard to deliver a successful 10th edition of the TEN-T Days when we will have overcome COVID19.

Due to the evolving situation and uncertainty regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the 2020 PortASAP meeting has been cancelled. This decision is based on the last Greek Ministry of Health announcement, to prohibit international gatherings in Greece as of 9 March 2020.

The TRAFAIR project has been selected to be presented at the 2020 TEN-T Days exhibition.

The event will be held on 13-14-15 May in Šibenik, Croatia and will bring together Ministers, Members of the European Parliament, European Coordinators, representatives of the European Commission, the European Investment Bank and other financial institutions, as well as TEN-T, CEF and Horizon2020 stakeholders to discuss the TEN-T revision and the progress on the implementation of the trans-European transport network. It aims at presenting the state of the art of TEN-T, as well as the achievements of the Connecting Europe Facility programme and the latest developments.

UNIMORE will present through a stand the results and perspectives for the future sustainability of the TRAFAIR project.

More information: https://2020.tentdays.eu/

Today, TRAFAIR project was presented at the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Human Systems Integration: Integrating People and Intelligent Systems in Modena. The title of the presentation is “Using Real Sensors Data to Calibrate a Traffic Model for the City of Modena” and it is focused on the traffic model implemented in Modena by using SUMO (Simulation of Urban Mobility). Different comparisons and evaluations of the model have been explained and discussed.

A local event of the TRAFAIR project was celebrated at 23th of January in Santiago de Compostela with the participation of Government, Institutions, smart cities experts, citizens and companies.
The opening session was chaired by the major of the city and included the participation of:

• Mr. Xosé Antonio Sánchez Bugallo, Major of the City Council of Santiago de Compostela,
• Mr. Gumersindo Feijoo Costa, Vice President of Planning and Strategic Projection of USC,
• Ms. Patricia Argerey Vilar, President of CESGA, Director of Galician Innovation Agency (this agency belongs to the regional Ministry of Economy, Employment and Industry) – Xunta de Galicia,
• Ms. María Cruz Ferreira Costa, General Director of Environmental Quality and Climate Change, Department of Environment, Territory and Housing – Xunta de Galicia.

The main motivation and objectives of the project were presented. Four round tables discussed different topics related to TRAFAIR and air quality. The event had a high social impact at local and regional scale, including both press and radio.

First results about air quality sensor calibration in TRAFAIR will be presented at the 2020 PortASAP meeting of March!

PortASAP (@COST_PortASAP) is a European network promoting portable, affordable and simple analytical platforms and aiming to match the need for low-cost analytical techniques with expertise.

Stay tuned for the presentation slides!

Last week, Laura Po and Federica Rollo presented two papers at the 5th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2019).

The title of the first paper presented is “TRAFAIR: Understanding Traffic Flow to Improve Air Quality” which provides an overview of the Trafair project and the situation about the implementation of the project in each city involved.

The title of the other paper is “From Sensors Data to Urban Traffic Flow Analysis” which describes the implementation of an urban traffic flow model in the city of Modena based on real traffic sensor data.

The Regional Authority of Tuscany has organized the first local dissemination event of Trafair project in Pisa (Italy) next 11th of October 2019 at 2 PM. This event, hosted by the Internet Festival 2019 (https://www.internetfestival.it/en/programma), will also see the attendence of its lead partners: University of Modena, Tuscany Region and University of Florence.
The event venue will be the Scuola Normale, Pisa.

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The European Trafair project will be presented in Modena.
To learn more about the project, its objectives and activities, we invite you to the Trafair Workshop, scheduled for Saturday, September 28, 2019 from 9:00 am to 11:00 am in Galleria Europa, during the event Modena Smart Life 2019.

Afterwards, we will continue and expand our reflection about the environment, IoT and smart city, in the round table “New challenges for the smart city“, from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm in Galleria Europa. The complete program of the Festival is available on the site modenasmartlife.it.

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We are very glad to announce that the paper “TRAFAIR: Understanding Traffic Flow to Improve Air Quality” has been accepted for publication at the 2019 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2019)!
The paper will be presented at the ASC2 workshop within the conference and describes the basis of the project, its goals and the current implementation in the 6 European cities.

We are very glad to announce that the paper ‘Implementing an Urban Dynamic Traffic Model’ has been accepted at Web Intelligence Conference (WI 2019 – https://webintelligence2019.com/) in Thessaloniki.
The paper describes the traffic model employed in Modena in the scope of the Trafair project based on SUMO (Simulation for Urban Mobility) simulation software and OSM (Open Street Map) geographic open-source data.

A detailed analysis of traffic simulation conducted in Modena will be presented also at the Web4City workshop (https://web4city.wordpress.com/) held at WI 2019 (https://webintelligence2019.com/) by presenting the paper ‘Traffic Analysis in a Smart City’.

The sensor data collection, the traffic model interface and the interaction with the Trafair DB will be presented at ISC2 2019 (https://ieee-isc2.org/) in Morocco and published in the paper ‘From Sensors Data to Urban Traffic Flow Analysis’ that describes how the traffic model can automatically interact with the Trafair DB exploiting the traffic sensor data collected in the city of Modena and inserting its output data.

We are very glad to announce that the abstract “Impact Assessment of Traffic Emissions Across Urban Areas Combining Microscale Modelling and Gas Sensor Networks: the TRAFAIR Project” has been accepted at EAC 2019 (https://eac2019.se/) in Gothenburg for a poster presentation.

Trafair has been awarded at Forum Pa 2019 in Rome on the 15th May for the “Sustainable PA Award. 100 projects to achieve the goals of the 2030 Agenda“.

See the presentation slides https://www.slideshare.net/polaura/trafair-premio-pa-sostenibile-2019-slide-di-presentazione-141093813 and the video at  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re5fvBJBw14.

The TRAFAIR project will be presented at Motor Valley Fest in Modena next week.

A demo showing the traffic simulation in the city of Modena and the air pollution dispersion that the traffic causes will be shown.

See us at the desk of our DEMO during the session of the 17th of May 2019 from 10:30 a.m. till 12:30 a.m. at the Parking Area Via Montessori Corner Via Canaletto Sud, Modena.

Please subscribe to the event at the following link https://www.eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-event-masa-open-lab-60528557545

We are very glad to announce that the abstract “Forecast of the impact by local emissions at an urban micro scale by the combination of lagrangian modelling and low cost sensing technology: the TRAFAIR project” has been accepted at HARMO19 (https://harmo19.vito.be/) in Bruges for poster presentation.

A new restyled website is online for the TRAFAIR project at www.trafair.eu.

The Kick-Off meeting starts today and continue until tomorrow. Some members of each partner meet to share their idea of the project.
The next two days are dedicated to the presentation of the project, description of the state of the art and exchange of thoughts to start the project in the best way.

The Cef Telecom TRAFAIR project starts today and lasts two years.
The project is co-funded by INEA 75%.
Grant Agreement n. INEA/CEF/ICT/A2017/1566782 of August 7, 2018