Smart Right-of-Way Permitting System for the City of Pittsburgh: coordination, pricing and enforcement

This project proposes a smart permitting system to address those pressing issues related to permitting. First, the permitting system consists of a social-costs-based pricing system to internalize the externalities attributed to a specific right-of-way permit. A network mobility model is adopted to quantify the impact of a permit on specific roads, times of day, and days of week. The research team will further develop a geographic information system (GIS)-based web application to visualize the impacts and query the fee of a right-of-way permit in real-time. Second, the team will develop a data-driven permit supervision system that supervises and enforces the right-of-way permits through multi-source datasets, including traffic speeds, traffic volumes, and social media data. The team will also develop a web application to visualize the information they obtained from the real-time data, alert locations that are likely to violate permits, and recommend routes and locations to inspectors for visual inspection and enforcement. In this project,the team will develop a prototype of the smart permitting system, validate the system together with the DOMI team, and pilot the system in a small area in the city and Cranberry Township.

• Record URL:
  https://ppms.cit.cmu.edu/projects/detail/311

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $100000
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747111

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Carnegie Mellon University

  Mobility21 National USDOT UTC for Mobility of Goods and People
  Pittsburgh, PA  United States  15213

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Center Program
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• Managing Organizations:

  Carnegie Mellon University

  Mobility21 National USDOT UTC for Mobility of Goods and People
  Pittsburgh, PA  United States  15213
• Project Managers:

  Kline, Robin

• Performing Organizations:

  Carnegie Mellon University

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• Principal Investigators:

  Qian, Sean

• Start Date: 20200701
• Expected Completion Date: 20210630
• Actual Completion Date: 20210802
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Coordination; Geographic information systems; Impacts; Mobility; Permits; Pilot studies; Pricing; Prototypes; Right of way (Land); Validation
• Geographic Terms: Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Policy;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01738973
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National University Transportation Center for Improving Mobility (Mobility21)
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747111
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: May 11 2020 10:25AM