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Feeling inspired? So are the QROWD project partners in their recent hackathon! Last October TomTom, one of the QROWD project partners, organised their biggest ever hackathon. “What the Hack” took place for the fourth year running in Berlin, and featured more than 500 participants. During the event, 39 competing challenges were designed to solve realRead more

Last month QROWD was delighted to be able to showcase our project at the Southampton Science and Engineering festival. Hosted at the University of Southampton, the event aims to engage with members of the public about a range of new projects, developments and innovation. With over 7,000 visitors exploring and experiencing the event, QROWD wereRead more

Clicking on the links below you can find recent publications supported by work done in the QROWD project, updated to March 2019.Read more

QROWD has released new deliverables, which can be consulted on Downloads page http://qrowd-project.eu/downloads/ These are: 4 – i-Log http://qrowd-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/D2.4-iLog-1.pdf The mobile application and its deployment basis The i-Log is a mobile application that has been developed by the university of Trento to obtain information about citizens’ modal split by collecting their mobile data and askingRead more

Giacomo Fioroni, Head of the Smart City Office of our QROWD partner, The Municipality of Trento, will deliver a talk at the Expo World Congress in Barcelona within the Solution talks: Digitalization of transport & amp, ITS. Giacomo’s talk will focus on the innovation brought about by the QROWD project in the computation of theRead more

TrentoSmartCityLabs are a set of events dedicated to the dissemination of the smart services & mobile applications available for the citizens of Trento. The format is quite informal: members from the municipality literally go out around the city, both in the main streets and corners, and they talk to people and hand out informative flyers,Read more

Included following the scientific publications that acknowledge the QROWD project to September 2018, together with the links that allow access to them.Read more

The QROWD Ethical Advisory Board, managed by the Project Manager, has been established in order to oversee the ethical concerns around its two smart transportation pilots and therefore, the board members were selected by TomTom, Germany and the Comune di Trento, Italy. The board members were selected in order to ensure that QROWD’s data collectionRead more

The QROWD project offers local government and transportation businesses innovative solutions to improve mobility, reduce traffic congestion and make navigation safer and more efficient. To achieve this, QROWD integrates different sources of data to maximise the value of “Big Data” in planning and managing urban traffic and mobility. The project works with a range ofRead more

On September 25 & 26th, the QROWD technical team met our partners from Tom Tom and the Municipality of Trento, to work together in refining the building blocks of the QROWD big data integration solutions, aimed at boosting improvement in urban mobility and citizens’ quality of life.Read more