2) Resolving Social Issues in Cities Popular with Tourists

Abstract

From the perspective of creating use cases to solve transportation-related issues in urban areas by utilizing road traffic environment data, we held a contest (an App Contest to Solve Tourism and Transportation Issues (the "Kyoto Raku Mobi Contest") to solicit applications and ideas to solve social issues related to tourism and transportation faced by Kyoto City, a world-class tourist city with many tourist resources. The contest was conducted with the cooperation of the Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau and businesses involved in transportation, logistics, and tourism, and organized and provided data including data on stations, stops, routes, schedules, and fares of buses, trains, and other public transportation systems; data on services and stores for temporary baggage storage and delivery services in the logistics sector; and information on tourist facilities and locations, past congestion statistical data and future congestion forecast data, and map APIs in the tourism sector. Through the implementation of the contest, we raised awareness of the portal site for road traffic environment data, and through discussions and coordination with the various involved parties, we realized the collection and utilization of data to be posted on the portal site (MD communet^Ⓡ).