Speaker: Mehdi Chouiten, PhD. CEO, DATATEGY Algiers, June 2018

1. AI
at the service of
Transportation and Parking
Mehdi Chouiten, PhD
CEO, DATATEGY
06/28/2018
Algiers Smart City
Global Summit

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Speaker
q Founder of DATATEGY
q PhD in Scientific Computing at CNRS (France)
q Business Strategy at Stanford GSB
q 11 years experience in Scientific Computing
q Projects for more than 30 Smart Cities
q Projects for companies including : Airbus, Engie
Smart Metering, TF1, Parkeon, Nausicaa,
Finexkap…
q Contributor to Think tanks including : Renaissance
Numérique, France Stratégie (Prime Minister Think
Tank)
Mehdi Chouiten

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What is AI
« Field of study that gives computers
the ability to learn without being
explicitly programmed. »
- Arthur Samuel, 1959

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AI Requires Resources : Huge Training sets

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What Enables AI
1 M
USD
In
1967
2 cts in 2017
Storage Price
(1 GB)
x 500,000,000
Computation
capabilities (Cloud)
x 1,000,000,000 Sensors
Heterogeneous
Data sources

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What Enables AI
2 cts in 2017
Storage Price
(1 GB)
x 500,000,000
Computation
capabilities (Cloud)
x 1,000,000,000 Sensors
Heterogeneous
Data sources
Big Data

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AI Ecosystem
Big Data
Smart Cities are one of the
best playgrounds for AI
Users

8. AI & Cities Of
Tomorrow
« Artificial Intelligence Is
The New Electricity »
- Andrew Ng
Google, Baidu, Coursera, Drive.ai…

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E commerce Finance Media Public Services
Energy Retail
Healthcare
High Tech Mobility
Telecom
AI Impacts All Industries

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Some Examples
Self Driving Cars
Number Plate Recognition
Virtual Assistant (voice processing)
Smart Grids

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E commerce Finance Media Public Services
Energy Retail
Healthcare
High Tech Mobility
Telecom
AI Impacts All Industries

12. Transportation

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DATA SOURCES
AI Ecosystem
Big Data
Smart Cities are one of the
best playgrounds for AI
Users

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Data Sources : GIS Data

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Data Sources : Transportation
• Fraud
Datapoints
• Incidents
Datapoints
• Vehicle paid
Occupancy
• Accurate
Itineraries
• Real Vehicle
Occupancy
• Security
Validator
Camera
Agent (& Apps)

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Data is processed through algorithms…

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… To build solutions : For Managers
Screenshot from Urban Engines Solution (Acquired by Google)
Ø Real time monitoring
Ø Better schedule
planning
Ø Better pricing
Ø Real time alerts

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… To build solutions : For Agents on the field
Ø Predictive Maintenance
Ø Target Monitoring
Ø Predictive Fraud
Ø Agents Guidance
Screenshot from OctoCity Solution

19. Parking

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Data Sources : GIS Data

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Data Sources
Parking
Meter
Ø Paid occupancy by time of the day
Ø Parking transactions (durations)
Parking App
City Events
Predictive
Parking

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… To build solutions : Predictive Parking
Predictive Parking
allows planification
of events and user
guidance to places
with best chances to
find a free space.
It also makes dynamic
pricing efficient.
Screenshot from OctoCity Solution

23. Business
Impact

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Business Impact : Fare Evasion
« Fare Evasion represents between 10% to
35% of operators revenue»
- Paris (France): 500 M USD
- Santiago (Chile) : 450 M USD
- London (UK) : 300 M USD Sending agents
to the right
stations at the
right moment

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Business Impact : Parking
Adaption Phase to client context
Maximum Observed
(Jeddah)
6 Months impact
1st Month
Impact
24%
à
83%
112%
1 mois 6 mois
Fare Evasion Reduction
Increases
# of Validations
3%
à
8%
10%
40%
100%

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Infinite list of impacts
Smoother traffic
Better Quality of transportation services
Better Planning of lines timesheet
Simulate event impact on transportation/parking
…

27. Monitoring Business Impact
thanks to Data

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Flexible Statistics
Module
A tool beyond Fare
Evasion fighting
Monitoring
Business Impact
OctoCity Solution by Datategy

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Thank You