Around the world, governments are turning to technology to create smarter and more efficient transportation networks, and data is critical to their efforts. City planning requires access to data such as pedestrian footfall, road traffic and weather conditions, even though collecting and analysing such massive amounts of information is a formidable task.
Yogi Rampuria, Principal Solution Engineer at Yugabyte, says governments can best manage the data they need to create smarter transportation if they embrace the use of data, in particular real-time data.