Local-scale Stormwater Inlet Monitoring System Aaron Katz, Jie Li, Zoe Kerrich Overview LoSIMS, a local-scale stormwater infrastructure monitoring system, provides an opportunity to address street flooding with a low-cost, distributed sensor network implemented in stormwater inlets across Philadelphia. Philadelphia has significant problems with stormwater management – and the city chose over a decade ago to […]
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Team Member: Michael Cooley; Junya Chen; Yuchen Zhang The problem: Unsheltered homeless people experience extreme risk for hyperthermia in winter and efforts from the office of Homeless Services to get individuals inside rely solely on word of mouth: Homeless people who live on the street in winter are very vulnerable because low temperatures in the winter […]
Team members: Sagari Datta, Shuchang Dong, & John Michael LaSalle. The Problem : Risk hiding behind the splendid river bank Combined Sewer Overflows (CSO) occur when rain overwhelms combined sewer systems leading to untreated sewage entering rivers. This can make the water unsafe for human contact and harms aquatic organism health. The Schuylkill River in […]
Team members: Kefan Long, Yayin Cai, Ran Xin What is the problem? Vision zero is gaining momentum across the world. First developed by the Sweden Transport Administration in 1995, Vision zero has quickly proven to be a successful strategy in saving lives across Europe and is now adopted by many large American cities. By January […]
Team members: Kristen Nicole Scudder, Li Zhuang, and Yuyang Yin The Problem: Underserved Vulnerable Pedestrians at the Intersection Many intersections today are built for the average pedestrian but are not as accommodating for those with limited mobility that need more time or assistance to cross a busy street intersection safely. Examples of these populations may […]
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Train Platform Optimization: Platy++
Team Members: Neil Narayan, Chin Yee Lee, and Leonardo Harth The Problem: Market-Frankford Line System Capacity SEPTA is currently looking for ways to improve performance on their most heavily used rail line: The Market-Frankford Line. To improve capacity, SEPTA has piloted A/B trains at peak and has started removing seats from trains. One area that […]
Hello World! We were challenged to identify a problem facing cities that might be addressed by using lost-cost sensors and re-imagining the way we interact with our environment. After many iterations, our team (Sutong Jiang, Yishi Liu, and Deon Provost) developed a prototype to increase safety for bikers by logging unsafe areas and rethinking how […]
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Conversational Bin
The Problem: Handling trash overflow on streets is EXPENSIVE!!! Our project responds to one long-standing problem in Philadelphia, that is, handling trash overflow on streets, and keeping the streets clean usually cost a lot of money. Since 2009, the streets department has set up more than 1,000 Bigbelly trash compactors around center city, spending more […]
CONCEPT: IoTrash serves to equip the city with a tool for addressing one of the cities most prevalent urban problems: trash. Trash affects our cities. It can negatively impact public perception of an area, influence residents’ sense of pride and ownership of their neighborhood, and can create public health and safety concerns. Addressing trash is […]
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Lit-Lane: The Smart Bike Lane
Earlier this year, the City of Philadelphia released its Vision Zero Action Plan. This ambitious plan aims to reduce traffic deaths in Philadelphia to zero by 2030, and is the major motivation behind our design. The plan outlines four major goals: We believe that the Lit-Lane design and concept can be a powerful tool in […]