The Waze Connected Citizens program brings cities and citizens together to answer the questions “What’s happening, and where?” We exchange publicly available incident and road closure reports, enabling our government partners to respond more immediately to accidents and congestion on their roads. In turn, we aggregate our partners' data on the Waze platform, resulting in one of the most succinct, thorough overviews of current road conditions today.
With the addition of city data, Wazers will be even safer on the roads and more knowledgeable about construction, marathons, floods or anything else that can cause delays. And for our government partners, publicly-available Waze data is a powerful tool to build more efficient cities. Real-time information from drivers is essential; no one knows more about what's happening in a city than the people who live there. In an era with smart phones, smart cars and smart homes, isn't it about time we start building smarter cities?
Details
The Connected Citizens Program is an ongoing partnership between Waze and various international government agencies to share publicly-available data in order to accomplish two goals:
- Improve the quality of the Waze App
- Utilize Waze data to improve city planning, inform infrastructure decisions and increase the efficiency of day-to-day operations
Waze exchanges publicly available incident and road closure reports, enabling our government partners to respond more immediately to accidents and congestion on their roads. In turn, Waze aggregates the partners' data on the Waze App platform, resulting in succinct and thorough overviews of current road conditions.
The first ten partners in the program, called the “W10” by Waze, are Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Barcelona, Spain; Jakarta, Indonesia; Tel Aviv, Israel; San Jose, Costa Rica; Boston, Massachusetts; Los Angeles County, California; as well as the New York Police Department and the states of Utah and Florida.
Existing Partners
Current Connected Citizen Partners, by Region:
Here is list of Partners as of March 2015
North America
- Boston, MA - City of Boston
- Florida - Department of Transportation
- Iowa - Department of Transportation
- Kentucky - Department of Transportation
- Los Angeles, CA - Regional Integration of Intelligent Transportation Systems (RIITS)
- Massachusetts - Department of Transportation
- New York City, NY - New York Police Department
- Oregon, US - Department of Transportation
- Utah, US - Department of Transportation
- Washington, D.C. - D.C. Department of Transportation
Latin America
- Petropolis, Brazil - City of Petropolis
- Puebla, Mexico - City of Puebla
- Rio De Janeiro, Brazil - Rio de Janeiro Center for Traffic Operations (COR)
- San José, Costa Rica - City of San José
- Vitoria, Brazil - City of Vitoria
Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Budapest, Hungary - BKK Center for Budapest Transport
- Barcelona, Spain - City of Barcelona
- Catalonia, Spain - Government of Catalonia
- Latvia - Latvia State Roads
- Tel-Aviv, Israel - City of Tel-Aviv
Asia-Pacific
- Jakarta, Indonesia - City of Jakarta
- Sydney, Australia - City of Sydney
How to Join
Potential partners, please provide your information here: Connected Citizens Program Inquiries
Who can Join
local Government Agencies & Cities or Department of Transportation Local Municipality or City Government, Government Officials, Department of Transportation, 911 Emergency Dispatch Centers or Police Departments
Several qualifications:
- Waze aims to work with partners who have additional sources of data, such as road closures, street cameras or road sensors, not found within the Waze app
- Geographical diversity
- Technical capability
- Eagerness and readiness to innovate
- Waze needs in the market (need more data or want to grow focus markets)
Why to Join
At this time partners only receive publicly available road closure and incident information (accident, congestion) submitted in the app by Waze users. The Waze user alias of each report is not shared. All of the data Waze shares with its partners (or any entity), is in accordance with Waze's user facing policies, including the Waze Privacy Policy data and privacy policies. Waze will never share individual driving history or non-public user information with any partner.
Waze gives partners attribution for partner-supplied data within the Waze application.
References
More details available at: http://www.waze.com/connectedcitizens & INTRODUCING THE W10 AND THE NEW CONNECTED CITIZENS PLATFORM Word Doc: [url=http://goo.gl/Ih78xq]Connected Citizens Program Summary[/url]
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Connected Citizens Launch Highlights | Waze[/url] (1:25)Video: [url=
W10 10/1/14 Launch Event Panel, hosted by Baratunde Thurston[/url] (46:44)Video: [url=http://launch.newsinc.com/share.html?trackingGroup=69017&siteSection=ndn&videoId=27379259]NYPD Partners with Waze for Road Safety[/url] (1:13)
Article: [url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/waze-launches-connected-citizens-program-debuts-inaugural-w10-277867931.html]Waze Launches Connected Citizens Program, Debuts Inaugural "W10"[/url]
Press Release: [url=http://transportation.ky.gov/Pages/PressReleasePage.aspx?&FilterField1=ID&FilterValue1=113]Kentucky Transportation Cabinet among first partners with Waze[/url]
Press Release: [url=http://www.dot.state.fl.us/trafficoperations/Newsletters/2014/2014-Aug.pdf]FDOT, The Waze Connection[/url]
Forum Post: https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=129&t=120169
Canned CCP Template: https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=129&t=120169#p1038875