Waze for Cities

The Waze for Cities(W4C) program, formerly known as Connected Citizens Program(CCP) 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 mission of Waze for Cities is to help Wazers, cities, and citizens collaborate to improve their community and answer the question "What's happening on our roads right now, and where?" The program promotes more efficient traffic monitoring by sharing crowdsourced incident reports from Waze drivers. Established as a two-way data share, Waze receives partner input such as feeds from road sensors, adds publicly available incident and road closure reports from the Waze traffic platform and returns 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 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.

The Waze for Cities 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.

Existing Partners

The first ten partners in the program, called the “W10” by Waze, were:

• Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Barcelona, Spain
• Jakarta, Indonesia
• Tel Aviv, Israel
• San Jose, Costa Rica
• Boston, Massachusetts
• Los Angeles County, California
• New York Police Department
• Utah
• Florida

The list of partners is world wide. Here are the current partners for the USA As of October 2016

North America Partners

Alabama – Department of Transportation California – Caltrans California – City of Cupertino City Hall California – City of Los Angeles California – City of Sacramento California – City of San Francisco California – Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority California – Paramedics Plus (Genesis Pulse) California – Town of Los Gatos Canada – Ville de Montreal Colorado – City of Colorado Springs Colorado – Douglas County Connecticut - City of Stamford District of Columbia – D.C. Department of Transportation Florida – City of Miami Beach Florida – City of Tampa Florida – Florida Department of Transportation Florida – Paramedics Plus (Genesis Pulse) Florida – Miami-Dade County Florida – Sunstar EMS (Genesis Pulse) Georgia – Bartow County Georgia – City of Atlanta Georgia – City of Johns Creek Georgia – City of West Jackson Georgia – Georgia Department of Transportation Georgia – Georgia Emergency Management & Homeland Security Agency Illinois – City of Evanston Illinois – City of Naperville Indiana – City of Bloomington Indiana – Paramedics Plus (Genesis Pulse) Indiana – Three Rivers Ambulance Authority (Genesis Pulse) Iowa – Iowa Department of Transportation Kentucky – City of Louisville Kentucky – Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Louisiana – City-Parish of Baton Rouge Louisiana – Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development Maine – Maine Department of Transportation Maryland – University of Maryland Maryland – St. Mary’s Emergency Services and Technology Massachusetts – City of Boston Massachusetts – City of Cambridge (Kleinfelder East) Massachusetts – Capital Strategic Solutions Massachusetts – Massachusetts Department of Transportation Missouri – CoxHealth (Genesis Pulse) Missouri – Mercy EMS (Genesis Pulse) Missouri – Taney County Ambulance Directory (Genesis Pulse) National – SeeClickFix (nonprofit partner) National – United States Department of Transportation Nebraska – Nebraska Department of Roads Nevada - Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTCSVN) New Hampshire – New Hampshire Department of Transportation New Jersey – City of Jersey City New Jersey – Jersey City EMS (Genesis Pulse) New Jersey – Leonia New Jersey - Township of Stafford North Carolina – City of Charlotte North Carolina – City of Greensboro North Carolina – City of Raleigh Ohio – Town of Dublin Oregon – Oregon Department of Transportation Pennsylvania – Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Pennsylvania – Pennsylvania Turnpike Authority Pennsylvania – Wilkes-Barre Township Police Department Rhode Island – City of Providence Rhode Island – Rhode Island Turnpike & Bridge Authority South Dakota – Paramedics Plus (Genesis Pulse) Tennessee – Tennessee Department of Transportation Texas – CareFlite (Genesis Pulse) Texas – Champion EMS (Genesis Pulse) Texas – ETMC EMS (Genesis Pulse) Texas - City of Fort Worth Texas – LifeNet EMS (Genesis Pulse) Utah – Utah Department of Transportation Vermont – Vermont Department of Transportation Virginia – City of Arlington Virginia – Portsmouth Police Department

How to Join

Currently Waze offers data exchange programs with government entities and private road owners and operators. Please fill out the Waze for Cities Application Form to share data with Waze and to apply for participation in Waze's for Cities program.

Who can Join

Local Government Agencies, Municipalities, Cities, States, Departments of Transportation, Departments of Public Works, Utility Companies, 911 Emergency Dispatch Centers and 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)

References

• Word Doc: Connected Citizens Program Summary

• Waze for Cities Homepage: Waze for Cities Program

• Waze CCP Blog post: Waze Connected Citizens Program Blog Post

• Waze Data CCP: Introducing the W10 And The New Connected Citizens Platform

• Video: Waze Connected Citizens Launch Highlights | Waze (1:25)

• Video: Waze W10 10/1/14 Launch Event Panel, hosted by Baratunde Thurston (46:44)

• Video: NYPD Partners with Waze for Road Safety (1:13)

• Video: Waze navigation app teams up with cities, states to share traffic data (4:11)

• Article: Waze Launches Connected Citizens Program, Debuts Inaugural "W10"

• Press Release: Kentucky Transportation Cabinet among first partners with Waze

• Press Release: FDOT, The Waze Connection

• Press Release: The Genesis Group Joins Waze CCP

• Forum: CCP Forum Post

• Forum: Canned CCP Template

• Message format: CIFS: Connected Citizens Partner Feeds Specs v1.0

• Message format: CIFS: Connected Citizens Partner Feeds Specs v2.0
• Waze partner portal: Waze Partner Portal