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Miovision - rangersfan - 02-10-2015 Canadian technology start-up Miovision raises C$30 million February 10, 2015 | John Tilak | Reuters.ca | LINK Quote:TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian technology start-up Miovision, which produces software that converts video of vehicle traffic into data, said on Tuesday it received C$30 million ($23.83 million) in funding to help support its growth plans. RE: Miovision - rangersfan - 02-10-2015 Hunting tech talent Jan 7, 2015 | James Jackson | Waterloo Chronicle | LINK Quote:All is fair when it comes to love, war and business. RE: Miovision - highlander - 08-12-2016 Interesting local connection to the new bike lanes on Bloor St: Quote:Specialized software provided at no cost by a tech company from Kitchener, Ont., called Miovision Technologies, will scan video footage of Bloor and allow a deeper analysis of the bike lanes’ effects on safety, the company says. In addition to traffic counts, the software – used around the world but never before by the City of Toronto – can detect anomalies such as sudden decelerations, allowing city staff to analyze places where close calls between cars and cyclists occur, for example. The cameras were also deployed to take baseline measurements before the lanes went in. New Bloor bike lanes in Toronto must pass ‘rigorous’ tests (Globe and Mail) RE: Miovision - rangersfan - 01-30-2018 Miovision has received $1.5 million from the Ontario Government to help with the company's expansion plans. https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/mobile/kitchener-traffic-tech-firm-gets-1-5m-from-province-1.3780061 RE: Miovision - REnerd - 01-31-2018 (01-30-2018, 06:33 AM)rangersfan Wrote: Miovision has received $1.5 million from the Ontario Government to help with the company's expansion plans. Interestingly the Ontario government is granting money to a company that is then discussing how they are going to leverage that into further private investor funds. Seems to me the government should be investing in companies and receiving a payback if/when they are successful. RE: Miovision - plam - 01-31-2018 (01-31-2018, 01:56 PM)REnerd Wrote:(01-30-2018, 06:33 AM)rangersfan Wrote: Miovision has received $1.5 million from the Ontario Government to help with the company's expansion plans. One could argue that they're hoping to make it back by collecting additional taxes from the company. RE: Miovision - KevinL - 01-31-2018 And from the economic activity generated by that growth, etc. It's a well-established strategy. RE: Miovision - robdrimmie - 12-16-2018 I wasn't sure of the best place to post this, but I noticed this interaction on Twitter the other day that I really liked. A former coworker of mine highlighted a bad intersection and tagged Miovision in the tweet. A little while later, Kurtis McBride responded with some data and some guidance. I'm looking forward to the Region, cities and townships having access to this information and making effective changes to the network. I'm bad at embedding tweets. I tried getting this one in at this point in the post but could not. This is a "improve flow for cars" style thing, so it's not inherently good and I don't know if there are factors involved for other modes of transportation, but Glasgow and Westmount is definitely a point were things snare up. There's also a highlight if you follow the original thread where the City's twitter account responds with one of my more hated aspects of our infrastructure "that's the Region's responsibility", but at least the Region's twitter account also responds in saying they're forwarding it to their traffic engineers. It's an interesting sort of case where it seems like social media is leading to productive outcomes. RE: Miovision - danbrotherston - 12-16-2018 (12-16-2018, 10:44 AM)robdrimmie Wrote: I wasn't sure of the best place to post this, but I noticed this interaction on Twitter the other day that I really liked. A former coworker of mine highlighted a bad intersection and tagged Miovision in the tweet. A little while later, Kurtis McBride responded with some data and some guidance. I'm looking forward to the Region, cities and townships having access to this information and making effective changes to the network. I'm not going to bother getting involved in a twitter discussion at this point, but Westmount and Glasgow is an example of a complete failure of government. Years and years ago when Westmount was rebuilt, engineers felt turn lanes were needed at Glasgow, but that would have taken trees and frontage from the property owners on Westmount, so that didn't happen. Then the intersection, not surprisingly had an excessive number of collisions. Region staff went to work, and came up with some options: 1) Widen the road to put turn lanes in (expensive, and same problems as before). 2) Restrict turns (non-starter for the [wealthy] folks on Glasgow). 3) Just barely enough capacity to turn one lane into turn only and have one through lane. They selected 3, and that was the configuration for a long time. During LRT construction traffic shifts meant that the volume of traffic at Westmount/Union now justified a light, and Regional Staff proceeded under a plan to add that (never mind that this was largely driven by temporary construction). To that end, they found that traffic backups along Westmount reached to Union, which would be a problem if there was a light there, so they needed to relieve the bottleneck at Glasgow. They had the same 3 options. But they chose option 4, revert the intersection to a four lane through street with excessive numbers of collisions. That's the conditions we have today. Because people's lives are worth less than wealthy people's frontages, than forcing wealthy people to drive around the block, or than simply suffering through a little bit of congestion for total 1 hour per week day. This is traffic planning in our region in a single intersection. This understanding is derived from public documents (regional council reports) which I spent time reading when I was curious as to the change. Oh, and just so we're clear on the current situation, now that LRT construction has ended, the light at Union is no longer justified, and Glasgow/Westmount retains it's (dangerous) configuration. Now I haven't seen traffic numbers from that intersection (and I don't think they have 5 years of history yet--that's how long they usually average the results over), but it's the only intersection in the city I've actually witnessed collisions at, and I've seen two there. So, take that anecdote with a grain of salt, but I'm guessing it's still the dangerous poorly designed intersection it's always been. RE: Miovision - panamaniac - 12-16-2018 Why would the four lane through street configuration lead to more collisions? Westmount/Ottawa and Westmount/Victoria both have left turn lanes and both see more collisions than Westmount/Glasgow, although I assume they also see higher traffic volumes. RE: Miovision - ijmorlan - 12-16-2018 (12-16-2018, 11:21 AM)panamaniac Wrote: Why would the four lane through street configuration lead to more collisions? Westmount/Ottawa and Westmount/Victoria both have left turn lanes and both see more collisions than Westmount/Glasgow, although I assume they also see higher traffic volumes. Needed turn lanes are missing. If one person wants to turn left, the entire left lane is blocked. The people behind them then try (understandably) to move into the right lane. Meanwhile, the right lane can also get blocked if somebody turning right needs to wait for a pedestrian. Net result: the actual capacity of dedicated through lanes is zero. As far as I’m concerned the selection of the current configuration constitutes professional malpractice. A more reasonable configuration would be one through lane in each direction, with right- and left-turn lanes. This gives the road a total width of 4 lanes at the intersection and 2 elsewhere. I think most of our 4-lane roads could benefit from this treatment, certainly including Union, Belmont, and Queen’s Blvd. If the 2-lane parts between intersections are done with a median, you get easy intermediate pedestrian crossing for free. This configuration also balance out the capacity more appropriately — instead of unused capacity between major intersections and jammed-up major intersections, you get more fully-used narrow roads combined with intersections that flow smoothly but aren’t of excessive size. In short, I am highly unimpressed with our traffic “engineers”. RE: Miovision - timio - 12-16-2018 My favourite part of that intersection is the dedicated left turn signals that never actually are triggered. RE: Miovision - danbrotherston - 12-17-2018 (12-16-2018, 12:14 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(12-16-2018, 11:21 AM)panamaniac Wrote: Why would the four lane through street configuration lead to more collisions? Westmount/Ottawa and Westmount/Victoria both have left turn lanes and both see more collisions than Westmount/Glasgow, although I assume they also see higher traffic volumes. Yes, a very common collision is the vehicle waiting behind the turning vehicle pulls into the other lane to go around, and gets hit by a vehicle from behind, also common is for the vehicle pulling around to be hit by a left turning vehicle who believed they had a space. The other type of collision is left turn errors, because the vehicle turning feels substantially more pressure to turn when blocking a through lane. I unfortunately agree with you. Many of them have proven themselves unqualified to design a garden. You can add the Weber/Laurel crossing to the list of infra we have which an engineer should lose their ring for. RE: Miovision - taylortbb - 01-28-2020 Huge new funding round for Miovision. From: https://betakit.com/miovision-raises-120-million-cad-round-led-by-telus-ventures/ Quote:Miovision, a smart city-focused startup, has raised $120 million CAD in a funding round led by Telus Ventures. That's one of the bigger funding rounds we've seen locally, putting Miovision up there with Faire, North, ApplyBoard, etc as having a pretty significant vote of confidence from investors. RE: Miovision - KevinL - 01-28-2020 Nice! |