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Chapter Three - Right Place

3.6
Hong Kong can

build a cutting edge

via open data

According to the navigation company TomTom, traffic
congestion has cost each passenger in Hong Kong more
than half an hour a day, totalling 145 hours a year on

average. No wonder the first issue the Hong Kong Smart 197
City Blueprint, released in 2017, addressed was Smart
Mobility. Though the government has initiated a number
of methods, from in-vehicle units to traffic detectors, to

collect real-time traffic data, it is certain that aggregate
location information from mobile networks can provide
comprehensive insights into commuters’ travel patterns
- few organisations possess more data than the mobile

networks as the number of mobile phone subscriptions
in Hong Kong has long outnumbered the size of our total
population by over two to one, based on the latest official
statistics.