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6 Risks and Mitigation
City of Norfolk’s approach to assuring capacity and risk mitigations for its project relies on a rich
partner network that incorporates redundancy. The City will continuously identify additional
entities with capacity in critical areas and surface potential risks, and adjust as necessary.
In general, security challenges are magnified when dealing with Big Data due to its velocity,
volume, and variability. Many security issues are identified, such secure computations in
distributed programming frameworks, security best practices for non-relational data stores,
secure data storage and transactions logs, end-point I input validation/filtering, real-time
security/compliance monitoring, scalable privacy-preserving data mining and analytics (“Big
Brother”), cryptographically enforced access control and secure communication, granular access
control, granular audits, data provenance. Much research is being dedicated to these issues.
All of these issues are important for any Big Data collecting and processing activity but it quickly
becomes overwhelming to consider all of them at once. Hence, we will apply a separation of
concern principle by relying on the Cloud Services to handle security once the data are “in the
cloud”. However, the end-point input validation/filtering, scalable privacy-preserving data mining
and analytics (“Big Brother”), cryptographically enforced access control and secure
communication remain of concern and attention.
We propose to work closely with the Cloud services to define access control and data priority for
the possibility of (auto) tiered storage with different security policies. In addition we will seek to
partner with providers of input filtering technologies that will ensure the validity of inputs and
check for untrusted inputs sources in the multi-device environments, such as driver cell phones.
7 Partners, Stakeholders and Governance Processes
The City of Norfolk has strong and long-standing relationships, that we consider partnerships,
with all of the public agencies that will be key players and stakeholders on this project. We also
have well-established relationships with our key university research partner, Old Dominion
University’s Transportation Research Institute, Norfolk Southern, Kimley-Horn, Siemens and
Midnight Status. We are excited to engage Metropia and Qualcomm, rounding out a core team
with an array of international expertise ideally suited for this project. Our Team:
Transportation Institute
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The portfolio of the Mobility Division includes signal and control technology for
rail-based passenger and freight traffic. Siemens RailFusion system will soon be deployed in
Norfolk improving rail/roadway operations. Electrification solutions for rail and road traffic. Road
traffic control and information systems, parking space management as well as electronic
payment and toll systems for urban and interurban traffic. Consulting, planning, financing,
construction and operation of turnkey mobility systems. Integrated mobility solutions for
intermodal networking of different traffic systems.
We are a group of transportation engineers, network modelers and data
scientists, all with solid academic
backgrounds, practical experience, and a
passion for solving urban traffic congestion problems with creative, cutting-edge solutions. We
develop and integrate high-performance and mobile computing technologies to produce apps
and backend analytics capabilities that help both users (commuters) and entire systems (cities)
during normal operations, pre-planned special events, or unexpected, extraordinary
circumstances.
From reducing energy consumption, to cutting operational costs, to enhancing
public safety, we’re using our wireless expertise to transform infrastructure and
address the complex challenges that smart cities are facing. True efficiency is the result of
interoperability that allows data to flow freely across various technologies within city functions
such as lighting, transportation and infrastructure – enabling intelligent communication, while
maintaining security protocols. All of our citywide solutions are designed with the ability to scale
— meaning entire cities can be seamlessly connected no matter their needs today, or tomorrow.
Kimley-Horn (KHA) provides the team with ITS and smart transportation from
planning to design to software integration support activities. KHA’s civil and
electrical engineers understand the built environment coupled with software developers that
can translate that infrastructure/data into an intuitive interface, and mine the databases for
additional ways to enhance the way constituents get around. KHA is also apprised of recent
developments in the Automated and Connected Vehicle arenas, and is developing a research
roadmap on behalf of AASHTO and NCHRP related to planning and implementing Automated and
Connected Vehicle technologies (NCHRP 20-24),an integral part of Smart-Cities initiatives.
Midnight Status is
a Norfolk-based software development company with over
20 years of experience. Its team members have created software for The
National Highway Institute, NATO, and the Marine Corps. Midnight Status has locally
developed and deployed "Tunnel Traffic", providing a simple smartphone interface for Hampton
Roads drivers to quickly see if any of the area’s four tunnels are blocked or congested.
Demonstration Governance
Governance processes involving demonstration projects require the knowledge to establish
proper procedures following the “rules of experimental conduct”, and the ability to strategically