10 June 2012, 05:00:00
Researching smarter transit
10 June 2012,
05:00:00
USA: Under a five-year programme, Cubic
Transportation Systems and the University of California at San Diego are to
launch a ‘collaborative partnership’ to study next-generation transport
technology in cities, with a strong focus on contactless payments and passenger
information systems. Cubic has underwritten the partnership with a $500000 grant
to UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering to fund research by the faculty’s
academics, students and Cubic’s own staff. Designed to explore the application
of ‘emerging technologies’, the programme will study the use of consumer mobile
devices, wireless communications and account-based payment processing systems.
The data generated by these services could then be harnessed to provide more
personalised transport information for individual passengers. ‘Our research will
make better use of existing data and seek innovative ways to apply this
information to improve the utilisation of a city’s transport network’, says
Pradip Mistry, Cubic’s Vice-President of Engineering. Cubic hopes to exploit
UCSD’s long-standing strength in researching wireless networks, location-based
services, data warehousing, and system architecture and analytics
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