RFID

Reinventing the bus stop

May 19, 2010

In Fast Company, Tadeo Toulis, creative director of Seattle-based Teague, writes about a concept his firm calls Traffic 2.0, which reinvents the bus stop to answer three basic questions about the trip: Where, how, and when.

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Bangalore buses turn into high-tech nannies

May 17, 2010

School buses in Bangalore will soon sent text alerts to parents every time their child gets on or off the bus.

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A glimpse of the wireless future

February 21, 2010

Autopia envisions the future, and it’s based on intelligent transportation systems. While most of the story focuses on automobiles, the use of RFID technology in transit gets a nod.

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Smart cards reveal London commuting patterns

February 3, 2010

Researchers at the Institut des Systemes Complexes in Paris (France) have examined trip data for 11.2 million transit trips in London (UK) during a week in 2008.

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RFID tags can improve track worker safety

January 22, 2010

Researchers at McMaster University’s RFID Applications Lab (ON) are collaborating with Bombardier Transportation and Ontario Centres of Excellence to develop develop location awareness technology that notifies subway vehicles of the exact location of trackside workers.

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Beijing upgrades traffic signals

December 9, 2009

Beijing has added signal priority for buses on selected roads using RFID technology.

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Barcodes: The next generation

July 30, 2009

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new type of barcode. The so-called Bokode is tiny, just three centimeters across, but contains thousands of bits of information.

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Canadian system fights counterfeit passes

July 28, 2009

The University of Guelph (ON) is working with Guelph Transit to introduce RFID-enabled transit passes for students. The move comes after more than 60 counterfeit passes were confiscated in the last year.

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Reusable contactless single-trip tickets debut in South Korea

July 9, 2009

Seoul, South Korea, is introducing reusable single-trip contactless tickets, which are expected to save the city $2.4 million a year.

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Manila to launch automated bus service

July 1, 2009

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, in the Philippines, is testing its organized bus route program in four terminals later this month. The terminals will be equipped with RFID readers to track buses as they pass through.

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