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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Susan Bregman is editor of The Transit Wire. She has been a consultant on transit policy and planning for fifteen years and before that worked for the Boston Transportation Department. In 2004 she founded Oak Square Resources, LLC, which focuses on transit research, policy, and social media.