This document discusses a public transit architecture (PTA) that focuses on services rather than devices. It describes several proposed services including an on-board travel advisor, mobile advisor, digital wallet, smart bus stops, distributed driver services, in-transit control, location awareness, next stop visibility, and others. The goal is to enhance the citizen experience through more distributed services and community engagement.

2. J.D. Stanley III
Public Sector CTO
Internet Business Solutions Group
Cisco

3. PTA is about the service, NOT about devices
On Board Travel Advisor
Real time schedules, traffic, load, and
route options
Mobile Advisor
Personal travel assistance and advice
on the options available
Digital Wallet
Personal transactions and interactions
with the public transit system,
Bus Stops/Train Stations
Real time monitoring schedules and
including reward programs.
other services for the citizen

4. More Distributed Services
On Board Travel Advisor
Real time schedules, traffic, load, and
route options. Includes carbon metrics Personal Advisor
for bus and related contribution from Personal travel assistance and advice
passengers on the options available.
eWallet
Personal transactions and interactions Smart Bus Stops
with the public transit system, Real time monitoring schedules and
including reward programs. Based on other services for the citizen
sensors like RFID, etc

5. Distributed Driver Services
Carbon Advisor
Real time advisor for helping drive
determine best methods for reducing
carbon emissions. Includes linkages to
In Transit Control driver reward program
Real time schedules, traffic, load, safety,
and route options. Traffic light control.
Vehicle Health
Real time monitoring of bus systems to
Location Awareness ensure safely operating bus
Real time monitoring the environment
around the bus for traffic, collision
avoidance, safety, and patterns
Next Stop Visibility
Real time monitoring into the next stop
situation to ensure experience, safety,
and availability assurance

6. All about Citizen Engagement & Community

7. Extended Services

8. Extending More Services

9. Emerging Diffusion Architectures
We’ve inherited application centric
information, communication, and technology
enterprise/mission environments where logic
is duplicated throughout 30+ years of
applications – witnessed through proliferation
of silos, fusion complications, and lack of
human subjectivity/context
Emergent Social Networking platforms are
provisioning services that empower diffused
logic environments – allowing dynamic
unpacking of existing services and rapid
reassembly – accelerating decision space
fusion, and more importantly individual
experiences into collective experiences

10. PTA Web 2.0 Architecture
End-User Clients
PTA Applications
City Apps Partner Apps Customer Apps
API
Video File Call Policy Policy Presence Routing
Mgmt Control Mgmt Mgmt & Location & Queuing
Directory & Voice Presence IM & Custom Data
Identity & Location Chat Data Sharing
City On Premise On-Demand
Media Tone
Global Delivery Network

11. Key Points:
Open Standards-based Emergent Capabilities in Digital • Integrates Legacy
Fabrics to Enhance Service Provisioning – Illustrative example • Converges V/V/D
of the potential services discussed within Digital Swarming framework • Reduces Complexity
• Enhances SOA & Clouds
• Provisions meaning/context
Applications Distributed Services
Common and
Commercial Consistent Services
Applications
Collaboration
Internally Collaboration
Trusted Social Developed Social Networking
Real Time Workspaces
Networking Decision Support Communications
Software as a
Service Follow Me Content
(SaaS)
Rules-based
Composite End-to-End Flows Modulation Physical/Virtual
Mobility
Apps/SOA Convergence
Distributed and
Borderless Policy Modulation
Operations Social
Network
Widgets Immersive Spaces Application & Content
Delivery
Special Data translation and Node Management
Purpose integration
Risk Management
Embedded
Power of Apps
Collectives Virtualization
Security
Source: Cisco IBSG Digital Swarming derivative on Fabrics Risk Management Transport Source: Cisco IBSG