John Walsh, Chief Research & Strategy Officer, Clever Devices
Findings have shown that those who use public transportation instead of their automobile reduce their daily carbon emissions and makes significant
contributions to environmental health. This presentation will address improving operational efficiencies to provide increased mobility and reduce environmental consequences; and discuss stakeholder safety and ridership satisfaction which has been recognized by transit agencies as having a significant impact on attractiveness of transit to many current and prospective riders.
Leading cities are using technology to evolve their transport systems from single modes to integrated ones, improve transport services and provide an improved value proposition to customers.
Improvements in information technology related technologies are encouraging and enabling greater use of public transportation and they are enabling new forms of transportation systems that have lower carbon emissions and use less resources. Improvements in information-related technologies such as mobile phones and GPS encourage greater use of public buses, bicycle sharing systems, and trains. These same improvements are making autonomous vehicles economically feasible and roads dedicated to them. Roads dedicated to them can reduce congestion, increase fuel efficiency, and reduce accidents and costs related to them. In combination with public transportation, autonomous vehicles can reduce the need for private vehicles and thus parking spaces. Similar types of improvements in power electronics are reducing the cost and improving the performance of charging stations and thus enable more rapid recharging with a denser number of charging stations. This rapid and more frequent recharging can overcome the existing bottleneck of lower battery storage densities and slow improvements in these storage densities. Overall, improvements in information technology are making possible new forms of sustainable systems that have a much higher chance of becoming economically feasible than more commonly discussed solutions such as hybrid vehicles and wind turbines.
Intelligent transport systems
Smart vehicles and fuels, GIS, GPS, Navigation system, traffic safety management,
mobility services, E-ticketing
AS PER GTU 7TH SEM SYLLABUS MODULE 3
A Higher Plane: Boarding the Next Journey for In-Flight Connectivity - White ...ST Engineering iDirect
When determining the most efficient communications solution, airlines need to consider their long-term plans
for a broad range of applications across their fleet and service territory.
Leading cities are using technology to evolve their transport systems from single modes to integrated ones, improve transport services and provide an improved value proposition to customers.
Improvements in information technology related technologies are encouraging and enabling greater use of public transportation and they are enabling new forms of transportation systems that have lower carbon emissions and use less resources. Improvements in information-related technologies such as mobile phones and GPS encourage greater use of public buses, bicycle sharing systems, and trains. These same improvements are making autonomous vehicles economically feasible and roads dedicated to them. Roads dedicated to them can reduce congestion, increase fuel efficiency, and reduce accidents and costs related to them. In combination with public transportation, autonomous vehicles can reduce the need for private vehicles and thus parking spaces. Similar types of improvements in power electronics are reducing the cost and improving the performance of charging stations and thus enable more rapid recharging with a denser number of charging stations. This rapid and more frequent recharging can overcome the existing bottleneck of lower battery storage densities and slow improvements in these storage densities. Overall, improvements in information technology are making possible new forms of sustainable systems that have a much higher chance of becoming economically feasible than more commonly discussed solutions such as hybrid vehicles and wind turbines.
Intelligent transport systems
Smart vehicles and fuels, GIS, GPS, Navigation system, traffic safety management,
mobility services, E-ticketing
AS PER GTU 7TH SEM SYLLABUS MODULE 3
A Higher Plane: Boarding the Next Journey for In-Flight Connectivity - White ...ST Engineering iDirect
When determining the most efficient communications solution, airlines need to consider their long-term plans
for a broad range of applications across their fleet and service territory.
Smart Transportation for a Smarter Planet: Innovation with Today's ChallengesIBMTransportation
Globalization, urbanization, population growth and technological innovation. Each of these challenges push today's transportation providers to be innovative. IBM can help build a smarter planet with smarter transportation.
Smart Transport for benefit of employees, logistics & freight carriersShubhankar Thakur
Smart Transport –
Completely customisable app
End to end automation – Beneficial for Employee / Admin / curb expenses
Reached Home Button
Women Safety
Routing options for vehicles
Real time vehicle Tracking
Remotely stop the vehicle in case of emergency
Call the cab (call masking - without revealing employee number)
Dashboard showing location of all vehicles
Spot bookings of cabs for sales / marketing / senior people travelling outside city for business
Smart Bus Traveler (Smart Buses for Smart Cities)Ranjit Joshi
In todays fast technological world, one is in always hurry almost for everything. This is the age of Digitalization. A big effective wave of Digital India, Smart Cities all can feel in nearby surrounding. This project i.e. SMART BUS TRAVELER is a next step towards the digitalization of our old public transport system.
To effectuate the consequences of one second, ask the passenger who just missed a bus. GPS supported “SMART BUIS TRAVELER” application for bus tracking is a system which is designed to display current location(s) of the buses. This application not only avails you current location of bus but also the live seat availability in that bus. Great! So by using this application, you can easily decide whether to wait for bus or move on by auto rickshaw.
Smart Transportation for a Smarter Planet: Innovation with Today's ChallengesIBMTransportation
Globalization, urbanization, population growth and technological innovation. Each of these challenges push today's transportation providers to be innovative. IBM can help build a smarter planet with smarter transportation.
Smart Transport for benefit of employees, logistics & freight carriersShubhankar Thakur
Smart Transport –
Completely customisable app
End to end automation – Beneficial for Employee / Admin / curb expenses
Reached Home Button
Women Safety
Routing options for vehicles
Real time vehicle Tracking
Remotely stop the vehicle in case of emergency
Call the cab (call masking - without revealing employee number)
Dashboard showing location of all vehicles
Spot bookings of cabs for sales / marketing / senior people travelling outside city for business
Smart Bus Traveler (Smart Buses for Smart Cities)Ranjit Joshi
In todays fast technological world, one is in always hurry almost for everything. This is the age of Digitalization. A big effective wave of Digital India, Smart Cities all can feel in nearby surrounding. This project i.e. SMART BUS TRAVELER is a next step towards the digitalization of our old public transport system.
To effectuate the consequences of one second, ask the passenger who just missed a bus. GPS supported “SMART BUIS TRAVELER” application for bus tracking is a system which is designed to display current location(s) of the buses. This application not only avails you current location of bus but also the live seat availability in that bus. Great! So by using this application, you can easily decide whether to wait for bus or move on by auto rickshaw.
Tailored Public Transportation: a strong digital upgrade powered by iBeaconsOnyx Beacon
Public transport will no longer be a service provided to an undefined crowd, but will become a customized benefit delivered to each individual traveler. The companies in this sector can take advantage of digital capabilities based on iBeacon technology and deliver tailored services and a customized comfortable experiences for their clients.
We started by placing 500 iBeacons in buses in Bucharest, providing routing, guidance and assistance for 12000 visually impaired users, through a acompletely integrated mobile solution (June-September 2015). Our project has aroused the attention of transportation companies and, based on their suggestions and technical requests, we are now ready to deliver the Extended Version of our Smart Public Transport solution, which will serve all categories of passengers and will offer the chance for transportation companies to address each customer individually.
The solution is using micro-location, contextual communication and presence detection based on iBeacons and will be able to provide 16 new functionalities (accessible out of the box or easily customizable), such as: tailored pricing, individual route (re)calculation, fleet + traffic + comfort optimization, groups + individuals monitoring, safety & security, class validation, cross & up-selling or contextual advertising.
Social Media Content Management: Building a team and working with student con...NAFSA Tech MIG
Presented at the NAFSA Region V 2015 conference by Nathan Barker of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Hannah DeMilta of The Education Abroad Network.
BioSense is an all-hazards surveillance program for achieving near real-time national public health situation awareness and early detection. Prospective anomaly detection methods such as the Modified EARS C2 are commonly adapted and used in BioSense and other public health syndromic surveillance systems. These methods however can produce an excessive false alert rate. Analyses results will be presented on the combined use of retrospective (e.g., Change Point Analysis (or CPA)) and prospective (e.g., C2) anomaly detection methods. This combined approach will help detect sudden aberrations in addition to subtle changes in local trends, help rule out alarm investigations, and assist with retrospective follow-ups. Examples on the utility of this combined approach in working collaboratively with the scientific community are applied to BioSense emergency departments' visits due to ILI. Methods, limitations, future work, and invitation to the scientific community to collaborate with us will be discussed at this talk.
Everyone has heard about the term e-Learning. But what is it exactly? What are the benefits of e-Learning? Is it useful for everyone? We have explained the term e-Learning and its benefits to everyone in the most simplest way.
This is a presentation made by Wassim Derguech at the Waternomics final event on 31/01/2017 for sharing the project contribution for the management of data sources: sensor data, enterprise data and open data
Business is often not prepared to take on sustainability efforts for a variety of reasons. Some of these may be related to a lack of maturity in business process, data management, information gathering or expertise in the subject.
This presentation considers organizational capability in the form of maturity models and frameworks in order to gauge ability to address sustainability. Once an accurate understanding of maturity is documented, it then becomes a matter of planning for and creation of maturity in critical areas that will enable sustainability performance.
The paper that this presentation is based on is available in the Proceedings of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, Health, Safety, Security, Environment and Social Responsibility Conference - North America held in New Orleans, April 18-20, 2017.
Contact us if you'd like to find out more.
Modern transportation is rapidly evolving as smart technologies are
incorporated. This improvement enhances efficiency and security and provides a more sustainable and straightforward experience.
Mr. Paul Chang's presentation at QITCOM 2011QITCOM
QITCOM 2011
Presentation:
City Operations Centre for Managing City
Presenter:
Mr. Paul Chang - Business Development Executive for Emerging Markets, IBM
A Tech-driven Engineering Case on the Current Trends in the Transportation Domain as well as some of the State-of-the-art Principles that can be applied to enhance the Current Transportation System.
Cross Layer based Congestion Free Route Selection in Vehicular Ad Hoc NetworksIJCNCJournal
For creating a mobile network, the moving cars consider as nodes in the Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs). Each participating car is turned into a wireless router in the VANETs that allows the connecting and creating a network. To improve the comfort and safety of driving of automotive users, the vehicular environment system develops in the vehicular environment systems using the wireless access. The channel congestion causes the degradation of quality of service in such cases with higher vehicle density. The real-time and reliable communication is required for various safety applications of VANETs. The dense traffic network has included one of the major challenges as avoiding the communication channels’ degradation. To provide the network with efficient operation, most of the studies are recommended to use the appropriate congestion control methods. It’s important to note that many congestion control mechanisms are not implemented for event-driven real-time safety messages. Based on the congestion probability approach estimation, CFRS-CP-Congestion free route selection is introduced for minimizing the total number of data flow packets that passing through the congested nodes. At each node, the congestion probability is estimated using the proposed technique of CFRS-CP based on link quality, MAC overhead, neighbour density & vehicle velocity. Then, the estimated congestion probability is used for route assessment. The estimated probability value is appended to the control packets for comparison. All the available routes are assessed based on the estimated congestion probability which results in congestion free routing path for every round of data communication. The simulation results prove that the proposed method decreases end to end delay by 32% and improves PDR up to 30% and throughput up to 45% compared to the existing protocols.
CROSS LAYER BASED CONGESTION FREE ROUTE SELECTION IN VEHICULAR AD HOC NETWORKSIJCNCJournal
For creating a mobile network, the moving cars consider as nodes in the Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
(VANETs). Each participating car is turned into a wireless router in the VANETs that allows the
connecting and creating a network. To improve the comfort and safety of driving of automotive users, the
vehicular environment system develops in the vehicular environment systems using the wireless access. The
channel congestion causes the degradation of quality of service in such cases with higher vehicle density.
The real-time and reliable communication is required for various safety applications of VANETs. The
dense traffic network has included one of the major challenges as avoiding the communication channels’
degradation. To provide the network with efficient operation, most of the studies are recommended to use
the appropriate congestion control methods. It’s important to note that many congestion control
mechanisms are not implemented for event-driven real-time safety messages. Based on the congestion
probability approach estimation, CFRS-CP-Congestion free route selection is introduced for minimizing
the total number of data flow packets that passing through the congested nodes. At each node, the
congestion probability is estimated using the proposed technique of CFRS-CP based on link quality, MAC
overhead, neighbour density & vehicle velocity. Then, the estimated congestion probability is used for
route assessment. The estimated probability value is appended to the control packets for comparison. All
the available routes are assessed based on the estimated congestion probability which results in congestion
free routing path for every round of data communication. The simulation results prove that the proposed
method decreases end to end delay by 32% and improves PDR up to 30% and throughput up to 45%
compared to the existing protocols.
Presented by Eric Ziering, Director of Software, Cambridge Systematics, Inc.
Google Transit and the widespread adoption of the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) has had a huge impact on the availability of Transit routing and scheduling services and information,
both from Google and third parties such as HopStop.com. The effect has been to provide
the public with high-quality information services (well beyond what was imaginable a decade
ago) while lowering the cost to transit agencies. In his presentation, Mr. Ziering will tie together a
number of transit-related information systems projects that are now in progress or have recently
been completed by Cambridge Systematics that illustrate this theme of cost-effectiveness through
the innovative use of information technology. Together, these projects showcase the potential to
maximize the effectiveness of existing transit agency resources through innovative use of information systems.
Maintaining and Improving Rural Transit Supply in an Era of Cost-Cutting
Presented by: Matthew W. Daus, Esq., Distinguished Lecturer, City College, University of New York, University
Transportation Research Center, Region II
James Cooper, PhD, Head of the Taxi Studies Group, Edinburgh Napier University
In this session, Mr. Daus and Dr. Cooper will address research completed on the supply of transit services, including paratransit use in mainstream transport provision in rural communities. Evidence will be presented from US and European locations, including the application of a shared
transit scheme using a wide range of optimized supply including Demand Responsive Transportation (DRT) and taxi operations. The presentation will also address how the research has demonstrated that bringing bookings and trips together allows authorities and suppliers to reduce costs, effectively maintaining a service with reduced costs, and/or enhancing services.
Lessons Learned in Transit Efficiencies, Revenue Generation, and Cost Reductions
Presented by: Joel Volinski, Director, National Center for Transit Research, University of South Florida
Over the years, transit systems have responded to budget challenges by becoming more diligent
and creative in developing ways to generate non-traditional revenues and to reduce costs without raising fares or cutting service. Mr. Volinski will discuss a project, first reported on in 1996, whose objective was to collect innovative ideas from transit agencies throughout the country. The ideas collected were then synthesized and redistributed to transit agencies throughout the nation, allowing all agencies to have the potential to replicate successful techniques. Mr. Volinski will also provide a sampling of the 200 successful ideas that have been put in place in dozens of transit agencies across the country.
NFTA Metro Route Restructuring
Presented by: James Morrell, Manager, Service Planning, NFTA
Hal Morse, Executive Director, Greater Buffalo-Niagara Region Transportation Council
The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) implemented a major route restructuring
initiative on October 31, 2010; a plan which required extensive organizational planning and community participation. The restructuring included adjusting service levels to make the entire system more efficient and increase passenger revenues. Buses now run more frequently over the heaviest used routes, and less frequently over lesser-used portions. This presentation will outline the steps needed to restructure service to be more efficient and cost effective.
Bus Customer Information Systems: MTA ’s BusTime Pilot Program
Presented by Sunil Nair, Senior Director, Bus Customer Information Systems, MTA
MTA BusTime represents a big step forward in how the MTA delivers technology to its customers.
Join MTA’s Sunil Nair for a discussion on the MTA’s new pilot project, currently in operation on the B63 route in Brooklyn. The program uses Global Positioning System (GPS) hardware and wireless
communications technology to track the real-time location of buses. Sunil will explain how the MTA developed the system, which allows riders to find the real-time location of buses that will arriveat their stop, and is accessible via a desktop web map, a mobile web site on iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, or other smartphones, and via SMS on all mobile phones.
The world has been watching China’s economic growth and Shanghai is at the center of it all. With over 20 million in population, the Shanghai Bus Company is the largest in the world with over 1100 routes and the Shanghai Metro, that just opened its first line in 1995, will be the largest system in the world by 2012 with 20 lines and 345 stations. Shanghai has embraced new pathways to success in transporting the overwhelming population by staying on the cutting edge of technology and services. This efficiently
planned transportation system has strengthened the economic, social, and environmental sustainability of Shanghai. In this session you will learn the best practices that keep Shanghai residents moving.
This public system utilizes cost sharing across many fronts; including NE MT/
public coordination; incorporation of existing ARC routes to expand public
system; cooperative cost sharing with ARC, city and county for bus shelter;
and by incorporating private sector needs into public system through
underwriting agreements.
Mary Ann Crotty, Macro Associates.
Mary Ann Crotty is President of Macro Associates and former Director of Policy Management for Governor Mario Cuomo. Ms. Crotty will discuss her recommendations for regulatory reform, reducing costs and procurement reform in the construction industry.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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Good morning everyone, and thanks for that great introduction. Like the man said, I’m John Walsh and my title is the Chief Research and Strategy Officer for Clever Devices, a transit technology company. A word about the transportation industry as a whole: it has been a consistent growth industry – since 1958 with few exceptions – despite economic conditions. The important thing to note here is that the paradigm of transportation has changed dramatically from the second world war to now, as well as the impact of sustainability. As you can see from this graph, 1964 was a high use year for public transit, but it began a precipitous decline soon thereafter, as you can see from the dip in ridership by 1968. Herein were concerns about the FTA’s loss of productivity times as well as a host of other issues. Other notable dates are 1990, the year that both the ADA and the (amended) Clean Air Act passed. In 1995 electronic fare collection was implemented, making ridership easier and more streamlined, saving commuter boarding times and vehicle idling times, (good for the environment). You can see the smaller dip in 2004 when fuel prices skyrocketed, worth noting because it increased production and operation costs across the board for public transit.
First I would like to define sustainability. As The Oxford English dictionary defines it, sustainable is involving the use of natural products and energy in a way that does not harm the environment. What is Sustainability? Oxford defines sustainable as involving the use of natural products and energy in a way that does not harm the environment. • adjective 1 able to be sustained. 2 (of industry, development, or agriculture) avoiding depletion of natural resources. — DERIVATIVES sustainability noun sustainably adverb. As the Task Force for the President's Council on Sustainable Development (1997) described it, sustainable communities are those that "flourish because they build a mutually supportive, dynamic balance between social well-being, economic opportunity, and environmental quality.“
If we start at the beginning, and we build intelligent transit systems, we need to begin at the beginning. Transit production. Building intuitive vehicles that include centralized communication technology, with automatic vehicle monitoring for example, will reduce production and operating costs because the automatic vehicle monitoring system will flag issues in the operating system before they become expensive repairs. An AVM system can also increase the lifecycle of the vehicle. Other technologies such as bus arrival prediction, streamlines scheduling and creates happier more satisfied riders. But we will explore these technologies in more detail later in the presentation.
It not only means smart, safe, economic, and efficient mass transit systems, it means that these solutions are built to last. We need to create smarter, more intuitive methods of transportation infrastructures and we need to implement technology to do this. Creating sustainability with technology creates a strong ripple effect. If SUSTAINABILITY is the goal, TECHNOLOGY is the enabler. Some state-level initiatives in Maryland, Georgia, and New York set out to accomplish many things at once. For example, Maryland hopes to save its remaining open spaces and make its urban areas more livable by making existing surface transportation infrastructure more efficient. Georgia recently established an administrative body to coordinate municipal transportation planning in areas that fail to meet the standards of the Clean Air Act. In 2002, New York became one of the first states in the union to formulate a greenhouse gas reduction policy in its 2002 "Energy Plan." The plan sets itself the goals of a 10 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by the year 2020, a 50 percent increase in the use of renewable energy in the state by 2020, and the reduction by 25 percent of primary energy use per unit of gross state product by 2010. While many of these and other initiatives intended to reform the urban environment of the United States are not also meant to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, it’s important to note that any measure that reduces vehicle miles traveled will simultaneously reduce the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. Creating sustainable environments is a great “larger picture” policy. However, creating sustainable vehicles is just as crucial for our success. The only way to create truly sustainable vehicles is by employing new technologies.
What is a Smart Bus? Faster, more reliable service Improved customer convenience and safety Attract choice riders and increase modal split It means that we move forward with new technologies to streamline the way transportation system runs so that we can keep moving forward. It means we work hard to reduce energy consumption and clean up the air.
What are the components of a SMART BUS? CAD, APC, AVL, MDT, Cameras, Message signs, Customer information, TSP, Maintenance Data, IVR,. Indoor Vehicle Tracking, Supervisory Vehicle Technology
With these technical enhancements, riders/customers are happier, yards and TA will be able to track Fewer stops than other transit routes Traffic control strategies will allow Quickline buses to travel faster than other traffic Unique branding
SAFETY FACT Intercity and transit buses have the lowest fatality rates of .04 and .02 respectively out of all modes of transport. Security notes: safety and security research and technical assistance, as well as clean bus propulsion systems using hydrogen fuel cells and hybrid electric technologies. ENVIRONMENT FACTS Riding public transportation is a significant way to cut passenger transportation energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Each year transit passengers reduce their own use of fuel by the equivalent of 1.8 billion gallons of gasoline and reduce their own carbon dioxide emissions by 16.2 million metric tons. Combined this with savings from improved traffic flow due to transit's impact on reducing congestion and secondary land use and travel reduction impacts, transit reduces annual fuel use by the equivalent of 4.2 billion gallons of gasoline and carbon dioxide emissions by 37 million metric tons. The development and testing of bus technologies support the outcome goals of reducing mobile source emissions and dependence upon imported petroleum. The effort utilizes a comprehensive approach to reducing bus emissions, through development, deployment, and dissemination of information and technology.
Let’s factor in the need to ensure security and safety for every rider and driver. Let’s add in the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a specific percent for proper energy consumption and cleaner air. Lets add in technology that flags mechanical operation issues before they become problems and need costly repairs. That sounds like a bus that actually thinks for itself, its driver, its riders, its mechanic and its Transit Authority – and is a sustainable infrastructure. This now becomes our goal.
Using technology with traffic signal timing will improve schedule adherence, reduce operating costs, and improve running times for buses. TSP and Queue jumping
Accurately predicting and communicating arrival time to riders allows them to best plan their trip and utilize their time. Telling passengers exactly where their bus is and when it will arrive will make your passengers feel empowered and confident in their public transportation system, and will sustainably increase ridership while reducing negative impact on the environment.
These nine cameras are installed on the Chicago Transit Authority buses. It is the concept of multi-tasking that will bring us to where we need to be for truly sustainable infrastructure. We won’t be sustainable without solving our congestion problems, and we cannot solve our congesting problems without bus lane incursion and enforcement. The policing and management of said bus lane incursion programs is crucial to its success. It is this one technology that can bring us a multitude of benefits. Adding cameras for operators will help record and track bus lane incursions, and it has a huge benefit for security issues.
Thirteen installed cameras – including interior front mounted, interior center mounted and outside and back cameras, will create a record of bus activity in and out of the bus.
Enforcement is important for a successful bus lane incursion program. For mobile and static cameras (cameras installed on fixed street items), operators staff retrieve the video tapes from the buses and the static sites. CCTV cameras are under the direct control of an experienced operator. They are linked to video recorders which allow the operator to review the evidence and substantiate the decision of a traffic offense or not. Identifying Offences A computerized offense viewing and decision system is used for detecting offences and processing the recordings and the subsequent tickets. It can check whether incident vehicles are exempt under the bus lane order or whether permitted operations are being carried out; carry out a a check with the vehicle licensing authority to check that the observed vehicle details match the DVLA records.
As you can see from this chart, the first year of implementation in this pilot program generated 25,000 in revenue from tickets issued for traffic incursion infractions. The decline in revenue is indicative of the enforcement of bus lane incursion, and as of October of 2009, incursions were almost non existent.
This technology satisfies increased ridership demands through greater operational efficiencies, resulting in lower capital costs and operating expenses. It is also an efficient and effective expenditure of transit funds with a high ROI. This increased efficiency improves the quality of mass transit, maintains existing transportation assets, improves air quality, and reduces traffic congestion and energy consumption.
With technology to enhance operational efficiencies across the agency value chain, improve ridership experience and customer service response, and optimize the reliability of transportation and environmental responsibilities, the ripple effect of intuitive technology has a host of other benefits across the entire enterprise.
Intuitive dashboard analytics with graphical views and reports Metrics drill down capability This is scalable technology so it provides seamless integration with existing technologies (AVM, APC, CleverCAD and BusTime) as well as scalable data storage and collection. The data delivery can be automated for specific time frames or schedules and provides delegated administration for secure access to critical data.
Customizable business rules This is simple, usable, and configurable for all levels of depot metrics and can be organized for transit agencies’ specific business rules and procedures.
This reporting feature can generate the most efficient operators.
This reporting feature can generate the least efficient operators.
Ubisense Transit Yard Manager (TYM) helps transit organizations dramatically reduce the costly and repetitive effort of locating, assigning, and holding transit vehicles at the start and end of each block or scheduled maintenance. With Ubisense TYM, it is no longer necessary to manually locate vehicles within and around a transit facility. This information, instead, is automatically maintained electronically, making not only location but also critical vehicle information and maintenance data accessible to anyone in the organization, at any time, through an intuitive graphical interface. More timely and accurate location also reduces the time needed to perform maintenance, reduces shuffle times, and can help reduce the number of late pullouts, improving on time performance. Knowing where vehicles are parked in real-time also speeds up customer service (e.g., lost article requests) and facilitates more rapid response to law enforcement enquiries.
OTHER BENEFITS When integrated with scheduling/dispatch system, block information can be displayed by vehicle location and changed interactively as needed. Automatic vehicle assignment can be performed with a connected scheduling system in a “batch” mode based on knowledge of exact lane positions and pull-out times. Reduced risk of a held vehicle being assigned. Instant access to current status of vehicle locations for vehicles re-entering, facilitates optimal lane assignment. Available parking areas are visible at all times, aiding in proper staging. When integrated with CAD/AVL system, information about vehicles with reported mechanical problems can be viewed to ensure that vehicle is held and not blocked. Assists Maintenance in scheduling Mechanics can quickly find buses that they need to work on, before buses needing work are blocked by others. Visibility to the garage or yard ensures the correct placement of vehicles in need of service and reduces vehicle shuffle times. When integrated with maintenance and automatic vehicle monitoring systems, information about vehicles with reported mechanical problems can be viewed to ensure that vehicle is held and not blocked. Additional Benefits Proper staging helps to reduce late pull-outs. Knowing exactly when vehicle departs and arrives provides metrics for performance and can be utilized to ensure operator time is being reported correctly. Instant access to location can aid in locating lost articles or retrieving security video footage
On May 18, 2009, the Department of Transportation published an interim notice announcing the availability of funding for TIGER Discretionary Grants (as defined below), project selection criteria, application requirements and the deadline for submitting applications. Because this is a new program, the interim notice also requested comments on the proposed selection criteria and guidance for awarding TIGER Discretionary Grants. The Department considered the comments that were submitted in accordance with the interim notice and has decided to publish this notice revising some elements of the interim notice. Each of the substantive revisions made in this notice are described below in ‘‘Supplemental Information.’’ In the event that this solicitation does not result in the award and obligation of all available funds, the Department may decide to publish an additional solicitation. DATES: Complete applications for TIGER Discretionary Grants must be submitted by September 15, 2009 (the ‘‘Application Deadline’’). While applicants are encouraged to submit applications in advance of the Application Deadline, applications will not be evaluated, and awards will not be made, until after the Application Deadline. Due to the need to expedite the grant award process to meet the requirements and purposes of the Recovery Act (as defined below), the Department will evaluate all applications and announce the project lines via e-mail at TIGERGrants@dot.gov. Applicants should receive a confirmation e-mail, but are advised to request a return receipt to confirm transmission. Only applications received via email as provided above shall be deemed properly filed.
In conclusion sustainability is no longer a tagline it has to be the fundamental business of the transportation industry.