MINISTER'S CHALLENGE: TRANSFORM, DON'T DIVIDE
ITS can bring great benefits
– but the industry must be mindful of the potential downsides too. That was the candid message from Khaw Boon Wan, Singapore’s minister for transport, at the Opening Ceremony of ITS World Congress 2019.
“The upsides of ITS are compelling,” he said. “But while technology can transform society, it can also be divisive.”
For example, the growth
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of ride-hailing has brought advantages to many people, but has been disruptive for some; while new cybersecurity vulnerabilities can compromise public safety.
Governments cannot allow a tech divide to flourish, he went on: “We must be mindful that most people are not engineers or techies.”
What matters to the vast majority of the population is that public transport is fast, safe,
reliable “and very importantly, affordable” . It must also contribute to people’s quality of life.
“Technology is but a means to achieve these political objectives – but it must be implemented wisely.”
Given that Singapore is “small and densely populated, we take transport planning very seriously” . This means exploring a wide range of platforms and taking “hard-headed
decisions” . “We do not rush to be ahead of the curve, to be the first to deploy new-fangled technologies,” he added.
He concluded: “There is no one-size-fits-all for transport that transcends place and time.”
For example, what works for Copenhagen, venue of the previous World Congress, will not be what suits Singapore –and that what works today for Singapore itself “might not work in 10 years’ time” .
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SMART CITIES READY TRAFFIC DATA
Kapsch showcasing a new age of urban mobility
Kapsch is bringing a clear message to congress delegates in Singapore: building sustainable urban mobility requires innovative solutions and cooperation.
The company is showcasing the full portfolio of its latest integrated mobility solutions in realistic scenarios. It is also sharing its vision for the future of urban mobility throughout the Asia-Pacific, focused on delivering innovation through smart solutions and agency cooperation.
“Recent trends in urbanisation, congestion and mode shifting present significant challenges,” says Soren Tellegen, Kapsch’s executive VP, APAC (pictured).
“Additional capacity is just not enough to build sustainable urban mobility; smart cities of the future need innovative systems that address multimodal network analysis and evolving needs of end users, as well as enhanced agency collaboration.”
Tellegen says cities have to become smarter about how they move people and goods, and
need to find solutions which offer an acceptable, or improved, user experience while balancing demand across all modes.
According to Kapsch, across the spectrum, the technology exists to enable cities to provide these solutions. Smart devices are now commonplace and put information at citizens’ fingertips; from the individual’s perspective, these solutions appear seamless and simple to use. However, enabling service providers to quantify and satisfy travellers’ ambitions requires sophisticated supporting technology.
“Our strength is the expertise and the maturity of our offerings in terms of highway and urban mobility management capabilities, tolling, V2X, MaaS and a multimodal back office,” says Tellegen.
“We bring our experience and work with cities and governments to solidify thinking and realise approaches, working together to transform today’s challenges into opportunities.”
▶Booths 359 & 97 www.kapsch.net
Zipster MaaS trial for all delegates
A partnership between the ITS World Congress Singapore organisers and start-up company Mobility X sees congress delegates able to try Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) for free using Singapore’s new Zipster app and card.
Zipster’s trip planning app is free to download (via App Store or Google Play) and covers train, metro and bus companies along with privately-owned services such as taxis or car, bike, scooter and even bus-sharing. MobilityX, the company behind Zipster, has also pre-loaded several tactile ‘one-touch’ destinations (including the convention centre and several tourist attractions) while leaving room for delegates to add
destinations such as their hotel.
There is also a pre-loaded (S$8) Zipster card in the delegate pack. While that might not sound much, MobilityX CEO Colin Lim says a journey to the airport from the convention centre on public transport costs less than S$2.
Regular users can set up accounts enabling trips to be paid for using the app’s digital wallet.
MobilityX is now looking to export the app and having experienced MaaS and Zipster for themselves, delegates can get their questions answered at the company’s stand in the SG Pavilion.
▶Booth 335 www.mobility-x.com
Scoot along to Bosch!
The electric scooter – or eScooter –phenomenon sweeping the Asia-Pacific region is being aided by the steady, albeit slow, roll-out of charging stations in cities.
In the face of rapid urbanisation, megacities across Southeast Asia are grappling with some of the worst traffic situations in the world.
To improve their daily commute to work, traffic-weary motorists and public transport riders are exploring novel and creative solutions to avoid the gridlock that has become commonplace in so many cities.
For this reason, motorcycles have long been extremely popular in Southeast Asia – one of the world’s biggest markets for two-wheeled vehicles – and now eScooters are proving to be an even more practical option.
They offer the twin benefits of minimising traffic congestion and reducing carbon emissions.
These two advantages alone demonstrate the value of the eScooter.
But Bosch, one of the world’s leading suppliers of mobility solutions, adds connectivity to make this type of vehicle
even safer, more convenient and more enjoyable than ever before.
Along with the company’s eScooter solution, Bosch is showcasing at this year’s ITS World Congress, its mobility solutions tailored to market needs.
These include next-generation technology across mobility areas that improve vehicle safety, solutions to make electrification possible for all and options for low-cost transport that are fun, flexible and environmentally friendly.
▶Booth 519 www.bosch.co.th
HALL OF FAME: INDUSTRY VETERANS HONOURED
This year’s ITS World Congress has honoured three veteran industry professionals by inducting them into the Hall of Fame. The trio is: Brian Negus (pictured, right), chair of the ITS Australia policy committee; Jim Barbaresso (centre), national ITS and emerging mobility solutions practice leader at HNTB in the US; and Svend Tofting (left), founder of ITS Denmark. The honour is awarded annually to people who personify the highest standards of leadership and who have helped drive the ITS industry forward. During lengthy careers in the industry, each of them has been instrumental in organising the ITS World Congress in their home countries (Australia, the US and Denmark, respectively). Negus is the first Australian to receive the award.
Alina Stepan of Bosch
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HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE WITH SIEMENS PRODUCTS
Siemens Mobility is using an augmented-reality application to give delegates an interesting, handson experience that shows the company’s products across different applications.
As Siemens points out, every city has a multitude of different traffic-relevant systems that work largely independently of each other. Each of these systems gathers valuable data, with potential to contribute to a holistic understanding of the traffic situation.
Efficient traffic measures need to make active use of all available information, from individual counting loops to planning data
on big events, like a major football game, a four-day rock festival, road works or critical weather conditions. These special events often overtax roads, so traffic planners need to be able to offer alternatives to individual car use. Siem ns augmented-reality application offers a novel way to provide a glimpse into these factors and how they can be addressed by the company’s solutions.
For delegates who wish to take a deep dive into its solutions, Siemens Mobility has experts at its booth who will demonstrate how the open interface of Siemens traffic control centres can function as a central data hub to ensure no valuable information is
Barcelona sets C-ITS milestone
Idiada is using its work on a project currently running in Barcelona to highlight its competence in large-scale C-ITS services for the connected city. This project will improve the mobility of numerous types of users in the urban environment.
Barcelona aims to set a milestone in the deployment of C-ITS services in cities, with a project that builds on an international harmonised architecture to ensure that any application or service is interoperable and can be replicated worldwide.
In the case of Barcelona, Idiada has integrated different data providers to deliver aggregated added value on services it’s implementing.
The company is also addressing cybersecurity, one of the biggest challenges within the automotive industry and the ITS community, highlighting a suite of tools and services that help ensure cybersecure ITS deployments.
Idiada claims to be one of the few engineering companies able to support the automotive industry along the whole development cycle of connected and automated vehicles, from functional specifications to final market release.
Here in Singapore, it is showing its current capabilities, including recently opened CAV test tracks and a state-of-the-art dynamic driving simulator.
▶Booth 200
www.idiada.com
overlooked or disregarded. The result is that foreseeable situations can be well prepared for in advance to limit the expected negative impact.
Unforeseen incidents can be responded to quickly and in a coordinated manner.
Powerful tools can regulate the interaction between the control centre and connected traffic systems and synchronise the different measures.
In addition, road users are given information via connected channels such as internet, radio or dynamic message signs.
▶Booth 343 www.siemens.com
Transatel takes the sting out of connected car projects
Transatel is in Singapore to demonstrate how its mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) approach enables car companies to gain full control over connectivity solutions embedded in their vehicles.
Transatel provides companies with a tried and tested approach that helps them avoid operator lock-in situations, multiple and complex integrations, lack of flexibility and agility, and security issues.
It allows auto makers to retain full control of their project through an eSIM-compatible platform, with an international mobile network code and that deals with over 150 local operators worldwide.
According to Transatel, its MVNO-enabling expertise makes “integrate once and deploy globally” a reality.
▶Booth 493
www.transatel.com
Laura Lesnik of Siemens
Swarco’s brand-new mobility platform
Swarco, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, is introducing visitors to Swarco MyCity, its brand-new urban mobility platform. at the ITS World Congress Singapore.
The company, which is part of the Austrian Pavilion will showcase how Swarco MyCity integrates C-ITS ready software and hardware. This platform manages all aspects of traffic in the urban environment, including priority scenarios for emergency vehicles, along with an app with information and speed advice for cyclists.
Also on display is Swarco’s SCATS- and SCOOT-compatible ITC-3 traffic controller, and a novel intelligent traffic light from the company’s Combia generation.
With Swarco‘s new ITC-3, users get a versatile traffic controller that is built for the future and connects to all major traffic management system throughout the world including SCATS, SCOOT, NTCIP, and Omnia.
This controller can manage all existing signal heads and is designed for managing traffic with maximum safety under all possible conditions. The integral easy-to-use interface provides engineers with a fully flexible solution for easy configuration and signal status confirmation.
More generally, Swarco is highlighting its commitment to improve quality of life by making the travel experience safer, quicker, more convenient and environmentally sound.
For this purpose, the Austrian traffic technology corporation produces and provides a wide range of products, systems, services, and turnkey solutions in road marking, urban and interurban traffic control, parking, and public transport.
Cooperative systems, infrastructure-tovehicle communication, electromobility, and integrated software solutions for the liveable city complement the group’s portfolio.
▶Booth 93 www.swarco.com
Chemtronics’ V2X
starting point
Chemtronics is at the ITS Korea Pavilion showing new on-board units for V2X (DSRC/C-V2X) applications, which the company says can compete with those made by global market leaders.
On show are two products intended to serve as the starting point in Chemtronics’ development map in the industry of the future.
The DSRC+LTE Hybrid on-board unit (OBU), operates in frequency bands from 5850-5925 MHz, with transmit power of +23dBm (max) and receiver sensitivity of -97dBm. It supports 2Tx 2RX antenna support and complies with IEEE 802.11p – 2010 and IEEE 1609.2/3/4 – 2016 standards.
Chemtronics’ DSRC+C-V2X Hybrid OBU has more varied receiver sensitivity and conforms to (C-V2X) 3GPP Rel.14, in addition to the two IEEE standards of the other unit. ▶Booth 190 www.chemtronics-automateddriving.co.kr
ITS with AI and edge computing
Kyland is here in Singapore to highlight its Hoursis Smart Transportation 2.0 solution, incorporating AI, machine learning, edge computing and autonomy.
The product enables smart city operators to optimise traffic operations, reduce congestion and offer smart services ready for V2X in the future. And Hoursis is fully compliant with all international traffic standards, including NTCIP, UTMC and GB20999.
Hardware innovations within the system include modular design for flexible expansion and adjustment with multifunctions, as well as unified/
easy management and control
– helping reduce infrastructure investment and maintenance costs.
An IPv6 based two-wire bus structure helps deliver power supply and data communication in a two-wire cable, simplifying wiring installation, further cutting engineering and maintenance costs.
At the heart of Hoursis are innovative algorithms that provide edge cloud computation, networked control, dynamic sectors as computation units, and microseconds-level real-time clock synchronisation.
▶Booth 229 www.kyland.com
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Today’s congress programme is packed full of content across all aspects of ITS and mobility. To help you plan your day and avoid missing any sessions that might be of interest to you, here is a selection of some sessions that will be taking place today
The UK is developing mechanisms to support the implementation of C-ITS technologies on the road network and ensure that best practice is captured and disseminated. Special interest Learning Lessons From C-ITS Early (14:00 - 15:30, Room 330) will share experience of C-ITS rollout and evaluation by looking at the InterCoR programme and the UK Department for Transport’s competition to promote C-ITS in English local authorities. Experience from elsewhere around the globe will also be shared to show what other ‘best practice’ initiatives are taking place in disseminating C-ITS learning.
is significantly different from elsewhere in the world, as trucks, buses, scooters, bicycles, and pedestrians all navigate on the road simultaneously in densely-populated cities from Bangkok to Taipei. Such mixed traffic flow is a challenge for autonomous vehicle (AV) developers. What works in the West may not adapt to Asia-Pacific region. AVs have to learn different skills - or perhaps learn differentlyto respond to the dynamic driving situations and live peacefully with local drivers. In special interest session Autonomous Vehicle Challenges And Opportunities In Asia-Pacific (14:00 - 15:30, Room 327), AV researchers, engineers, and operators will share their stories of localised technologies and market expectation, from sensor fusion to deep learning, and from vehicle manufacturing to test ride.
Freight and logistics are witnessing rapid technological changes due to connectivity and automation. At the same time, new business models are emerging which purportedly have the potential to revolutionise the freight transport sector. It is increasingly argued that automation has the capability to cut operation costs. However, it still remains unexplored whether this will be the case. In addition, most of the cost savings are believed to be derived from a reduction in the labour required. This raises several questions on whether the role of the driver, and his/her respective skillset, will remain essential and relevant in the years to come. Special interest session New Business Models Deriving From Higher Automation Levels In Freight And Logistics (14:00 - 15:30, Room 328) will shed light on the increasingly important questions on the interaction of automation and freight transport, and take a deep dive in order to assess if and how emerging business models can materialise and thrive in the sector.
"Freight and logistics are witnessing rapid technological changes due to connectivity and automation"
In the 4th Mobility as a Service Summit held during the 2018 ITS World Congress, there were numerous discussions about how mobility in cities could be improved by using specific locations for different purposes during various times of day. For example, a specific curb could be used during rush hour as a pickup or drop-off point for ride-sourcing vehicles, and as a recreational space during the rest of the day.
Special interest session Using ITS To Facilitate Dynamic Curb/City Space
Allocation And Pricing/Charging (16:0017:30, Room 329) will explore the use of ITS to facilitate dynamic space allocation and pricing/charging.
Executive session Autonomous Vehicles In Public Transportation – Separating Hype From Reality (16:00 – 17:30, Nicoll 3) brings together industry/public experts to discuss when and how autonomous vehicles will be introduced into public transportation systems and what efforts must be made to ensure that customer expectations and current transportation planning activities are aligned with the enabling of autonomous vehicle capabilities.
Special interest session Enabling Automated And Integrated Urban Public Transport Service (16:00 - 17:30, Room 330) addresses the organisational, functional and technical challenges to enable and implement automated and integrated public transport services. It will focus on the integration of new kinds of vehicles and services on the roads. Traditional traffic controls ask for radical rethinking to balance the new automated on-demand transport modes within urban road traffic flows, without requesting major modifications of existing infrastructure. The session discusses these aspects against the background of international cases with a focus on technological and functional aspects. Cross-sector discussions will be initiated by presentations by international professionals from agencies, industry and academia. Part of the research, touched in this session, is supported by the National Research Foundation of Singapore, under its Create programme.
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EDI excites with latest iCITE evolution
Eberle Design Incorporated (EDI) is here in Singapore to feature the latest evolution of its Intelligent Cabinet Interface to Traffic Equipment (iCITE) suite of products in the ITS America Pavilion.
The iCITE Data Aggregator features a data- and communications-rich hardware platform that can transform any legacy traffic cabinet into a continuous traffic count intersection monitoring station.
According to EDI, it easily interfaces to traffic controllers, communications-enabled detectors and intersection safety monitors.
And by adding remote intersection data to a traffic data set, coupled with providing turning movement counts and split timing
data, the data aggregator brings immediate access to non-interconnected intersections via 3G/4G/LTE/GSM/GPRS cellular communications.
By installing the iCITE Data Aggregator, every intersection is turned into a permanent traffic count station with arrivals on red, the Purdue Coordination Diagram, split failure, queue length, split monitoring, and signal phase and timing data.
Any traffic management agency can then measure, analyse, manage and take action to make their intersections and traffic flows more efficient. With the addition of traffic travel time, speed data, and average daily and annual traffic counts, traffic planners
Aisin on the cake for three-wheeler scooter
Throughout the ITS World Congress this week, Aisin is demonstrating its ILY-Ai, a prototype powered three-wheeled personal mobility scooter.
The ILY-Ai was announced in 2015 as a “Go out for adventure, open up the World and connect” concept for people of all ages.
The latest version incorporates image recognition to sense the movements of pedestrians for increased safety on sidewalks.
According to Aisin, ILY-Ai has the potential to diversify a market where powered, automated and more compact mobility vehicles are becoming primary modes of transport.
The three-wheel prototype is part of Aisin Group’s new connected car services, built on
its Location Based Service Platform for car navigation and brake system technologies. Services include risk prediction of changing environments and proactive informing via HUD (heads up display), as well as mapping of road conditions based on vehicle and location information.
Aisin can also provide logistics support – currently under pilot testing – to calculate optimal routes, detect delays and enable inter-company information sharing.
It also offers a sponsored demandresponsive ride-sharing service that contributes to health promotion for the elderly by offering transport and opportunities to get out of their residences.
▶Booth 143 www.aisin.com
gain insight into how best to adjust and time infrastructure assets, allowing improved levels of traffic throughput.
“Eberle Design’s commitment to innovation, quality of product, service and training to industry professionals has never wavered,” says John Shearer, VP - Business Development.
“The iCITE Data Aggregator is critical to the assessment and response to remote intersection challenges and ensures efficient mobility of transportation networks by collecting smart-city-ready traffic data.”
▶Booth 401 www.EDItraffic.com
Dr John Shearer of EDI
Setsuko Hattori of Aisin
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IRD's tireless efforts on road safety and tolling
Since unveiling its VectorSense tyre sensor technology at the ITS World Congress several years ago, International Road Dynamics (IRD) has developed practical systems that use its sensors to improve vehicle classification and tyre safety, highlighted on the company’s booth here in Singapore will see.
IRD’s AACT (Advanced Axle Classification for Toll) is a new system that uses VectorSense tyre sensors to provide more accurate single/ dual tyre classification in toll systems. It uses the tyre footprint information from the VectorSense sensors to provide detailed, real-time axle information that enables more accurate class information and verification of automatic vehicle classification (AVC). TACS is an advanced screening technology that helps agencies identify vehicles with potentially dangerous tyre anomalies before accidents occur.
As IRD points out, tyre
anomalies can result in vehicle imbalance, reduced manoeuvrability, improper load distribution, reduced braking performance, poor fuel economy, and reduced tyre life. Damaged tyres lead to breakdowns, expensive roadside repairs and increased costs due to freight being delayed.
Pavement damage can also result from increased loads on tyres when adjacent tyres are flat or mismatched in size.
The federal and provincial governments in the Netherlands have installed IRD’s TACS system to monitor tyres at highway speeds, while several enforcement agencies in the US
have integrated TACS into their commercial vehicle e-screening systems. IRD says these agencies have found TACS to be an effective method of identifying vehicles with tyre problems that are sufficiently serious to place vehicles out of service.
▶Booth 497
www.irdinc.com
SkedGo’s John Nuutinen takes over as new CEO
SkedGo co-founder John Nuutinen has been announced as CEO of the Mobility as a Service (MaaS) specialist, taking over from co-founder Claus von Hessberg, who will now focus on his role as chairman.
The company says this is part of a “strategic restructure” as SkedGo moves from start-up to “a scale-up phase”.
SkedGo is also launching a new software development kit - alongside its existing application programming interface – which it says will allow clients to add multi- and mixed-modal capabilities to their existing apps. The Australian company was founded 10 years ago, when von Hessberg saw that there was no coordination for his football team’s travel arrangements to matches.
“That led me to visualise a calendar which includes travel between scheduled events, making it possible to coordinate between attendees,” he explains.
▶Booth 539
www.skedgo.com
John Nuutinen of SkedGo
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Tour Singapore’s amazing mobility facilities
How does Singapore stay on top of the game amidst rising transportation demands and changing mobility landscape? This packed Technical Tour programme will provide not-to-be-missed insights of a range of elements that will give participants knowledge and new perspectives on Singapore’s best-in-class transportation systems. But hurry! Space is limited and participation is on a first come, first served basis. Visit the Technical Tour helpdesk at the registration area to check availability
▶ITS Operations Control Centre (OCC) and Singapore Mobility Gallery Tour
As part of this tour, delegates will visit the Intelligent Transport Systems Operations Control Centre as well as the Singapore Mobility Gallery housed at the Land Transport Authority.
The ITSC OCC is the nerve centre that manages traffic in Singapore. It operates 24/7 and has the capability of incident detection, sense making, ground resources deployment and the coordination and information dissemination via an integrated platform.
Delegates will also get to understand Singapore’s electronic road pricing (ERP) system and how it is being used as an effective demand management measure, to manage congestions in Singapore.
The Singapore Mobility Gallery offers a glimpse of a dynamic and complex land transport system, challenges in balancing efficiency, liveability and inclusivity, and how new technologies are harnessed to create a user-centric, future ready land transport system.
▶Predictive Maintenance for North East Line (NEL) MRT
Since 2017, NEL has been and remains the most reliable MRT line in Singapore. To sustain high levels of reliability, the focus is on developing predictive maintenance
capabilities to pre-empt failures before they occur, through condition monitoring of equipment and application of data analytics. Participants will also see a pair of train simulators as well as four sets of compact simulators to develop the preparedness and competency of staff in train driving during an emergency on the NEL and DTL.
Significantly, with the train simulators, defects and emergency scenarios can be simulated to train staff in responding safely and effectively.
▶Understanding the Dynamics of the Taxi Industry in Singapore
ComfortDelGro Taxi, a leading pointto-point transport operator for over four decades, manages and maintains the largest fleet of taxis in Singapore. Delegates will be given an overview about Singapore’s taxi industry plus a tour of its driver recruitment centre and taxi maintenance workshop.
▶Testing and Research of Autonomous and Connected Vehicle Deployment on Public Roads
Nanyang Technological University –CETRAN AV Test Centre is a two-hectare test facility that was launched in 2017 to support testing of AV’s navigation controls in a real-world environment. It is designed to replicate the different elements of Singapore’s roads, with common traffic
schemes, road infrastructure and traffic rules. The circuit also features a rain simulator and flood zone to test AVs’ navigation abilities under different weather conditions.
Meanwhile, the University's NXP Smart Mobility Test Bed is a campus-wide V2X (vehicle to everything) communication facility for the ITS community to collaborate in developing and testing next-generation transportation innovations that enhance commuter safety and transportation services. The V2X technology allows vehicles to communicate with each other, pedestrians' personal mobility devices (PMD) and roadside infrastructure for a safer and more efficient driving experience.
▶Bulim Bus Depot
Visit Bulim Bus Depot for a guided tour of bus depot operations. In 2015, competing with some of the world’s biggest bus operators, Tower Transit was awarded the Singapore government’s first competitivelytendered bus contract for 26 routes. The group, together with its sister company Transit Systems in Australia, has completed 20 successful operator transitions and works with governments to bring clean, reliable, efficient and personable bus services to the world’s top cities.
▶PSA Singapore Port Tour
PSA Singapore is the world’s largest container transhipment hub. It handled 36.31 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of containers in 2018. It is a fullyowned subsidiary of PSA International, a leading global port group and a trusted partner to cargo stakeholders around the world. As participants will see, PSA is sharpening its competitive edge with extensive development and implementation of port automation technology and intelligent inter-connected systems at its Pasir Panjang Terminals and the future Tuas port.
▶Singapore Maritime Gallery Tour
As the world’s busiest port in shipping tonnage, with more than 1,000 vessels calling at the port at any one time and connections to 600 ports in over 120 countries,visitors will be able to understand the thriving ecosystem that makes up Maritime Singapore and find out what makes Singapore a bustling maritime nation.
▶Research into Future Mobility Solutions
The tour will feature on-going research into future mobility carried out in Singapore by Tumcreate (a research centre at Create between the Technical University of Munich and the Nanyang Technological University), Smart Future Urban Mobility (a research centre of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Create) and SEC-FCL (the Future Cities Laboratory of the ETH Centre at Create).
These research centres are funded by the Singapore National Research Foundation under its Create (Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise) programme. The tour will feature research in each of these three centres.
▶NCS Centre of Digital Excellence (Code-X)
This tour takes in an innovative codevelopment workspace that combines NCS’ technology implementation experience with deep expertise in emerging technologies. Companies are helped to reimagine their future, perform agile prototyping of innovative concepts and unlock new growth opportunities that allow companies to compete in this new era of a data-driven digital economy.
▶Singapore City Gallery and URA’s Digital Planning Lab
As Singapore’s land use planning and conservation authority, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) actively explores and leverages new digital technologies to transform and improve planning processes. Discover how URA planners apply advanced geospatial simulation and visualisation methods to their work. Observe how various datasets over time and space are layered to efficiently guide planners on existing land use and infrastructure developments. Then experience a free guided tour of the revamped Singapore City Gallery, which showcases the nation’s dramatic transformation over the past 50 years.
▶Kim Chuan MRT Depot
Kim Chuan MRT Depot is the world’s largest underground depot. This tour will take you through the four-storey depot which hosts a two-level underground structure that provides garaging as well as operations and maintenance support for trains.
Kim Chuan Depot houses SMRT’s Rail Operations Centre for the North-South, East-West and Circle Lines. It is able to monitor trains that run through the stations. The depot also houses equipment such as overhead cranes, a train wash plant and an under-floor cleaning plant. Another notable feature of Kim Chuan Depot is its automatic storage and retrieval system. At 23 metres high, it is the tallest underground automated warehouse system in Singapore and it can store up to 2,000 pallets and 22,000 bins.
▶Singapore Bus Training and Evaluation Centre
Established in 2015 by SMRT Roads, the Singapore Bus Training and Evaluation Centre (SG BTEC) is a state-of-theart simulation training centre for bus professionals. SMRT leverages the awardwinning Prolearn that uses data analytics to monitor driving behaviour and identify at-risk drivers. Prolearn provides an evidence-based approach to develop safe driving habits and proactively reduces accident risk. It shapes and improves driving behaviour, resulting in safer and more comfortable rides. Prolearn is a modular and flexible system, which can be easily customised to fit other transport operators.
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Come on board at InnoSuite as we share and discuss innovative ideas and solutions for smart, safe and sustainable cities. You will experience and learn how technology is making a quiet yet lasting impact for organisations and cities, and their citizens.
▶IBM Studio Singapore - Innovation with the IBM way!
The IBM Studio Singapore is a new design centre to help clients reinvent their business for the digital age and develop individualised experiences through a combination of cognitive capabilities and experience design. Delegates will learn about digital transformation strategy, cognitive experience design and development, mobile and omni-channel applications as well as digitally enhanced customer journeys and the success stories of some IBM’s transportation industry clients leading from the IBM Studio.
▶ST Engineering Autonomous Shuttle Public Trial In Sentosa
This tour takes participants to Sentosa, where they’ll get to ride on Singapore’s first on-demand autonomous shuttle bus. A collaboration between ST Engineering, the Ministry of Transport and Sentosa Development Corporation, this autonomous shuttle service is part of a three-month public trial. Experience first-hand how the bus navigates mixed traffic situations in an urban setting, communicates with road users and commuters, while providing a safe and smooth ride.
Participants will also be given a behind-the-scenes introduction to ST Engineering’s proprietary autonomous vehicle management system (AVMS), which monitors the real-time operational status of the autonomous buses and optimises their utilisation.
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The demonstration programme at this year’s ITS World Congress is very much focused on future mobility. And the demonstrations are being staged at an incredible location, just five minutes from Suntech by shuttle, on the world’s largest floating stage, the Float @ Marina Bay, with its incredible backdrop of Singapore’s skyline. If you have not already pre-booked using the Congress mobile app, visit the demonstration desk at Suntec (next to the registration area) where delegates can get more information on the demonstrations and book places
▶Voloport By Volocopter In Collaboration With Skyports - Showcase Of The World’s First Full-Scale Air Taxi Vertiport Prototype
Urban air mobility is coming and here is your chance to see the future. The focus will be on the Voloport but today there is a press event at mid-day, when Volocopter’s first Proof of Concept flight will take place, and which will be seen right around the Bay area. However, a full-scale model of the Volocopter 2X air taxi will be on display in the VoloPort prototype throughout the Congress for delegates to see.
VoloPorts are the physical landing pads for so-called eVTOL (electric takeoff and landing) aircraft or air taxis. This ground-based infrastructure is critical to the success of future urban air mobility (UAM), particularly air taxi operations in congested cities. Vertiports are the only physical infrastructure required for air taxis to commence operations in cities in the near future. This VoloPort prototype allows the two partners, UK-based global vertiport owner and operator Skyports, and air taxi pioneer Volocopter to perform
real-life testing of the customer journey and showcase operational processes. VoloPorts are designed to provide passengers with a seamless air taxi experience that is safe, secure, and relaxing. They will merge with their surroundings, allowing passengers and passers-by to see through the whole structure. VoloPorts are a crucial step in making UAM a reality.
▶AI Robotics – Technology Transforming Vehicles To Robots On Wheels
AI Robotics is demonstrating its cutting-edge technology, which transforms any vehicle into an autonomous robot. Mimicking the actions of human beings, its computer vision software uses cameras to localise and manoeuvre itself. By presenting the retrofitted vehicle with various obstacle scenarios, AI Robotics is showcasing its technology’s ability to effortlessly and safely
▶Comfort Delgro – EZ10: The Smart Shuttle For Future Mobility
The future is here, now! Singapore-based ComfortDelGro, one of the world’s largest land transport companies, and its partners Inchcape Singapore and EasyMile, are demonstrating the EasyMile EZ10 autonomous shuttle. Delegates will get to board and experience first-hand what it feels like to be ferried around in one of the most widely deployed autonomous vehicles in the
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Experience MooVita’s MooShuttle, a safe and comfortable self-driving shuttle. The shuttle product range is suitable for moving people in urban areas, allowing short distance ferrying tasks to be easily automated. Participants will experience how the shuttles navigate a fixed route, responding to scenarios, such as point-to-point navigation to, for instance, bus stops; obstacle detection and avoidance; traffic light adherence; and automated parking/docking.
▶Land Transport Authority (LTA), Singapore – Smart Public Bus Of The Future (A Concept)
This demonstration aims to highlight some of the features that the young think the smart bus of the future could have.
In 2017, LTA organised the Smart Bus Challenge where graduates and young professionals were invited to play a part in rethinking and co-creating concepts that can change the way commuters travel on public buses. After the conclusion of the challenge, selected ideas from the submissions were chosen to be integrated into a single bus to showcase what the public bus of the future could look like through the lenses of the young.
The demonstration will share some proof of concept features that LTA is cocreating with the industry as part of its on-going collaboration with industry to . co-create improvements to Singapore’s public buses. Some of these improvement and features will also be shared in this demonstration.
▶ST Engineering Land Systems – Come Aboard The Navya Autonom Shuttle, The Electric And Autonomous Mobility Service
discover an autonomous and fluid travel, with neither a steering wheel nor pedals.
▶Quantum Inventions / Continental –Improving Road Safety For Fleets And Drivers Through Connected, Advanced
Crash-free driving will be the norm in the future. At the demonstration site, Quantum Inventions, a Continental company, will showcase the use of V2X technologies for improved communication and safety on the road. The demonstration leverages V2X to form ad-hoc networks of connected vehicles that alert other road users about collision risks. It also detects driver fatigue events and communicates this to nearby vehicles to increase awareness and minimise accidents. Visual interfaces dedicated to communicating blind spots can also be disseminated to further enhance road safety.
▶NTU-Volvo-SMRT – World’s First Electric Autonomous Bus
The first organisation to trial an autonomous vehicle on Singapore roads, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) is at the forefront of autonomous vehicle (AV) technologies since 2013. Apart from test-bedding autonomous buggies and utility vehicles, NTU is also developing the world’s first full-size 12-metre electric and autonomous bus on its Smart Campus.
NTU researchers have designed and developed the AV software controller stack necessary for localisation, navigation and object detection, and classification using different sensor-based hardware that include 3D lidars, radars, RADARs, cameras, GPS and IMUs. This is also available in the form of AV kits which incorporate hardware and software implementations that convert manually-driven vehicles into complete level 4 and level 5 fully-autonomous vehicles.
A unique controller algorithm is required to mimic the normal manual driving capabilities of a human driver, enabling autonomous or driverless vehicle operation along any specific routes. Cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) systems are integrated in the AV Bus platform to facilitate autonomous object detection and classification, ensuring a seamless and reliable ride.
TDS shows upgraded WIM enforcement
Germany-headquartered Traffic Data Systems (TDS) is on the ITS Deutschland & City of Hamburg Pavilion to highlight that it is still the only manufacturer in the world capable of supplying low- and high-speed weighin-motion (WIM) systems complying with the OIML R134 standard for enforcement and tolling applications.
TDS is using the ITS World Congress to showcase the latest design of its WIM-DSP 32/ TMCS-IP WIM enforcement/ tolling system. The TMCS is now also available in a solid, all-aluminium enclosure to protect against dust and water,
called TMCS-IP, similar to TDS’s proven WIM-DSP 32.
TDS is also promoting its collaboration with the city of Hamburg to set up Germany´s first fully automated WIM enforcement system to be certified by the Federal Institute of Metrology (METAS), Switzerland, and – it hopes – also by PTB, the German metrological institute.
This highway installation will not only be equipped with WIM sensors, but also with ANPR and overview cameras, laser scanners and profilers, as well as a fully-equipped road weather information system (RWIS). Meanwhile, TDS points
out that it is currently capable of providing OIML R134-certified low-speed and high-speed WIM systems for a speed range of 5 km/h to 120 km/h for HGVs (heavy goods vehicles) and for 5 km/h to 140 km/h for LGVs (light goods vehicles).
Accuracies of ±5% (initial verification) and ±10% (inservice inspection) according to
OIML R134 have been achieved (temperature range -30°C/+75°C with a relative humidity of up to 85%).
Traffic Data Systems’ latest research and development aims to improve accuracies to ±2.5% (initial verification) and ±5% (inservice inspection).
▶Booth 501 www.traffic-data-systems.com
Flowly offers powerful tool for transit operators
For anyone involved in public transportation, a visit to Flowly at the ITS France Pavilion is essential.
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A start-up supported by Transdev and BPI, Flowly tracks the flow of travellers allowing public transport managers to optimise, or even redesign, operations.
As the company points out, knowing as much as possible about the use of a transport network or public place through data collected continuously and in real-time, provides a powerful tool.
In the first instance, Flowly collects the passive traces emitted by travellers‘ devices during their journey, connected sensors installed in vehicles and/or at stations.
It then compares this data with other sources such as ticketing data, recent surveys, and on-board counting devices. This exhaustive information is treated in real-time and published on a dedicated user-friendly platform.
In this way, operators have easy access to what is happening on their network (real-time mobility flows) and to the global history. It also provides schedule comparison as well as transfer between lines/modes filtered by date, location, and vacation periods, among others.
Developing this technology further and to move beyond operators reacting to events, Flowly is currently working on a predictive process to correlate operational data with other criteria, such as weather, local events, and fraud pre-vision.
▶Booth 493
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In the palm of your hand: a ClearGuide to the future
Iteris is showcasing its transportation analytics solution, Iteris ClearGuide, on the ITS America Pavilion at this year’s World Congress. According to the company, this state-of-the-art mobility intelligence platform is designed to help transportation agencies achieve safer, more efficient mobility for their networks.
Iteris ClearGuide solution, which is available for demonstrations during the event, enables transportation agencies to monitor traffic congestion on their roadways and identify anomalies and their causes.
As a result, agencies can allocate budget and resources to generate the best return on investment.
ClearGuide gathers large amounts of complex data from roadside sensors, third-party providers and connected vehicles, then presents users with real-time and historical analytics to support operational and planning decisions.
Iteris is also providing visitors with demonstrations on Iteris SPM, the foundation of its Intersection-as-a-
Service offering, as well as its multimodal intersection analytics software, VantageLive! In addition, the company is also highlighting the next generation of video detection equipment for vehicle, bicycle and pedestrian presence detection, built on Iteris’ Vantage Next platform. ▶Booth 401 www.iteris.com
Bentley buys up Citilabs and Orbit
Infrastructure software specialist Bentley Systems is continuing to expand its portfolio with its just-announced acquisition of Citilabs and Orbit Geospatial Technologies.
Citilabs provides the global mobility solution CUBE and analytics package Streetlytics, while Orbit offers the Orbit GT software. Bentley CEO Greg Bentley did not reveal the size of the deal.
The move will allow Streetlytics traffic data to become available through Bentley’s cloud services, to improve the quality of digital twin models that bridge the physical and virtual world.
According to Robert Mankowski, Bentley’s vice president, digital cities, mobility is a priority opportunity for digital twins, because too often existing planning and simulation efforts are disconnected from the infrastructure’s engineering reality.
‘With these acquisitions we can now bring together traffic simulations with automated mobile mapping workflows for reality modelling of roadways,” he says.
Citilab’s CUBE simulation software is a predictive transportation technology that allows engineers and planners to design and optimise safe, efficient and sustainable
mobility systems. Streetlytics provides mobility data and analytics for planners, engineers and infrastructure asset managers, allowing them to make informed decisions on transportation requirements.
Citilabs CEO Michael Clarke says the company’s mission has been to enable its customers to leverage location-based data, behavioural models, and machine learning through its products to understand and forecast movement in cities, regions and nations.
▶Booth 216
www.citilabs.com
Ramin Massoumi of Iteris
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Q-Free celebrating 35 years of global success
More than 35 years ago, Q-Free set out to create sustainable traffic solutions that would transform the way people move.
Visitors to the company’s booth here in Singapore can see how, today, Q-Free’s solutions are deployed across all continents to meet challenges unimaginable when the company started.
Q-Free’s appearance at this year’s World Congress is very much a celebration of proven, long-term success, with it focusing on projects that reflect its growth and expertise – as well as its capabilities as a proven solutions provider across the transport sector.
Q-Free is highlighting a range of projects, including the tolling installation on Sydney’s Cross City Tunnel; geo-fencing for smart urban mobility in Oslo; new outdoor parking sensors in the US; and using AutoPass
solutions for barrier-free payment and access control on ferries at Norwegian ports.
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Q-Free is also featuring its range of state-of-the-art tolling solutions, and showing how Its technology and products, combined with consulting and managed services, ensure that the right choices are made at every point in the tolling process – from definition to realisation and on-going operation.
Its systems enable public and private operators to collect sustainable means of funding for new infrastructure, which can then be used to keep existing roads safely maintained, as well as reducing road congestion and air pollution through congestion charging schemes.
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CLOSE TO CHINA LIFT-OFF
Urban air mobility (UAM) has significant potential in the megacities of China, according to flying taxi company Volocopter. “UAM can be huge in China,” says Florian Reuter, CEO of Volocopter. “It has great potential. But we always said if we go to China, we need a good local partner.”
Now Volocopter has just announced a joint venture with Chinese auto giant Zhejiang Geely to launch air taxis in the country. Reuter says he is also interested in developing the service in Japan – although no details have been disclosed. “There are discussions,” he told Daily News.
Volocopter, whose first urban flight in Europe was in Stuttgart last month, will be demonstrating its electric 2X model at ITSWC this week, taking off from Skyports “vertiport” on The Float at Marina Bay.
▶The Float, Marina Bay www.volocopter.com
Volocopter's Florian Reuter (left) and Duncan Walker of Skyports
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WE'RE HERE TO REDUCE THE CHAOS IN YOUR CITY!
How can I reduce the chaos in my city? That’s a question many at the ITS World Congress are asking themselves. Location intelligence specialist Here Technologies is inviting delegates to visit its booth to find out why it could be the answer.
The world’s leading location platform and a major partner of the World Congress is bringing its market-leading solutions to life throughout this event, with a focus on harmonising urban mobility. Here Technologies will help visitors understand how location intelligence can move a city towards a frictionless and autonomous future.
Demonstrations of its technology will show how unique mobility challenges can be solved – whether in the automotive, transport and logistics or public sectors.
The company says it can solve challenges across a vast range of areas, including new mobility, connected vehicle services (CVS), vehicle safety, and fleet and traffic management.
On Wednesday, Here Technologies and Siemens Mobility are teaming up to offer an essential workshop: “How to harmonise urban mobility.”
Delegates are invited to reserve a seat
through www.here.com/ITSWC19 to ensure they keep up with the cutting edge of location.
Here Technology has been helping the world move more safely and efficiently for the last 20 years: first as Navteq, then as Nokia, and now as a 9000-people strong company owned by the likes of Daimler, BMW, Audi, Bosch.
Today, the company plays a major role in enabling smoother movement of citizens and goods throughout the world – through rich, fresh and accurate realtime intelligence hosted on what it says is the world’s most comprehensive location platform.
▶Booth 95
www.here.com/ITSWC
Gewi highlights solution to major automated driving challenge
Gewi is in Singapore to demonstrate how it has met one of the major challenges that need to be overcome to realise the benefits of automated driving (AD): ensuring changes in road conditions due to construction, weather or events are properly recognised by the vehicle, to ensurean appropriate AD response.
Gewi’s TIC software, used in 31 countries, can connect data between road agencies, service providers, and vehicles, allowing two-way communication for the sharing of current conditions, restrictions, and more.
In the case of a work zone, road agencies can provide precise real-time roadway data to be applied by the vehicle to ensure safe navigation of changing road parameters.
In return, an AD vehicle can provide road agencies with invaluable data, for example, TIC collecting pothole data from the vehicle to automatically create repair projects based on agency protocols.
Other data, including adverse weather conditions, slippery roads and others, can also be collected by TIC for distribution to drivers through navigation systems, broadcasters, VMS and more.
In addition, TIC can be used by service providers to collect and harmonise data from many other sources, analyse its quality, and provide the highest quality data as a single comprehensive feed.
▶Booth 375 www.gewi.com
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Lessons learnt from Siemens’ ‘Apollo mission’
Siemens says its project in Singapore to connect autonomous vehicles (AVs) with intelligent road infrastructure has potential to benefit the wider mobility sector. At present the work exists at the test bed of Singapore’s CETRAN AV testing facility at Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
But the island city-state’s restricted geography and unusual political situation – the national government is, in effect, also the local government, streamlining decisionmaking – raises a legitimate question over how transferable this will be to other cities and regions.
Speaking at the ITS World Congress 2019, Fred Kalt, head of Siemens Mobility ITS, Asia Pacific, acknowledges the debate over whether it was “a role model or a lighthouse project”.
But Kalt insists there would be wider learnings for the mobility industry, likening it to NASA’s Apollo missions.
“The world can benefit from what we’re doing here,” he says. “A lot of people benefitted from the technology to send people to the moon.”
At CETRAN, Siemens is working with NTU for Singapore’s Land Transport Authority to demonstrate Vehicle to Everything (V2X) technology that includes on-demand AVs able to deal with pedestrians in the roadway and traffic light-timing extensions to smooth passenger journeys. Singapore has ambitious plans for AVs in its transit ecosystem, pledging to deploy island-wide autonomous buses and shuttles by 2030.
While Siemens says that “millions” of simulations have taken place using advanced software to collect massive amounts of data along with the work at CETRAN, there is no timetable for putting the technology into practice on Singapore’s streets.
“We are using standard products to complement this other information,” says Michel Obadia, CEO of Siemens Mobility Asia Pacific. “This will happen step-wise, as we develop use cases.”
▶Booth 343 www.siemens.com
Sice demos Sidera
Sice, a system integrator in the fields of ITS, tolling, rail, and smart cities, is in Singapore to promote its services across all project stages, from design, procurement, deployment and configuration, to testing, commissioning and maintenance.For ITS and operations, including maintenance of roads and tunnels, Sice is holding demonstrations of Sidera, its comprehensive centralised management solution.
This proven solution has seen excellent results in the management of more than 2500 km of roads, and more than 346 km of tunnels worldwide, tailored to specific project requirements.
Sice’s Sidera demonstration corner will operate at its booth during the programmed coffee breaks to show the possibilities and functionalities of its software system.
▶Booth 71 www.sice.com
Gridsmart pedals huge leap forward for cyclist safety
Gridsmart is here in Singapore to highlight a new software release, Version 19.3 of its cyclist safety system, which it says delivers a significant advance in cyclist safety, providing safe and adequate clearance time for riders to cross busy intersections.
Version 19.3 protects cyclists where they are most vulnerable: at intersections. It sees cyclists into, and all the way through, the intersection, responding with green “go” extensions based on their real-time actions.
As Gridsmart points out, its system doesn’t cater to the slowest common denominator or guess how long a cyclist might take to clear an
intersection. “Green time” is reduced for cyclists who quickly clear the intersection and increased for slower users who need more time.
According to Gridsmart, other vendors simply provide long green times whenever they think they see a cyclist at the stop-line.
The company says that long green times are not based on individual cyclists or their path through the intersection, but on statistics meant to protect slower travellers.
When every cyclist is treated as a statistic, green time is wasted for faster cyclists, while the slowest riders might be put in harm’s way.
▶Stand 472 www.gridsmart.com
Lauren Jochum of Gridsmart
Singapore looks to CREATE new transport solutions
Singapore-based CREATE (the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise) is an international research campus and innovation hub that collaborates with research institutes and top global universities to address the city’s transport issues and provide solutions.
Visitors can meet the researchers behind the innovations and see three examples: Tumcrete, Smart-FM and ETH-SEC.
Tumcrete’s Dynamic Autonomous Road Transit system uses fully connected autonomous electric vehicles and is said to be the first complete autonomous public transport concept that caters for Singapore’s public transport system.
Visitors to the booth can learn how this concept is being realised through various
interactive demonstrations showing the planning and operation strategies.
Also on the booth is Singapore’s first selfdriving wheelchair, developed by Smart’s Future Urban Mobility research group, and which uses computer vision and machine learning to address complex navigation scenarios, from pedestrian to urban road environments.
And demonstrating its newly developed sketch planning tool, ETH-SEC will show how urban designers can plan neighbourhoods served by combinations of future transport modes.
CREATE is also involved in Special Interest Sessions and a Technical Tour.
▶Booth 326 www.create.edu.sg/
Fewer traffic jams, better traffic flow
Germany-headquartered PTV is in Singapore to highlight its Optima solution, which provides detailed traffic forecasts in a rolling horizon, from 5, 10 or 30 minutes up to an hour.
PTV’s traffic management software identifies the best scenarios to manage congestion, road closures or construction sites, and to accurately simulate the interaction of all vehicles and pedestrians – from a macroscopic to a microscopic level. PTV Optima’s model continually updates itself in response to changing conditions and to provide operators with live information.
The software fuses different data sources for a detailed analysis of the current traffic state across an entire network, which also includes nonmonitored roads.
According to PTV, Optima is an ideal tool to improve traffic flow and capacity, and helps reduce emissions.
▶Booth 367 www.ptvgroup.com
Trial of Aimsun Live in Singapore completed
Aimsun Live, the decision support system for realtime traffic management that’s at the heart of Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) technology trial for a real-time traffic simulation and predictive system is being showcased by the Aimsun team at the World Congress.
The recently completed trial evaluated how Aimsun Live’s traffic simulation-based solutions and prediction capabilities could assist LTA in managing Singapore’s traffic conditions faster and more effectively.
This integrated system will support decision-making related to current and future traffic challenges by predicting nearfuture traffic conditions and
then simulating the impact of different traffic response plans to recommend the best plan for implementation.
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to automatically adjust traffic demands to accurately simulate the on-going recorded demand situation, support historical event evaluation and study
the impact of future modes of transportation.
This is also the first system to link Aimsun Live to SCATSIM in Singapore to emulate the actual adaptive traffic signal control of the SCATS system, providing a more accurate representation of the real-time traffic signal operations. Looking to future transport options, this trial also incorporated connected and autonomous vehicles in a mixed-behaviour environment, demonstrating the possibilities of driverless vehicles in the Singapore network.
Aimsun is proud to have participated in this trial and demonstrated its urban mobility solutions.
▶Booth 323 www.aimsun.com
Karen Cheung of Aimsun
CUBIC INNOVATIONS AND NEXTCITY VISION
Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) is on the ITS Australia Pavilion in Singapore featuring a number of innovations including its artificial intelligence-enabled Virtual Ticket Agent; the Cubic Transport Management Platform; in-vehicle messaging for connected cars; Trafficware’s ATMS central traffic management system; and Synchro traffic analysis software.
As well, Cubic is highlighting how its NextCity vision is another step closer to reality following its strategic acquisitions of Trafficware and Gridsmart, which has its own stand at the event.
The combination of Cubic’s expertise in public transit, road user charging and transport management, in conjunction with new advanced detection and intersection management capabilities, gives the company unprecedented insight into
what is happening across a city’s transport network – and how to optimise it to reduce congestion and protect vulnerable road users.
“Bringing these intelligent solutions together under our Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) business will make our NextCity Operations and Analytics pillar a reality and a cornerstone of all smart city capabilities,” says Chris Bax, VP of ITS Global Strategy at CTS.
Although Cubic’s legacy has traditionally been in larger metropolitan cities, the company also has an expanding footprint in surface transport management: recently Cubic won a contract to deploy its Transport Management Platform (TMP) as part of the New South Wales Intelligent Congestion Management Programme.
▶Booth 73 www.cubic.com
Come and see how Nokia connects the world
Nokia is in Singapore with a focus on how the company’s networking, analytics and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions enable highway operators to create safe, efficient and sustainable highway systems. On show are solutions for traffic management and tolling that reduce costs and increase safety with an intelligent ultra-broadband network. This supports real-time multimedia communications for traffic management systems, roadside sensors and cameras, travelers and other highway stakeholders.
Nokia is also focusing on intelligent operations, maintenance and security with lower operating expenses, while keeping travellers safe with IoT and analytics capabilities that support remote asset management, predictive maintenance, video analytics and a framework for deploying and managing IoT devices.
On Thursday, Nokia is hosting a workshop, Computing at the roadside, to enable delegates to discover how this technology can improve traffic flow and safety; enable advanced ITS services; and simplify road maintenance and operations.
Nokia’s roadside cloud delivers all the capabilities needed to provide ultra-responsive support for V2X (vehicle to everything) and safety-critical communications applications.
The company specialises in creating the technology to connect the world, having developed and delivered the industry’s only end-to-end portfolio of network equipment, software, services and licencing available globally.
According to Nokia, its research teams are leading the world to develop end-to-end 5G networks that are faster, more secure and capable of revolutionising lives, economies and societies. The company invites delegates to visit www.bell-labs.com/programs/ future-x-lab to learn more about Nokia Bell Labs’ Future X network architecture.
▶Booth 527 www.nokia.com/networks/industries/highways
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Fai Lam of Nokia
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