Xerox and University of Michigan partner on urban mobility

Xerox is to form a three-year partnership with the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) to help shape the future of urban mobility across the country. The ultimate goal is to demonstrate how emerging automotive information-based systems and communications capabilities enable improved transaction-based business processes.
May 8, 2014 Read time: 2 mins
4186 Xerox is to form a three-year partnership with the 5647 University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) to help shape the future of urban mobility across the country. The ultimate goal is to demonstrate how emerging automotive information-based systems and communications capabilities enable improved transaction-based business processes.

In collaboration with the 324 US Department of Transportation (USDOT), MTC will develop a 30-acre simulated city called the Mobility Transformation Facility (MTF), which will be the largest on-road vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure test environment in the world.

Xerox will support the MTC’s research through its proprietary transportation offerings and data analytic capabilities, focusing on: integration of mobile device and automotive information-based systems for transaction management solutions, such as tolling and smart parking; integration of smart parking applications into automotive information-based systems through the Xerox Merge platform; integration and analysis of data provided by the USDOT’s Safety Pilot Model Deployment program to identify new opportunities in areas such as fleet performance monitoring, driver behaviour, road infrastructure quality and vehicle health and diagnostics; MTC’s independent testing and assessment of Xerox offerings’ performance, including Xerox’s recently announced vehicle passenger detection system, an HOV/HOT lane compliance test system that uses video analytics to identify the number of occupants in a vehicle.

Construction of the MTF is slated for completion by September 2014. UMTRI plans to establish a network of more than 20,000 connected and automated vehicles on the streets of south-eastern Michigan by 2021.

“Today, with the growing trend of urbanisation, the transportation systems that move people, goods and services around the world pose significant environmental, economic and social challenges,” said David Amoriell, vice president and chief operating officer, Government and Transportation Sector, Xerox. “The research conducted and data collected by Xerox and UMTRI will be critical in the worldwide reduction of vehicle collisions, energy consumption and carbon emissions, while improving overall urban mobility and quality of life.”
Charging, Tolling & RUC

Related Content

  • Favourable government initiatives and new business models boost Poland’s EV market
    June 29, 2017
    Poland’s electro-mobility market is ripe for growth, according to research organisation Frost & Sullivan. Favourable government initiatives such as the Electro-mobility Plan and Electro-mobility and Alternative Fuels Act are reshaping local mobility and igniting innovative clean technologies to achieve higher competitiveness and energy optimisation.
    Read More
  • Qualcomm: How Connected Driving Will Reduce Emissions in the EU
    September 14, 2023
    In an era marked by climate change and an urgent need for greener mobility solutions, the advent of connected driving has emerged as a promising frontier in the realm of transportation.
    Read More
  • Six easy steps to security
    October 22, 2018
    As security threats become increasingly vast and varied, multinationals are beginning to see the need for an effective global security operations centre to protect their organisation. James I. Chong spells out what is required. You know you need a global security operations centre (GSOC) to support what you’ve built, identify threats, and prevent disasters before they happen - but how do you know if it’s truly effective? There’s no shortage of information coming into operation centres. Too often, it’s the
    Read More
  • Study shows Irish speed cameras provide five-fold benefit
    April 30, 2015
    Ireland’s mobile speed cameras have been shown to save lives and money but face a legal challenge. David Crawford reports. In 2011 the Republic of Ireland introduced mobile safety cameras on dangerous roads which have, according to the country’s first cost-benefit analysis of the technology, saved an average of 23 lives a year.
    Read More

Highlighted Content