Cubic to present NCMT at ITS Asia Pacific Forum

Dirk Van de Meerssche, sales and marketing director of the Asia Pacific region of Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) is to provide an overview of the National Connected Multimodal Transport (NCMT) Test Bed at the 15th ITS Asia Pacific Forum and Exhibition in Hong Kong from 26-29 June.
June 23, 2017 Read time: 1 min

Dirk Van de Meerssche, sales and marketing director of the Asia Pacific region of 378 Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) is to provide an overview of the National Connected Multimodal Transport (NCMT) Test Bed at the 15th ITS Asia Pacific Forum and Exhibition in Hong Kong from 26-29 June.

The NCMT Test Bed is the world’s first live urban laboratory capable of large-scale testing and implementation of emerging connected transport technologies in a complex urban environment. The Cubic Transport Management platform forms the core of the test bed by providing an enhanced system for data usage and analysis by transportation planners.

A joint project between Cubic and the University of Melbourne, the test bed will cover 4.5-square-kilometers of city and include a range of diverse, intelligent and distributed sensors that will study, test and deploy a variety of transportation connectivity innovations and management approaches.

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