ARMONK, N.Y., Sept. 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and
The Agencia de Transporte do Estado de Sao Paulo (ARTESP), the regulatory agency that
oversees public transportation for the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, are announcing the
opening of the Information Control Center designed to help ensure
the quality of service provided by local operators of the state's
highways. The center will unify traffic data, incident management
and service delivery through the use of advanced analytics to
help ensure safer and more efficient travel for a population of 20
million across 271 cities.
The new system, built on IBM Intelligent Transportation
technology as well as consulting expertise from IBM and IBM
Business Partner Magna Sistemas will be based in the state
transportation agency's headquarters in Sao Paulo. The new center will capture, link
and unify data from Operational Control Centers of each of the 19
highway administrators that operate nearly 30 state roads. IBM
technologies will help the agency improve supervision of nearly
4,000 miles of state highways, something previously done only
through physical inspections.
"The Information Control Center for the state will be able to
oversee Sao Paulo's highways in
near real time. With IBM technology in place we will now have the
right tools to check quality of services provided by each
administrator and also the corresponding contract fulfillment,"
said ARTESP general director, Karla
Bertocco Trindade. "This kind of insightful data will add to
the comfort and safety for our citizens and extend the quality of
the highways in our state."
Prior to the launch of the new statewide Information Control
Center, each contractor could make varying or inconsistent
assessments of road conditions or incidents. The new solution built
on IBM Intelligent Operations Center enables the state to verify
and confirm incidents as they occur, allowing more efficient
handling and routing of traffic across the entire state. In
addition to data from each administrator's control centers—which
receive information through sensors, weather stations, call-boxes,
and other connected devices— the state's central information
control center will now also be able to centralize new data streams
such as traffic reports and revenue data from toll plazas.
By using sophisticated Big Data analytics, IBM's Intelligent
Operations software allows transportation agency employees to
gather better insights for smarter decision making to help diffuse
transportation and traffic issues, while IBM Maximo software will
be on hand to provide asset management throughout its highway
network in Sao Paulo.
"The push for a truly intelligent transportation system in
Sao Paulo is an unprecedented
project for Brazil," said
Eric-Mark Huitema, Global Smarter
Transportation Leader, IBM Smarter Cities. "Transportation
departments everywhere are up against a deluge of data. ARTESP is
using it to their advantage, engaging powerful analytics to glean
insights from the terabytes upon terabytes of traffic data that
will ultimately improve transportation for Brazilian citizens."
About IBM
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Transportation, visit
http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/transportation. To join the
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Twitter.
About Magna Sistemas:
Magna Sistemas has
eighteen years of experience delivering IT services, including
consulting, solution development, software advice, infrastructure
services, and information security. For more information:
http://www.magnasistemas.com.br/
Contact:
Alexander Aizenberg
IBM Media Relations
aizenberg@us.ibm.com
212-671-9616
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