Xerox Demonstrates How Analytics Will Drive Decisions That Will Pave the Future of Improved Transportation
July 20 2015 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Several Xerox (NYSE:XRX) transportation solutions and analytics
innovations will be demonstrated today as part of the grand opening
of Mcity, the University of Michigan’s one-of-a-kind test site for
connected and automated vehicles. The 32-acre testing facility is
paving the way for a new mobility ecosystem that will completely
change the way humans and cargo travel around.
Xerox will demonstrate its work in solving transportation
problems of today and tomorrow, including:
- CloudParc technology guides drivers to
available parking spots using cameras and small computers mounted
on traffic poles to track the availability of spaces and transmit
the information to tablet devices within vehicles.
- Vehicle Passenger Detection
System (VPDS) uses video analytics to
identify the number of occupants in a vehicle, which allows
transportation and law enforcement agencies to monitor and enforce
the use of High Occupancy Vehicle/High Occupancy Toll (HOV/HOT)
lanes. This data is transmitted over a Dedicated Short Range
Communications (DSRC) channel to signal to the driver if they are
HOV/HOT qualified via a roadside sign and an in-vehicle
display.
- Merge®, a city-wide smart parking
solution, enables guided parking, predictive enforcement, meter and
pay-by-cell management, and demand-based pricing – all layered with
analytics to increase parking program efficiencies and reduce
traffic congestion.
“Data analytics is essential to providing the insight we need to
make vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication
a reality,” said Joe Averkamp, senior director, technology, policy,
and technical strategy, Xerox. “Xerox can help cities handle the
strategic information to build the necessary transportation
networks to best manage urbanization, creating a distinct
competitive advantage that will allow urban areas to flourish.”
The Ann Arbor, Mich. facility is the first controlled
environment specifically designed to test connected and automated
vehicle technologies in the world. The site is reflective of a
typical city street with sidewalks, construction obstacles, traffic
signals, parked cars and pedestrians.
To shape the future of urban mobility across the country, Xerox
has a three-year partnership with the University of Michigan
Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). Xerox is a member of the
Mobility Transformation Center’s Leadership Circle along with State
Farm, Honda, Nissan, Verizon, Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Bosch,
Econolite, Delphi Automotive PLC, DENSO Corporation, Iteris, Inc,
and the Michigan Department of Transportation.
UMTRI plans to establish a network of more than 20,000 connected
and automated vehicles on the streets of Ann Arbor by 2021.
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management company helping organizations transform the way
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employees and do business in more than 180 countries. Together,
we provide business process services, printing
equipment, hardware and software technology for managing
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