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New York MTA, Business Leaders Launch Tech Lab
The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority has joined with the city’s business community, represented by the Partnership for New York City, to launch the nation’s first Transit Tech Lab, which will identify and test new technology to help modernize the city’s public transportation network and contribute to improved services and a better customer experience.
“The MTA is committed to exploring every avenue to ensure that we modernize our system for the next generation of riders,” said MTA President Pat Foye. “We look forward to working closely with the partnership and making sure we’re doing everything in our power to embrace the sort of innovation that will move this organization forward.”The first lab projects will be to identify technologies that can move buses faster and reduce the impact of subway delays. Submissions are being requested by Nov. 30 from teams with products ready for beta testing with the MTA.
For the subway challenge, the Transit Tech Lab seeks technologies to better predict how long a subway delay will last and how it will affect trains and lines across the system, information that will be communicated to customers. The bus challenge seeks technologies to help public buses move faster and more efficiently.
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