City of Zhenjiang Taps IBM for Smart City Solutions
IBM PR, 2/24/12
IBM and the city of Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province have announced that IBM is helping to change the city's public transportation system. Zhenjiang will use hardware, software, services and technologies from IBM's research labs, all brought together through the IBM Intelligent Operations Center (IOC) for Smarter Cities - a solution that will serve as the central point of command for the city.
Zhenjiang has an estimated population of 3 mln people and has become an important regional transportation hub due to its location near the intersection of the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal. It is also considered a state model for environmental protection.
The "Smarter Zhenjiang, Smarter Tourism" project includes plans to replace and upgrade more than 400 bus stations and over 1,000 public transportation vehicles. In conjunction with the system-wide upgrade, Zhenjiang will use on IBM's Intelligent Transportation solution to provide city managers with a consolidated view of the transportation network, and initiate a new bus scheduling system that will use analytics technologies to manage traffic patterns and over 80 routes across the city.
An IBM Research-developed platform claims it will increase traffic throughput and improve the efficiency of its public transportation system while anticipating traffic jams before they happen. The solution will build on services assets that simulate transit fleets and passenger flow across the transportation network, while tapping into IBM technologies that enable real-time bus monitoring and route and dispatch management for the vehicle fleet.
The overall solution will provide a comprehensive, real-time picture of the city's traffic network to alleviate congestion, improve traffic management, maximize road capacity, rapidly respond to incidents and enhance the travel experience for citizens, business travelers and tourists.
According to Pike Research, by 2020 the Asia-Pacific smart city technology market will be worth USD 5.5 bln annually - a cumulative investment of over USD 36 bln between 2010 and 2020. China represents the largest single market in Asia for smart city technology, roughly 30 percent of the total opportunity.
Keywords: hardware software IBM Jiangsu smart city vehicle tracking intelligent transportation systems
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