Smart transportation application system established
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- Category: Ningbo News
- Published: Tuesday, 25 November 2014 13:48
"Ningbo Pass", the travel information service system based on the mobile phone terminal, was issued to the public in September 2013. Covering almost all the aspects of transportation including pedestrians, vehicles, roads, ships and ports, "Ningbo Pass" has 21 functions such as real-time bus information, public bicycle system, the transit traffic, train ticket balance, air traffic, express delivery check, vehicle repair and driving lessons, travel planning, traffic violation enquiry, accident report and taxi service. After over a year's operation, the system now has over 600,0000 users with half of them being active and a quarter of them being daily active users.
The traffic congestion index system for the central urban area of Ningbo is under internal testing and adjustment after the completion of technological R&D and hardware construction. The system, integrating the high-definition video information data from about 300 street corners of the central urban area and the GPS data from taxis, can be used to describe the traffic index from the three levels of road sections, main roads and road network of the major parts of the urban area.
To tackle the problem of car parking, the smart parking guidance system has been established. So far the parking guidance system has involved 16 parking lots in Haishu District and five in Jiangbei District. Through the system, the owners of private cars can have access to such information as the location of parking lots, the amount of parking spaces and their availability
