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Messaging Services for Public Transit

The NBCC Mobile First Technology initiative (MFTi) developed software for industrial client ReadyPass developed an advanced prototype called Messaging Service for Public Transit that demonstrates the use of progressive Web technologies to provide real-time alerting services to riders and transit company operators.

Research topics

progressive Web, public transit, situation awareness, Google Polymer

MFTi has established an ongoing collaboration with industrial client ReadyPass, a company based in Fredericton and Halifax that has develop automated vehicle location technology for public transit operators and a corresponding mobile app for transit riders. In its first project with ReadyPass, MFTi developed an advanced prototype called Messaging Service for Public Transit that demonstrates the use of progressive Web technologies to provide real-time alerting services to riders and transit company operators. The prototype also demonstrates a means for developing new revenue channels through advertising.

This project is one of the first two demonstrations of MFTi’s Smart Communities program. This program is designed to foster co-creation among public and private partners of technologies that help cities and residents address life-critical needs. Development of co-creation projects having commercial value began in November 2016 with the City of Fredericton’s CIO. The City has provided crucial domain expertise and data.

Maurice Gallant, CIO of the City of Fredericton, stated: “We are working on a smart city initiative with Dr. Bill McIver. Bill is a friend of the City and many of us have worked with him in the past and have been impressed at how he gets things done!”

File 1. Screen shot of Messaging Services for Public Transit prototype developed by MFTi.

File 2. Screen shot of Messaging Services for Public Transit prototype developed by MFTi.

NBCC Team

• Rezk Bouras & Laura Melles, Research Technicians & NBCC Alumni
• William McIver Jr., Ph.D., NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Mobile First Technology, Principal Investigator

Client–Collaborator

• ReadyPass, Fredericton, New Brunswick & Halifax, Nova Scotia
• City of Fredericton

Funders

• National Research Council – Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC–IRAP)
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada - Industrial Research Chair for Colleges program

Project contact

William McIver Jr., Ph.D., NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Mobile First Technology, New Brunswick Community College

bill.mciver@nbcc.ca

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