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#111 Distributed Transit Rider Messaging


Principal Investigator
Aaron Steinfeld
Status
Completed
Start Date
Feb. 1, 2012
End Date
Dec. 31, 2013
Project Type
Research Advanced
Grant Program
MAP-21 TSET - Tier 1 (2012 - 2016)
Grant Cycle
2012 TSET UTC
Visibility
Public

Abstract

Uncertainty, lack of transit system awareness, and feelings of isolation have negative impact on all riders, regardless of abilities, thereby reducing community livability and transit demand. Lower transit demand, in turn, decreases economic competitiveness and environmental sustainability. Our goal is to facilitate information sharing as a means of improving the transit experience of all riders, especially for those who cannot drive. Our system, Tiramisu (“pick me up” in Italian), is a social-mobile computing system intended to connect riders and transit service providers using universal design. Tiramisu’s development has been funded by the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Accessible Public Transit and the Traffic21 program. It has been deployed since the summer of 2011 through a spinout company Tiramisu Transit, LLC and is available to the public at www.tiramisutransit.com. We are currently advancing Tiramisu by implementing a rider-to-rider and rider-to-agency messaging system to help improve rider and agency awareness of current transit system state. We will adapt this system to support safety related messaging and information sharing with other CMU-Penn UTC systems. The system will allow riders to report situations observed and for the transit agency to push out critical news to riders who may be impacted by an unfolding situation.    
Description
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Timeline
February 2012 - December 2013
Strategic Description / RD&T

    
Deployment Plan
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Expected Outcomes/Impacts
Impacts/Benefits of Implementation (actual, not anticipated):	

It is too early to quantify actual impacts and benefits. Research is currently in progress on the efficiency and ease of use of the team’s safety-related content acquisition tools.
Expected Outputs

    
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Individuals Involved

Email Name Affiliation Role Position
steinfeld@cmu.edu Steinfeld, Aaron Robotics Institute PI Faculty - Tenured

Budget

Amount of UTC Funds Awarded
$211541.11
Total Project Budget (from all funding sources)
$211541.11

Documents

Type Name Uploaded
Final Report Distributed_Transit_Rider_Messaging.pdf March 21, 2018, 8:16 a.m.

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