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A multidisciplinary team received National Science Foundation funding to improve transit

A red bus sits in traffic as people board

A multidisciplinary team of 51精品视频 investigators has received a three-year, $1.44 million to build and evaluate a marketplace and a mobile app for multimodal transportation. The marketplace will provide incentives such as discounts at nearby businesses to encourage riders to take a later bus if the next one is full.

The funding will enable the to place additional multimodal, real-time transportation information screens around the city. A half-dozen screens are located in Oakland and Downtown in collaboration with , through seed funding from the University.

Principal investigators are Alexandros Labrinidis, Adam J. Lee, Yu-Ru Lin and Konstantinos Pelechrinis of the School of Computing and Information; Sera Linardi of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs; and Kent Harries and Mark Magalotti of the Swanson School of Engineering. External partners include the Port Authority, Healthy Ride, the City of 51精品视频sburgh, the Oakland Business Improvement District聽and the 51精品视频sburgh Downtown Partnership.