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Increasing urbanisation, mobility, and focus on sustainability issues bring new transport challenges: How can we continue to move where we want, when we want? Who owns and controls the transport infrastructure? How do we fund it and who is the customer? What is the role of regulation and industry cooperation?

A raft of sophisticated and increasingly affordable technologies has opened the floodgates to a torrent of new answers to these questions, all revolving around intelligent systems that use novel approaches to extract value from transport infrastructure and manage its use.

The business issues

New ITS technologies, business models and regulatory approaches are in constant competition for adoption and ubiquity. To capitalise on the massive opportunity presented by this growth area, ITS players such as infrastructure owners, transport providers and technology suppliers must invest in technologies that exhibit:

• Innovation — provide compelling and differentiated solutions to a continuous stream of new business opportunities and challenges
• Flexibility — operate effectively across different geographic, business and regulatory environments
• Agility — enable rapid adaptation to implement new ideas, thereby avoiding commoditisation
• Interoperability — comply with standards that facilitate industry cooperation
• Cost-effectiveness — minimise the operator’s cost to serve, while providing products that maximise value to the user
• Scalability and Reliability — dependably process massive transaction volumes in real-time

The technology challenges

Unico’s ITS team works alongside the customer to invent and deliver intelligent systems that address the customer’s business drivers without pinning the solution down to a specific business model or operating context. In doing so, we draw on over two decades of experience in mission critical systems design and development to find the best solutions to a range of ITS challenges:

• How to efficiently process highly-variable transaction loads
• How to handle a wide variety of anomalous events such as traffic re-routing in emergencies without over-complicating architectures
• Using a variety of heuristics to confidently and cost-effectively identify users of transport infrastructure
• Tracking and reconstructing vehicle journeys from limited detection data
• Handling failures in critical communications networks
• Architecting mission critical systems for flexibility and extensibility
• Simulating, monitoring, modelling and reporting on traffic patterns in real time

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