Xerox is getting some national exposure for its development of products used to improve transportation.
Xerox has been working on software used in managing transportation for some time now, and this week that technology is being showcased at the opening of "MCity", which is the University of Michigan's test site for driverless technology and related applications.
Xerox's Chief Innovation Officer for public sector services is Ken Mihalyov. He says the company is highlighting technology that uses video cameras and software to help officials enforce the proper use of high occupancy vehicle lanes, and he says a lot of that technology was developed at the Webster campus. Mihalyov says this is an important part of Xerox's services business.
"Transportation is probably one of the top three services, businesses that we have at Xerox at this point and we've certainly identified it as something that's very important to us. "
Mihalyov says trends show that more of the millennial generation are choosing to live in cities, and that increases the need to find solutions to traffic congestion.
"We’ve been talking about ( at Xerox) the notion of urban mobility where we talk about taking all of the different kinds of mobility services that a city might have, both public and private, and tying them together in ways that enable the citizens to make the best use of all of those options."
Xerox is also partnering with other companies working on technology that helps drivers find available parking with their smartphones, and then pay for it.
This is a video demonstrating that "CloudParc" technology:
