IBM Helps Sao Paulo Create an Intelligent Transportation System

The regulatory agency of transportation in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo Agência de Transporte do

Estado de São Paulo (ARTESP) has joined hands with IBM to create an information center in the city

to enhance quality of transportation services provided by the local operators. The center with the

help of advanced analytics will unify data collected from across 271 cities to enhance security and

quality in the public transport sector.

IBM servers will be at play here. The state-of-the-art system will be built on IBM Intelligent

transportation technology and will transform the conventional data collection procedure of the

regulatory body. What was once done through manual inspection over 4000 miles of road network

will now be done through Operational Control Centers which will cover over 30 state highways. This

will not only improve precision but will also lead to significant cost cuts in the state budget.

According to ARTESP general director, Karla Bertocco Trindade, the transportation sector of Sao

Paulo will be greatly benefited through the use of IBM technology as they can now view the data

real time and will effectively increase efficiency and security in the state highways in the region.

Prior to this, the contractors used to submit inconsistent data regarding road conditions and

incidents and there was no safety net to verify their information. Now using revolutionary Big data

analytics the Information Control Center can process data it receives from weather stations, sensors

call boxes and other devices integrated into the network. This gives them precise data regarding rate

of traffic flow, incidents and revenue collection throughout the highway network. The Information

Control Center is the first step in creating an intelligent transport system for Sao Paulo.