A multidisciplinary team of Pitt investigators has received a three-year, $1.44 million NSF grant 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 Pitt Smart Living Project to place additional multimodal, realtime transportation information screens around the city. A half-dozen screens are located in Oakland and Downtown in collaboration with TransitScreen, 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 Pittsburgh, the Oakland Business Improvement District and the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership.