UK explores sentiment mapping for intelligent transport system
Projects brewing at a UK government-funded research center for transport include two-passenger pods and sentiment mapping. Sentiment mapping is considered a way to better understand what passengers think and feel as they use transportation services to get from place to place. A report in The Guardian on Saturday said that an innovation center is being launched in Milton Keynes to serve as a facility for the government's Transport Systems Catapult (TSC), part of a network of seven technology and innovation canters. The projects are driving collaborations among academics, and technologists, and business people. The Transport Systems Catapult has ambitious goals; the aim is to drive business growth, attract investment, and create jobs through Intelligent Mobility innovation, according to the TSC web site. With the facility at Milton Keynes, TSC aims to be a collaborative center enabling the UK to become globally recognized "as the go-to place for expertise in...