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5/25/2022



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New York City area transit, port agencies to pilot tech for pandemic recovery


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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and New Jersey Transit will be part of a pilot program for emerging technologies designed to help transit agencies recover from the impacts of COVID-19.

Companies chosen through the Transit Innovation Partnership’s Transit Tech Lab will test their technologies over eight weeks, Transit Tech Lab officials said in a press release. Ten finalists were chosen out of 150 applicants to the COVID-19 Recovery and Environmental Sustainability Challenge, a global competition calling for tech to improve public transit safety and meet clean energy objectives.

The applications chosen use artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision and LiDAR.

The 2022 COVID-19 Recovery finalists are: Blyncsy, Salt Lake City; Clarifai, New York City; Invision AI Inc., Toronto; Quanergy Systems Inc., Sunnyvale, California; and Zensors Inc., San Francisco.

The Environmental Sustainability finalists are: GridMatrix, San Francisco; Microgrid Labs Inc., Boulder, Colorado;  Runwise Inc., New York City;  StormSensor, Seattle; and The Mobility House, Belmont, California.



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