The Association of State Road Transport Undertakings (ASRTUs) Standing Committee (MIS, Computerisation and Transport Infrastructure), under the aegis of AP State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC), organised a meeting at a hotel here on Friday. Several officials from the State Road Transport Undertakings (SRTUs) from across the country took part in the day-long event aimed at mutual exchange of best management practices and other ideas linked to public transport.
On this occasion, APSRTC Vice-Chairman and Managing Director M. Malakondaiah inaugurated the organisation’s online tender process and underlined the plans to develop facilities across the State under the PPP model. Citing the integrated mass transit system at Surat in Gujarat, he stressed the need for implementing the same to suit the local conditions in the cities across AP.
Presentation on SMAC
Later, the APSRTC officials gave a presentation on SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analysis and Cloud), through which they established a connect with people via social media, followed by usage of mobile technology/applications, analysing digital data and access to cloud storage. The working of RTC’s Centralised Information System was also explained along with an analytics case study of the Hyderabad-based Intelytica, which had studied several trends of public transport in Guntur. The company, through their analytics tool Solution for Monitoring and Analysing Road Transport (SMART), collected details to sort them under route optimisation and ticket analysis to evolve a ‘decision support system’ for the authorities.