The Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) are partnering to develop a validation and testing facility for automated fare assortment scheme (AFCS) that can enhance and profit mass transport techniques nationwide.
In a press release, the DOTr stated Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista and DOST Secretary Renato Solidum signed an settlement, which seeks to ascertain a laboratory testing facility positioned on the DOST-Electronics Product Development Center (EPDC) Bicutan, Taguig City, and govern the roles and tasks of the events relating to the Certification and Validation (C&V) Testing of Fare Media and Transit Readers for the AFCS.
Bautista stated the collaboration will present a number of cashless cost applied sciences for the driving public to expertise transportation commonplace just like the one being utilized in some nations within the Asian area.
“We believe that we need to conform to global standards in terms of everything that we do. I think this is the only way for us to improve our transportation system,” said Bautista.
“The DOTr-DOST partnership, which will be shown through this MOA, is a pure showcase of meaningful collaboration and improving and advancing the welfare of all stakeholders for the AFCS in the country,” added the Transport chief.
Under the memorandum of settlement, the DOTr and the DOST will set up state-of-the-art testing gear and validation facility for the AFCS National Standards (NS) by the Electronics Product Development Center (EPDC) managed by DOST-Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI).
The EPDC is the nation’s first devoted authorities electronics growth and one-stop-shop facility that may present design, prototyping, and testing providers for the electronics business, the MOU additional said.
Bautista is wanting on the Automated Guideway Transit (AGT), additionally developed by the DOST, in connecting the 4 terminals of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).
He stated the mass transport choice will profit passengers transferring inside NAIA Terminals 1 to 4.
The AGT is barely one of many different mass transport applied sciences developed by the Metals Industry Research and Development Center of the DOST.
There can also be the Hybrid Electric Road Train (HERT) which will be an choice for buses plying the EDSA Busway and for the continuing Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) initiatives within the nation. —LBG, GMA Integrated News
