Visit Kansas City Area Transportation Authority’s Garage to Learn About Their Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)
By Shared-Use Mobility Center
Dec 13, 2022
On November 10, 2022, the Shared-Use Mobility Center visited the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority’s (KCATA) headquarters. KCATA received a Federal Transit Administration’s Accelerating Innovative Mobility (AIM) grant to equip buses with an advanced driver assistance system that uses precision guidance sensors to dock at stations and provide level boarding across the agency’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system. The project will improve accessibility and reduce dwell time, providing a better customer experience.
This site visit video nicely pairs with a recent KCATA’s MIC blog post that includes details about the challenge to consistently maintain Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant gaps between the BRT stations’ platform and both doors of their buses on the Prospect MAX service.
Join us at KCATA’s garage as Jonathan Kreinbrink, Transit Technical Lead at RRAI gives us a status update on the installation process of Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) equipment for this demonstration project.
From left to right: Isaac Ojekunle (DevOps Engineer, RRAI), Michelle deSouza (Mechanical Engineer, RRAI), Bill Klarquist (Distinguished Engineer, RRAI), Jonathan Kreinbrink (Transit Technical Lead, RRAI), Alvaro Villagran (Director of Federal Programs, SUMC),
Shofi Azum (Senior Manager, Strategy and Innovation, KCATA), and George Fosu (Sr. Program Manager, RRAI).
November 10, 2022, Credit: Shofi Azum