McCain unveils Transparity TDX

First published at ITS America - June 5, 2019

Kevin Drummond of McCain

McCain has formally unveiled Transparity TDX (transportation data exchange) today here at the Annual Meeting. The product will provide a new cloud-based software platform serving a network of standards-compliant transportation applications and data processing services. As individual transportation systems are advancing, Transparity TDX is the answer to decades of challenges in ITS integration and connectivity to innovative technologies.

Transparity TDX enables rapid and secure integration of a multitude of emerging and existing applications, such as integrated corridor management systems (ICMS), regional traffic management, parking system events, and multimodal applications including transit priority, emergency vehicle pre-emption (EVP), and pedestrian and bike safety. Transparity TDX also provides long-term storage of high-resolution event data and performance reporting.

Greg McKhann, McCain’s chief operating officer, says the new platform will immediately create new efficiencies for agencies while positioning them for the connected and autonomous vehicle future without a huge, ongoing capital investment. “Transparity TDX addresses the problem of what to do with the billions of records generated by signals and intersections, and how to transform that information into actionable data,” he said. “As we transition into a fully connected world, data storage and access will become increasingly crucial. With TDX, traffic managers could arrive at work and within a few keystrokes immediately assess the health and performance of an individual traffic signal or an entire city.”

Among the many applications supported by Transparity TDX, McCain is inviting agencies to take a closer look at a few select applications here at ITS America. These include Transparity SPM Report Suite which gives traffic managers access to high-resolution performance measures at every level; and Transparity C2C which can also be utilised for regional coordination and data sharing between agencies. Integration with parking solutions like McCain’s Optipark parking guidance system (PGS) enables synchronisation between parking events and signal operations to give motorists parking guidance while providing parking facility operators with compelling low-cost alternatives compared to single-space systems.

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