Infostructure - A transport research project

Abstract

The book introduces an alternative solution to the current public transport crisis by augmenting existing public transport infrastructure with urban computing technology in order to alter them to INFOSTRUCTURES. The authors argue in essays for the introduction of urban computing technology into public transport and give an overview of state-of-the-art developments in public transport around the globe and digital technology by presenting research done with master students in architecture at University of Technology, Sydney and Bachelor students in digital computation at University Sydney. A total of twenty student projects presented with striking images together with a brief description of the projects give an impression of how ten students in architecture and ten further student in digital computation deal with the nexus of space, urban screens, sensor and mobile phone technology to wrap public transport with a new digital layer.