Information Technology University's Centre for Technology in Governance (CTG) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Lahore Transport Company (LTC), which will digitise all the public transport routes of Lahore to facilitate citizens. This MoU was signed by Dr Umar Saif, the Vice Chancellor of ITU and Khawaja Haider Latif, the CEO of Lahore Transport Company (LTC) in the presence of the ITU Registrar Zaheer Sarwar and LTC CTO Badi Khan and his team at Arfa Software Tech Park.
The aim of Lahore In Transit Project is to facilitate the commuters who primarily use urban public transport network. The project aspires to empower the commuters and to increase the reach of urban transport by dissemination of information. This will be an unprecedented step towards empowering the commuters and will place Lahore in the list of cities which use digital means to facilitate its citizens. The Lahore in Transit Project will be carried out in three phases.
In the first phase, all the geographic data on local transport in Lahore will be collected, digitised and uploaded on Google transit, making Lahore the first city in Pakistan to become accessible through Google transit. Citizens can then avail the facility of entering their current location and intended destination on Google Maps and access the most relevant intra-city public transport routes immediately. In the second phase of the project, LTC's existing SMS service will be optimised through the use of smart algorithms, which would enable commuters to plan their journey through a simple SMS. Alongside, it is also intended that a dedicated smart phone application will also be developed for this purpose.
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