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Application Certificate of Merit
 
ETMS - Engineering Works and Traffic Information Management System
Submitted by MTR Corporation and City University of Hong Kong

ETMS seeks to maximize the quality of passenger train services provided by Hong Kong's MTR Corporation. It does so by leveraging innovative artificial intelligence techniques to streamline and automate planning and scheduling of all engineering works perf o rmed at night during non-traffic hours. In line with its mission-critical status, ETMS can achieve better enterprise application integration, web-based self-service functions, better safety and implementation control, and better accessibility to information and communications.
 
Judges' Comments
"Enables the complicated planning of more than 1,000 engineering tasks
for over 50 stations during less than four non-traffic hours nightly. . . safetly and efficiently schedules a variety of engineering assignments for some 1,000 workers ...has increased capacity for engineering tasks by 200 per cent."
 
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