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CCTV feed could cut wait at taxi stands

'Live' images can be fed back to cab despatch centres, which can direct cabbies to where fares are waiting. -ST

Thu, Oct 23, 2008
The Straits Times

By Christopher Tan, Senior Correspondent

STUCK in a taxi queue that is hardly moving?

Relief may come soon from a system of closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras at taxi stands feeding 'live' images back to cab despatch centres, which can direct cabbies to where fares are waiting.

Home-grown information technology company Stratech Systems is devising such a system in response to a call by the Media Development Authority (MDA) for industries to design innovative business solutions.




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