-business collaboration to solve urban traffic problems-
Toshiba Corporation and Toshiba Solutions Corporation today
announced that they have completed construction of a car sharing system for the
Lyon Confluence Smart Community Demonstration Project. The system implements
Toshiba’s solar-power based electronic vehicle charge management system and
entered commercial operation today. It will be operated by Proxiway, a wholly
owned subsidiary of Transdev. The system was under a program organized by
Japan’s NEDO (“New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization”).
This car sharing system is intended to ease traffic
congestion and the lack of parking spaces in the Lyon redevelopment area, and
to point the way to next generation traffic systems that will contribute to the
realization of a low carbon society. Thirty E-vehicles will be supported by
each plug-in recharge station, and three quick charge stations in addition. The
project will run for two years until December 2015.