The Metropolitan Transit Authority on Wednesday asked startups to contribute technology solutions to fight the spread of the coronavirus on New York City’s public transit, ranging from robots that automatically clean subway car interiors to thermal monitoring systems for passengers hopping onboard.
The call for technology is the latest challenge issued by the Transit Tech Lab, a startup accelerator run by the Transit Innovation Partnership, a collaboration between the civic nonprofit Partnership for New York City and the MTA that launched in October 2018 to help bring technology into the region’s transit systems, including the MTA, New York City Department of Transportation, NJ Transit and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
