Applications of high and low data rate UWB technology in public transportation

This abstract describes a series of possible applications of the ultra wide band wireless technology in public transportation environment. Application scenarios for both the high data rate technology based on WiMedia and the low data rate technology based on impulse radio are presented, indicating the specific advantages provided by UWB in comparison to other narrow band wireless standards. The work is performed in the EUWB ICT project to enable the introduction of the UWB wireless communication for the described application and is encompassed with a UWB demonstrator that is finally described.