OREANDA-NEWS. December 23, 2015. Closing out the Innovate Mobility Challenge Series (IMCS) 2.0, Ford today announced that E-PASS ?-PASS, a software platform that uses data and machine learning to deliver predictive traffic information, won the Grand Prize in the Hsuehshan Tunnel Transformer Challenge. The conclusion of the challenge in Taiwan follows three other successful IMCS 2.0 challenges in 2015: in Sao Paulo, Mexico City and the Australian Outback.

Innovation and progress have been at the core of Ford’s company mission since its founding, and the IMCS invites participants to collaborate on crowd-sourced solutions that address the unique mobility challenges that different communities face. The challenge series began in 2014, with 14 cities around the world, and continued through 2015 with IMCS 2.0.

“Our mobility challenges have helped create a space where innovators and developers are coming together to help reshape the future,” said Ken Washington, vice president, Research and Advanced Engineering, Ford Motor Company. “From the very beginning, Ford has been about providing personal mobility for all, and today that means using the latest advanced technologies to address the transportation challenges people are facing in different parts of the world.”