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York Region Transit adds technology to enhance paratransit operations

March 18, 2009

York Region Transit (ON) implemented a mobile computing and CAD/AVL system for its paratransit service from Mentor Engineering and TranSched Systems.

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Breaking down the silos that isolate ridership data

March 17, 2009

In Passenger Transport, Curtis Pierce writes about the challenges of managing the streams of operational data available to transit agencies and presents some best practices.  An example: By merging CAD/AVL data with farebox data, a large bus operator can eliminate the problem of revenue that could not be assigned to a specific route because of [...]

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MBTA tests “Next Train” technology

March 11, 2009

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority announced “Next Train” technology to provide real-time arrival information for its commuter rail system.

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Instant bus info big improvement

February 6, 2009

The Erie (PA) Metropolitan Transit Authority is providing real-time information for buses serving the campus of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Students can track bus locations and arrival times on a monitor at the campus student center or access the information from EMTA’s website. From an editorial in the Erie Times-News: EMTA was wise to put [...]

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Ontario’s London Transit is keeping passengers in the know

October 30, 2008

“For more than a month, London Transit’s 192-bus fleet has been alerting its 75,000 passengers each weekday about upcoming stops with internal verbal displays and verbal announcements. In addition, outside audio announcements are made by the buses, aimed at passengers waiting at the more than 2,500 stops in the city.”  Link to full story in [...]

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Where’s GEORGE? Just ask Martha

September 10, 2008

Transit riders in Falls Church, Virginia, will soon be able to find out where their bus is with a phone call. The Northern Virginia Transportation Commission (NVTC) is sponsoring a pilot project to equip the GEORGE bus with low-cost Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) technology using cell phones. The two-route, four-bus system feeds two MetroRail stations [...]

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