European cities are increasingly implementing
the use of real-time passenger information systems, most of them based on urban
applications of Global Positioning Satellite technology. Some innovative recent
applications have been reported from France, where pagers and the Internet are being used
to convey next bus departure information to waiting passengers.
In the Infobus project now undergoing testing
in the French cityof Metz, a pager available from the JC Decaux company provides the
estimated real-time arrival of the next five buses programmed to the user's closest bus
stop.
In Mulhouse, France, an Internet web page
mainteained by TRAM (the appropriate acronym for the Mulhouse transit authority) advises
users of scheduled bus arrivals at 26 schools and public institutions.
Lille and Lyon, also in France, have followed
suit, using the Bustop software developed by Aquitaine.
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