During Monday's HART Major
Projects & Legislative Committee meeting, HART unveiled a real-time
passenger pilot project underway between HART and USF's Center for Urban
Transportation Research (CUTR). The pilot is testing One Bus Away,
transportation technology that tells users where their bus is and how much time
until the next one departs. Similar technology is currently offered by PSTA to its customers.
HART was chosen for this pilot
because of its property size, physical proximity to CUTR, as well as previous
partnerships that already involved the use of HART data.
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| One Bus Away provides Real-time info |
Over the next year, the pilot
will focus on one or two major routes, and target its potential use for web,
Droid Smartphones, and basic cell phones. The pilot will research the
feasibility of deploying this technology to the entire HART network, including
via text messages and integrating it with the current HART Interactive Voice
Response system.
HART currently makes its data of scheduled times
available for third-party application developers; and RouteShout, TransitTimes
and Mapnificent use this data to provide customers with different online and smartphone applications.
Stay tuned for more updates
about this pilot project!
Next HART Board Meeting
- July 16: Finance, Governance & Administration Committee, then Regular Board
Wow. That's a very useful information. Thanks for sharing.
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