If JTA is going to continue to push for BRT, maybe, we could get an application that makes using the bus system here in Jacksonville that much easier/predictable like Miami has done ...
http://www.miamitodaynews.com/2013/10/23/bus-tracking-system-rolling/
QuoteMiami-Dade's Citizens' Independent Transportation Trust approved last week a $17.68 million proposed contract to install trackers on county buses.
QuoteThe $17,680,362 deal would also fund installation of up to 75 solar signs at bus shelters in priority areas and high-volume corridors. These signs would display arrival information for passengers' convenience.
$17 million for bus shelters and tracking? That is way too much, we could come up with a much better use for that kind of money.
I wonder how much UNF paid for their live tracking:
http://unf.transloc.com/
And they have a mobile app: http://unf.transloc.com/info/mobile
I have a feeling that most of the cost cited is for construction of bus stops and signs. Installing GPS trackers and creating an application to run on a smart phone does not cost $17m+
i always thought the buses already had GPS trackers, and that all we lacked was something to make that data available to the man on the street.
Dylan Phillips already built an app to track the buses:
Dylan is the gentleman who wrote the transportation real-time trolley app for the Riverside Avondale trolley. - From Councilman Jim Love, during the Avondale Trolley Event earlier this fall.
Let's not make this complicated!
Quote from: coredumped on October 30, 2013, 10:25:42 AM
$17 million for bus shelters and tracking? That is way too much, we could come up with a much better use for that kind of money.
I wonder how much UNF paid for their live tracking:
sorry, but I think the Miami-Dade bus system is SLIGHTLY larger than the one UNF has
Quote from: tufsu1 on October 31, 2013, 09:09:56 AM
sorry, but I think the Miami-Dade bus system is SLIGHTLY larger than the one UNF has
Never did I say the 2 should be equal. I was just curious how much UNF paid, then we could do some sort of scaled comparison.
Anyway, it seems that ad revenue from bus shelters should supplement some of this huge cost.
ad revenue from shelters do support the transit agency....remember that the average bus system only recovers $0.25 at the farebox on each $1 of cost