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* USA - Chicago police will soon monitor "bus cams"
Chicago,Ill,USA -The Chicago Tribune, by Jon Van -21 June 2007: -- Chicago police in patrol cars soon will be able to peer inside nearby city buses by electronically tapping into onboard video cameras, the Chicago Transit Authority's vice president for technology said Wednesday... Live views from inside buses eventually will be available to the city's public safety dispatchers, said John Flynn, who described transit information technology upgrades at the NXTcomm trade show at McCormick Place...
* UK - Talking Bus Stops Go Live in Scotland
Scotland,UK -axistive, by Dennis van der Heijden -Jun 21, 2007: -- Trials of a revolutionary new system providing audio information on bus schedules at the bus stops have gone live in Scotland... The three-month pilot will allow vision-impaired bus passengers to listen to information from the Intelligent Bus Information System. The units have been installed at 12 bus stops across the Strathclyde region... Bus times are up dated from the headquarters of Strathclyde Passenger Transport and sent to units using wireless technology - General Pocket Radio Service (GPRS) - and mobile phone technology from UK transport information provider Tandata. It is the first time for GPRS technology to be used in this way. Although audio information can be accessed on the next five buses, complete bus timetables are available on-screen only for sighted passengers...
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