Buses World News
In brief: Worldwide montly news & informations about Buses, Busmakers, Passengers' and the Transport Industry
PASSENGERS SERVICE * USA - Google Maps & Planners
* Google makes online planner for New York buses and subway
San Francisco,CAL,USA -The Business Times, by Steven E.F. Brown -September 24, 2008: -- Google Inc. founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page showed up at New York’s Grand Central Terminal with the state’s governor to tout a new trip planner for the city’s buses, trains and subways... (Photo by AP - Google and MTA officials announced the launching of Google MTA which will help straphangers find their way through transit system. Computer generated example of what Google Transit will look like to the user)* Google Maps adds N.J. trains, busesNJ, USA -Green Jersey -24 Sept 2008: -- Google Maps now provides mass-transit directions for PATH, as well as Metropolitan Transit Authority trains and New York metro area buses... Mass transit directions are offered alongside driving directions...Labels: passengers' services
Announcement Service * India - In MTC buses soon
A pleasant voice will soon greet passengers boarding Metropolitan Transport Corporation buses across the city
Chennai,India -The Hindu -12 Sept 2008: -- ... The MTC has introduced the announcement service on a trial basis in deluxe services on 21G route and it would be extended to other buses in phases... The recorded announcements, to be made on speakers fitted in the buses, would inform the passengers of the coming stops and their names when the bus halts. The service would be backed by Global Positioning System (GPS) technology... The vehicles would also have the respective route maps displayed... (Photo by V.GANESAN - MILESTONE: A spanking new MTC bus on 21G route with speakers and a route map)Labels: passengers' services
Bus service * USA - Eyes Corridor commuter run
Solon,IA,USA -The Gazette On Line, by Steve Gravelle -November 11. 2007: -- Mike Barnhart, director of Cedar Rapids' Neighborhood Transportation Service, wants to give Corridor commuters the chance this winter to leave the driving to a professional... More than 10,000 people make the I-380 commute each workday — 5,500 Johnson County residents go to and from Linn County, according to the 2000 census, with just more than 4,400 making the opposite run — a number that doubled over the previous decade... Along with rising fuel costs and traffic congestion, those numbers have fueled periodic interest on both ends of the Corridor in alternative transport... (Photo by Cliff Jette/The Gazette: Mike Johnson of Cedar Rapids rides a Neighborhood Transportation Service bus in June 2004. Bus service Director Mike Barnhart is seeking public input on his idea to offer rides between Cedar Rapids and Iowa City)Labels: passengers' services
San Francisco,CAL,USA -The Business Times, by Steven E.F. Brown -September 24, 2008: -- Google Inc. founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page showed up at New York’s Grand Central Terminal with the state’s governor to tout a new trip planner for the city’s buses, trains and subways... (Photo by AP - Google and MTA officials announced the launching of Google MTA which will help straphangers find their way through transit system. Computer generated example of what Google Transit will look like to the user)
