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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2015 12:38:11 GMT
As I was taking my daily commute with the 360, as I do every day. One day, last week, I boarded the WHY10 360 bus, which had the new iBus feature, a large board which shows a Google Maps screenshot of the route, drawn out in red, and the next 3 bus stops down the route. The Map is a moving map, whereas the bus is a red arrow following its route. When the bus got to a stop, say South Kensington Station, the board showed what other transport links there are at this stop, such as the Circle, District and Picadilly lines, and the routes of other buses from this stop. Unfortunately, I got off at Marlborough Centre College, but would have loved to stayed on and seen what else this innovation could show. I tried searching this thing up on the TFL website but nothing came up, strangely. If anyone knows of any details to this, please let me know! I love this new idea, the fact that the whole route is shown, and the next stops AND the links with other transport, which I felt were missing from the iBus announcements. The announcements had not changed, though. Thanks for any helpful information!
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Post by M1104 on Apr 15, 2015 12:47:04 GMT
I believe at least one bus on the 12 has/had the same feature, but with the route presently converting to LTs I am not sure where that bus has gone or if the hardware/software is still on it. I am guessing it's all still in its trial stage and from what you have mentioned its quite an excellent idea. The C1 would be another ideal route to trial the system on, it being quite a tourist route.
I wonder if such a feature would become available as a smart phone application. I imagine something similar must exist.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2015 13:21:17 GMT
Yes, agreed. The 15 may benefit...! I hope that it was successful because I want to see more of it! If I see it again, I'll snap a photo.
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Post by snoggle on Apr 15, 2015 14:52:00 GMT
I believe at least one bus on the 12 has/had the same feature, but with the route presently converting to LTs I am not sure where that bus has gone or if the hardware/software is still on it. I am guessing it's all still in its trial stage and from what you have mentioned its quite an excellent idea. The C1 would be another ideal route to trial the system on, it being quite a tourist route. I wonder if such a feature would become available as a smart phone application. I imagine something similar must exist. WHV1 is the route 12 bus that has the screen fitted plus wifi I believe. It was on display at the Year of the Bus Regent St event. As you say it's part of a trial of various bits of technology like the spare upper deck seat display on the 141 and soon on the 59. It is worth being a tiny bit pedantic and saying this is NOT a new IBus system because the underlying technology is the same. It is just a different display system that pulls together other bits of info that TfL already have (like tube and bus interchanges). The thing that would be really clever would be if the display showed the real time arrivals of other routes at stops / stations as the bus approached so people can see when a connecting service will arrive if they change at the next stop. Zurich already does this on its trams and it's excellent. Zurich runs its system so everything connects anyway - trolleybuses / buses arrive just before trams do and wait for passengers to get off the tram and on the bus before departing thus providing seamless interchange. TfL have actually decided to keep I-Bus broadly as it is and have renewed the contract with the supplier because the supplier won't surrender the source code to the system (quelle surprise! ). Therefore over the next few years TfL are going to develop a disaggregated I-Bus system design that will allow TfL to put all bits of the system out to tender in different packages thus breaking the monopoly supplier issue they currently have.
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