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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2009 19:11:06 GMT
Yes but was that long term diversion rather than a 2-3 hour central london diversion True. I think it may be techically possible, but as to whether it would be regarded as worthwhile, I doubt it. Perhaps one of our drivers could make a more informed comment on this? yes going back to the point and also there might be alot of routes doing the same diversion so could become more difficult
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Post by Madstuntman on Jul 12, 2009 22:38:01 GMT
There is a long term diversion (6 months) in Sidcup going on at them moment and the new route has been programmed into the iBus complete with stop names and announcements for the temp stops. (well it works on the 286, I was following a 229 along the diversion a few days ago and it was displaying a * on the ibus screen however this may have been a fault with an individual bus)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2009 22:49:15 GMT
Long term diversions can be programmed in, usually with a message taht the bus is on diversion played automatically followed by all stops being announced. This is possibly in theory for short term diversions, however the controllers will usually be too busy to do this and the screen will simply show "*" until it regains normal route.
The system is based on a computer on the bus with each stop name stored as a soundfile. The GPS system tracks the vehicles location and when it gets within the distance of a stop it will play the file from the computer. A rare error is that the wrong file is played, so you get some funny ones playing like "280, Drinking alcohol..., Belmont". Updates to the system like new routings and new sound files are added automatically to buses via a wifi connection at the garage, or can be updated by Centrecomm over the GPS
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Post by Steve09 on Jul 12, 2009 22:57:50 GMT
There is a long term diversion (6 months) in Sidcup going on at them moment and the new route has been programmed into the iBus complete with stop names and announcements for the temp stops. (well it works on the 286, I was following a 229 along the diversion a few days ago and it was displaying a * on the ibus screen however this may have been a fault with an individual bus) Yeah , well I know that the iBus anouncements down Hatherley Road work perfectly for the 51, 269. I suppose it was probably just a fault with the iBus on that bus
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Post by lc1 on Jul 13, 2009 17:22:33 GMT
There is a long term diversion (6 months) in Sidcup going on at them moment and the new route has been programmed into the iBus complete with stop names and announcements for the temp stops. (well it works on the 286, I was following a 229 along the diversion a few days ago and it was displaying a * on the ibus screen however this may have been a fault with an individual bus) Was working on my 229 and N21 last week, although that is the first time it HAS worked although I had only just returned from Holiday so cannot say when they started working, I suppose it is possible the bus you was following had been on nights (we seem to get the same bus regularly because theres only a few that are decent) and therefore hadn't recieved the updates.
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