Maryland buses using Vancouver technology
If you ever hop on a bus in Baltimore, you may be surprised to find out that there’s a Vancouver connection to the public transit system you’re on.
Burnaby’s WebTech Wireless Inc., a provider of vehicle fleet location-based services and telematics technology, announced a $770,000 three-year Real Time Passenger Information System (RTPIS) contract with Central Maryland Regional Transit (CMRT) on Tuesday. WebTech will be installing and servicing their RTPIS system, NextBus, on 82 buses operating in the Baltimore-Washington corridor.
NextBus will provide CMRT with a set of hardware and services which include Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) Tracker suites, bus operator covert alarm units, automatic passenger counting systems, telephone Interactive Voice Response (IVR) System and SMS Text Messaging Systems, geo-fencing and automatic alerts and schedule adherence feedback.
NextBus will also process data obtained from the CMRT fleet to provide real-time information on arrival times to users, instead of the often-incorrect posted schedule times. Bus arrival information will be available to passengers through telephone IVR System and SMS Text Messaging System at over 1,000 bus stops, and the nextbus.com website.
NextBus is already being used in San Francisco and Amador County, California. For more information about WebTech, click here.
