[PRCo] Re: Bilingual bus drivers

[Herb Brannon]

I guess that has been though of here. There is a "resync" control to be used in the event the system does get the stops out of order. The operator presses that key and the system resets and hopefully will correct itself. I have neither used it myself nor do I know of any other operator who had to use that feature.
Joshua Dunfield <joshuad at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:  
Herb Brannon wrote:
> Now, however, I have been put out
> of business. I mentioned to someone at the 'get together' that Cleveland RTA was very
> technologically advanced as far as public transit systems go. We now have a completely
> automated system using the global positioning satellite system to announce every single
> stop on any route in the transit system. It's really great and it works like a
> charm. Every stop is called just before the bus arrives at any given stop.

Cleveland got lucky -- the automatic system on the newer PAT buses would often get
off by one, so you'd hear "Murray Avenue" at Wightman, and "Shady Avenue" at
Murray. There was also a very funny problem: Forbes and Schenley was always
announced as "Schenley Drive, University of Pittsburgh", since that's arguably
the "main" stop for Pitt.

But the *other* intersection of Forbes and Schenley is on the opposite
side of Schenley Park from Pitt...

-j.




Herb Brannon