Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Real time bus schedule

2009-04-16 Thread Terry Blanton
Yeah, we have a system here at MARTA. It's not public however. The infrastructure of 2-way radios for position reporting also supports police, operations and maintenance communications with push-to-talk; but, it cost many millions using 800 MHz trunked radios. I contend that 3G cellular using

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Real time bus schedule

2009-04-15 Thread OrionWorks
From Jed: My daughter who lives in Boston sent me this link to a local bus company that shows where its buses are in real time, on the map: http://masco.transloc.com/ This is the kind of thing that could have been done years ago but no one thought to do it. In retrospect it is an obvious

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Real time bus schedule

2009-04-15 Thread OrionWorks
From Jed: My daughter who lives in Boston sent me this link to a local bus company that shows where its buses are in real time, on the map: http://masco.transloc.com/ This is the kind of thing that could have been done years ago but no one thought to do it. In retrospect it is an obvious

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Real time bus schedule

2009-04-15 Thread leaking pen
I know the bus system here in phoenix has been equipped with gps for a while. one of the uses is an automated, you are approaching X street announcement over the pa system that tags when you reach certain spots. THEY have the live tracking, but they havent given it publicly. sigh. On Tue, Apr

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Real time bus schedule

2009-04-15 Thread Terry Blanton
Maybe they should use google also like Boston. Terry On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:32 PM, OrionWorks svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: From Jed: My daughter who lives in Boston sent me this link to a local bus company that shows where its buses are in real time, on the map:

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Real time bus schedule

2009-04-15 Thread OrionWorks
From Terry: Maybe they should use google also like Boston. I talked to one of our techies. There may be financial issues. Google's version is certainly better presented, but in the longer run it may turn out not to be as cheap to implement or maintain. I noticed Madison's version appears to

[Vo]:OFF TOPIC Real time bus schedule

2009-04-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
My daughter who lives in Boston sent me this link to a local bus company that shows where its buses are in real time, on the map: http://masco.transloc.com/http://masco.transloc.com/ This is the kind of thing that could have been done years ago but no one thought to do it. In retrospect it is