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 14, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 application of internet and > GPS technology: easy and cheap to implement and useful to the customers. I > expect the bus company has been tracking its drivers for a long time, > although I was surprised to find the other day that a local FedEx truck was > not equipped with a GPS map. > > Many technical problems can be solved more easily than people realize. Often > the hardest part is to convince people to try something new. > > - Jed >
