East New York Posted April 22, 2011 Share #1 Posted April 22, 2011 Real Time Bus Tracking is coming to MTAB next! The system being used in routes B63, M16, and M34, will make its debut on an MTA Bus Co. route by 2012. The MTA plans to eventually roll the system out on all New York City Buses. I'm being told College Point and Spring Creek depots will be among the first to integrate the service. http://www.mta.info/capitaldashboard/10_14/CapitalDashBoard7.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cait Sith Posted April 22, 2011 Share #2 Posted April 22, 2011 Real Time Bus Tracking is coming to MTAB next! The system being used in routes B63, M16, and M34, will make its debut on an MTA Bus Co. route by 2012. The MTA plans to eventually roll the system out on all New York City Buses. I'm being told College Point and Spring Creek depots will be among the first to integrate the service. Oh god, CP routes for the most part are very frequent, have that thing debut on JFK routes damnit, especially the Q8 and Q41! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FamousNYLover Posted April 22, 2011 Share #3 Posted April 22, 2011 Other buses that should have tracking are: LGA Depots: Q18, Q23, Q33 ,Q39, Q47, Q49, Q53, Q67, Q69, Q101, Q102, Q103, Q104. JFK Depots: Q10, Q11, Q21. Far Rockaway Depot: Q22, Q35 College Point: Q19, Q50, Q66. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amtrak7 Posted April 22, 2011 Share #4 Posted April 22, 2011 SI local and express will have them by the end of the year, so looks like MTA Bus is next! Don't forget the B63 technology is different than the 34th Street one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FamousNYLover Posted April 22, 2011 Share #5 Posted April 22, 2011 Speaking of real time bus info, have anyone notice white paper with barcode code with bus stop # from BusCrowd? I think BusCrowd is taking over real time in Manhattan Buses!! Check this site. http://buscrowd.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted April 22, 2011 Share #6 Posted April 22, 2011 SI local and express will have them by the end of the year, so looks like MTA Bus is next! Don't forget the B63 technology is different than the 34th Street one. Believe me it can't come fast enough!! Damn X1 and X10 especially. :mad: My question is what if the bus is MIA, which happens a lot on the X10? Will it just show you where the next bus is or when it is coming or what??? :confused: Real Time Bus Tracking is coming to MTAB next! The system being used in routes B63, M16, and M34, will make its debut on an MTA Bus Co. route by 2012. The MTA plans to eventually roll the system out on all New York City Buses. I'm being told College Point and Spring Creek depots will be among the first to integrate the service. http://www.mta.info/capitaldashboard/10_14/CapitalDashBoard7.html Is the doing anything to promote the use of the service on the existing lines?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciboii22 Posted April 22, 2011 Share #7 Posted April 22, 2011 Oh Boy ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amtrak7 Posted April 22, 2011 Share #8 Posted April 22, 2011 My question is what if the bus is MIA, which happens a lot on the X10? Will it just show you where the next bus is or when it is coming or what??? :confused: It will give you the location of every bus. It's by GPS, not just a feed of the schedule. If a bus runs ahead of its leader, it'll show that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted April 22, 2011 Share #9 Posted April 22, 2011 It will give you the location of every bus. It's by GPS, not just a feed of the schedule. If a bus runs ahead of its leader, it'll show that. Nice!! Yeah tonight 5th Avenue was horrible with the damn tourists. Yellow cabs everywhere and while the X12 wasn't too late apparently the one before it must've been really late because we caught up to it and they're supposed to be a good 20 minutes apart. This is very good to know because often times if a bus like the X10 goes MIA, you know the next one will probably be packed, but you get on anyway because who knows if the next one will come. So you get on and it's crowded and you're pissed naturally having waited so long, but then to have to be packed in like a sardine just adds salt to the womb, so this will work perfect for me. :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
East New York Posted April 22, 2011 Author Share #10 Posted April 22, 2011 Believe me it can't come fast enough!! Damn X1 and X10 especially. :mad: My question is what if the bus is MIA, which happens a lot on the X10? Will it just show you where the next bus is or when it is coming or what??? :confused: Is the doing anything to promote the use of the service on the existing lines?? The service tells you what time the next bus is coming in real time. It doesn't tell you if the next bus is supposed to be the one scheduled at the time or not. As far as advertising, the only places I have seen info on the service are some buses, and on the MTA homepage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted April 22, 2011 Share #11 Posted April 22, 2011 The service tells you what time the next bus is coming in real time. It doesn't tell you if the next bus is supposed to be the one scheduled at the time or not. As far as advertising, the only places I have seen info on the service are some buses, and on the MTA homepage. It would be clear that if two X10s were running 5-10 minutes apart when they're scheduled say 20 minutes apart that one was late. Doesn't matter to me which one. What's important to me is that I miss the crush loaded bus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChickenPotPie Posted April 23, 2011 Share #12 Posted April 23, 2011 About time! This isn't new technology. And why weren't the Novabus artics on the SBS routes delivered with GPS and automated stop announcement technology? If they are heralded as the premier bus routes of the MTA, then shouldn't they be treated as such? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infamous85 Posted April 23, 2011 Share #13 Posted April 23, 2011 If only they had this for Jamaica Depot, at least they're expanding it though. The Q65 could certainly use this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
East New York Posted April 23, 2011 Author Share #14 Posted April 23, 2011 If only they had this for Jamaica Depot, at least they're expanding it though. The Q65 could certainly use this. The whole system is supposed to have it eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princelex Posted April 26, 2011 Share #15 Posted April 26, 2011 They should have that for ECH for the Bx23 since they are going to have this for CP buses and the Q50 rolls in the same areas as the Bx23 in the Bronx but that's me and my selfish wants lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q43LTD Posted April 26, 2011 Share #16 Posted April 26, 2011 Baisley Park should be the first to try this program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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