XcelsiorBoii4888 Posted November 26, 2016 Share #26 Posted November 26, 2016 Well here goes 4253 on the S79. Was only displaying advertisements, no announcements or nothing. https://youtu.be/Ek-jHNPUJCA Sent from my SM-N910P using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTSTdrive Posted November 27, 2016 Author Share #27 Posted November 27, 2016 Well here goes 4253 on the S79. Was only displaying advertisements, no announcements or nothing. https://youtu.be/Ek-jHNPUJCA Sent from my SM-N910P using Tapatalk Yep these would work better than having back to back screens mounted solely on the front. Also 7321 has the screens. No announcements yet. Edit: At the rate the digital screens program is going, we might start seeing 'MTA Bus Operations: Digital Screens' in the main topic forum soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DetSMART45 Posted November 27, 2016 Share #28 Posted November 27, 2016 Good to see they're playing ads, but I didn't see anything in the official documents about how much the MTA is actually getting from the three guinea pigs in this. Last I saw in the "Board" reports was that advertising dollars are running behind projections, and most of those come from Outfront placings. One would think that the MTA would require all of the "official" programming (stop displays, transfers, pictogram PSAs) be operational upon installation and ads be inserted once fully operational. And that buses installed would be completely operational before hitting revenue service. But I guess, as always, half-assed is somehow better than no-assed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Around the Horn Posted November 27, 2016 Share #29 Posted November 27, 2016 Good to see they're playing ads, but I didn't see anything in the official documents about how much the MTA is actually getting from the three guinea pigs in this. Last I saw in the "Board" reports was that advertising dollars are running behind projections, and most of those come from Outfront placings. One would think that the MTA would require all of the "official" programming (stop displays, transfers, pictogram PSAs) be operational upon installation and ads be inserted once fully operational. And that buses installed would be completely operational before hitting revenue service. But I guess, as always, half-assed is somehow better than no-assed. I think they are still working on programming the announcements and getting out the kinks, first by playing the ads and then the announcements. Also the ones on the S79 units were literally just installed this week. I think once we get past these test beds, the process will be much quicker and instantaneous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DetSMART45 Posted November 27, 2016 Share #30 Posted November 27, 2016 I think they are still working on programming the announcements and getting out the kinks, first by playing the ads and then the announcements. Also the ones on the S79 units were literally just installed this week. I think once we get past these test beds, the process will be much quicker and instantaneous. I would think that the companies involving themselves in this whole venture should be somewhat competent in programming necessary to get it operational before they even opted to get into the running. The primary objective, at least the way I understand it, was to have MTA customer information available. If it were just to amuse customers on the long journeys, then Outfront could have done something like this years ago, and had another revenue-sharing opportunity to feed the coffers with. I guess it is a bit more developed since the MTA didn't even venture into having Clever voice announcements/LED stop displays being incorporated already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zachary Transit Posted December 1, 2016 Share #31 Posted December 1, 2016 Actually the M34/A SBS (and the preceding M34/16) demoed the Clever Devices smart bus system similar to the one NJT and NICE uses at around 2009-2010 Interesting, i wonder why I've never heard about that before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTSTdrive Posted December 2, 2016 Author Share #32 Posted December 2, 2016 Interesting, i wonder why I've never heard about that before.This was at the same time the MTA was testing out BusTime with Clever as the vendor and that wound up being more greenlit than Clever's voice announcements system and countdown clocks Here's that system in action on the M34 Select back in 2011. Notice Sara Weaver (same voice of NJT and NICE) as the VO in comparison to the current computerized voice being used (for now...I hope): https://youtube.com/watch?v=V6A91w4TYiY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTSTdrive Posted December 14, 2016 Author Share #33 Posted December 14, 2016 Seems the expansion of the info screens pilot has started. Another forum member has confirmed the Casey Stengel LFSAs assigned to the Q44 SBS are starting to get the Vianova screens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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