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February 5, 2004
when's my bus arriving? fluidtime public transport app
the fluidtime public transport torino, a visual representation of arrival times of buses in Torino, Italy.
"Fluidtime supports flexible planning by providing people with personalised, accurate time-based information directly from the real-time databases of the services they are seeking."
yury and i had talked about the feasibility of doing real data version of this kinda app with the subway system here in nyc. install rfid tags on the lead car of each train, install ez-pass readers every 500 feet or so to capture positioning data that would be relayed to monitors in each station. but according to mr. gitman, it'd be almost impossible. he's spoken to folks in it over at the mta. it turns out that every new technology has a seven year evaluation period before it can be considered for implementation in the system. that means that most likely, something smaller, faster, better would be impossible to use once the testing phase was complete. what a pain in the ass. perhaps we need to put a test system into play anyway, get critical mass in support of such a system just to prove our point. found at nosenseofplace
Posted by yatta at February 5, 2004 1:59 PM
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