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The Mayor and the Minister of Public Works presented the Time Bus system, pioneer in Spain, to be installed in a total of 364 stops from the city of Cartagena and who will benefit seven million passengers per year
Avoid waiting at bus stops, and encourage public transport use is the goal of the new system this morning presented the Mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, and the Minister of Public Works, José Ballesta.
Time Bus system, developed the Public Transport in the Region of Murcia allows users of the buses in Cartagena can know the time of arrival at the stops by mobile phone or a voice system installed at the stops .
TimeBus formula includes three ways to find information: via bluetooth mobile phone through a text message (SMSBus) and by a voice announcement system (BidiBus), an audio button installed at the bus stop designed to adapt the service to blind and elderly.
The ceremony was also attended by the managing director of the Public Transport Authority, José Guillén, Councillor Area Infrastructure of the City of Cartagena, José Vicente Albaladejo, and Vice President of the Territorial Council in the Region of Murcia ONCE, José Ignacio Garrido.
This system will be installed in a total of 364 stops from the city and will benefit more than 6.7 million travelers a year in Cartagena, as explained by the Minister of Public Works, who also said that Cartagena is the third of the region, along with Molina de Segura Murcia and in installing this pioneering service in Spain.
In total there are over 2,300 bus stops throughout the Region of Murcia with these systems, which offers benefits to some 23 million passengers a year.
These are systems that provide real time information on waiting times for vehicles that need access to the bus stop, through a bluetooth system installed at each stop, using SMS, or through audio and video system, Bidi, explained the director.
MÃ S PUBLIC TRANSPORT USERS IN CARTAGENA
Encourage the use of public transport is the main objective of these actions framed within our own project, as has assured the mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, are a benefit not only users of the bus, but for the entire municipality.
Among other improvements, users have been reduced to 15 minutes maximum wait time at stops and also have provided 10 new buses, two for line 18 going to the Hospital of St. Lucia.
However, the mayor noted, the use of public transportation in Cartagena has increased by 9.5% last year.
The new system, namely BidiBus incorporating the announcement of the withdrawal period with a voice system, is also an improvement for the visually impaired accessibility to public transport.
As highlighted by the Vice President of ONCE in the region, José Ignacio Garrido, is a step forward so that visually impaired people can improve our personal autonomy accessing urban transport, and encouraged the City Council and Community to continue working on this line and remove barriers for people with disabilities integrate into society.
For older people, the system is activated via a button on the stop, and blind by a specific Ciberpass command and approved by the ONCE.
At every stop has been installed a push button actuating played the arrival times of the next bus.
This device is not active at night when no buses are running and allows you can adjust the volume.
STOP WITH THE TIME BUS SYSTEM INSTALLED:
The lines are already enjoying this system are: 1 - 2 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 14 - 24.
The stops on the already installed:
PASEO ALFONSO XIII (IES JIMENEZ DE LA ESPADA) PASEO ALFONSO XIII (BINGO) PASEO ALFONSO XIII (ONCE) PASEO ALFONSO XIII (DOOR ASSEMBLY) PASEO ALFONSO XIII (assemblies V) PASEO ALFONSO XIII (HOSPITAL ROSELL) BASTARRECHE ALAMEDA PLAZA SAN ANTON - QUEEN VICTORIA V SHIELD (STOP CORTE INGLES)
WAITING TIME FOR BLUETOOTH
For receiving information via Bluetooth: 1) The user activates the Bluetooth of your Terminal2) Find the device Time: bus3) Connects to 1234 he introduced the password when prompted by pantalla.4) Once paired begin receiving files with the times every 60 seconds.
Example: Line 14A Target 10 minutes Vistalegre
The user can also download a Java application if it is compatible with your mobile phone, available on the EFA website: www.entidadpublicadeltransporte.es and bluetooth panels themselves.
WAITING TIME FOR SMS (ALARM)
The SMS system: Bus permits, via SMS, to know the exact arrival time of the next vehicle without having to go to the stop, through the satellite positioning technology of the regional public transport fleet, a pioneering project Spain.
Thus, the user receives a message from anywhere in the confirmation SMS within seconds, and another with the advance indications pointed to the bus is coming to your stop, so you can move up and get there comfortably, without to be previously expecting.
Another service is already available to travelers is the application Bidi: Bus that, through imaging with mobile offers hours of passage of buses in real time, the line number and the arrival vehicles adapted for disabled guests.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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