Tuesday 13 August 2013

PIS for "Passenger Information System"

Sorry for my ignorance. I never knew our RapidKL public transport buses had been upgraded with an electronic passenger information system (and for some reason it’s shortened as PIS) as recently as April. The system displays at least the expected arrival time of the buses and are linked to the GPS installed in the vehicles. Excellent stuff. Our buses will finally be punctual, or if they are late, we will finally know when they will arrive. There is, however, almost always a but:

Certain terminals did not have the system in place, at others, the system was not functioning. This left the commuters with no choice but to wait, not knowing when the next bus to their destination would arrive.

via The Malaysian Insider.

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