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INIT Customer won National Transport Award for Technology
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Karlsruhe, July 2004
After winning the London Transport Award for Technology in March 2004, METROLINE has now also won the National Transport Award for Technology for the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) provided by INIT.
The Technology Award was presented to METROLINE, a London bus operator, in recognition of their satellite positioning system, called iRIS (Intelligent Route Information System). METROLINE impressed the jury because their new technology has been used in a way that has successfully improved the performance of London bus services.
Following an initial 28 bus pilot, iRIS has been rolled out to two more garages, incorporating 247 buses which operate across 13 routes in North West London.
The iRIS system is provided by INIT, a Germany-based worldwide leader in ITS Systems, and allows METROLINE to manage the flow of buses on a route, so that they arrive at bus stops at regular intervals – not all at the same time! This reduces Excess Waiting Time for passengers dramatically and therefore improves their satisfaction with the bus service.
Intelligent technology provided by INIT
In addition to the proven MOBILE-CAD/AVL fleet management system, the heart of iRIS is the on-board computer, COPILOT. This computer calculates the location and the current schedule situation and informs the central control system via GPRS whether the vehicle exceeds defined thresholds in the schedule. The MOBILE-CAD/AVL is able to control the intervals of all buses on an entire route automatically by giving instructions to the vehicle operator. Therefore, even in dense traffic, bunching of buses will be avoided in the future.
Steve McAleavy, Managing Director of Metroline says, “I am delighted that Metroline have won this award, recognising our continued investment in technology which enables us to provide improved service reliability to our customers. The software supplied by INIT has proved to be very reliable and capable of handling the transition from a 28 bus pilot to a 247 bus rollout”.
Dr. Gottfried Greschner, the CEO of init AG, commented as follows: “Congratulations to METROLINE! Being already proud of having METROLINE as satisfied customer, we are even more happy that METROLINE has now received the second award for the iRIS project. iRIS is a very good example of how Telematics technology can really improve transit services."
For more information please contact:
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Andrea Mohr
INIT GmbH
Kaeppelestrasse 6
76131 Karlsruhe - Germany
Tel: +49.721.6100.113
E-Mail: amohr@init-ka.de
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