REVIEW OF TELEMATICS RELEVANT TO PUBLIC TRANSPORT

This report begins with a review of the market for public transportation in the U.K. It examines information systems for trip planning, portable information systems, operational management aids, bus priority systems, real-time passenger information and multimodal ticketing and integrated payment systems. The report reviews a wide selection of trials in the U.K. and Europe. The report then looks more specifically at the provision of information to meet user needs in the U.K.. Types of information, location, user groups, types of journey, and mode of transport are considered. It also examines current practice in the sources and dissemination of information to users.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication Date: 1998 Published By: Transport Research Laboratory, Crowthorne, Berkshire
• Corporate Authors:

  TRL

  Crowthorne House, Nine Mile Ride
  Wokingham, Berkshire  United Kingdom  RG40 3GA

  DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS

  ELAND HOUSE, BRESSENDEN PLACE
  LONDON,   United Kingdom  SW1E 5DU
• Authors:
  • WILKINSON, I J
• Publication Date: 1998

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: v, 84 p.
• Serial:
  • TRL report ; 342
  • Publisher: TRL

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Policy; Telematics
• Subject Areas: Policy;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00776918
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: PATH, ATRI
• Created Date: Nov 17 1999 12:00AM