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New, Improved: Where the H- Is My Bus? Locator

MTA Taps OpenPlans to Help Bring Bus Data to Cell Phones

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

The MTA is developing a way to let people know where their bus is—if not when it will arrive—that’s supposed to save the authority tens of millions of dollars.

This approach will send the information directly to riders’ mobile phones. And it’s cheaper to implement because it will piggy back on technology that’s being installed for another initiative, the transition from magnetic-striped MetroCards to computer chip-enabled “smart cards.”  For more on this story, go to TransportationNation.org

 

 

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