GPS SYSTEM TO KEEP BUSES ON TRACK.Byline: Helen Helen, in Greek mythology, the most beautiful of women; daughter of Leda and Zeus, and sister of Castor and Pollux and Clytemnestra. While still a young girl Helen was abducted to Attica by Theseus and Polydeuces, but Castor and Pollux rescued her. Gao Staff Writer GLENDALE Glendale. 1 City (1990 pop. 148,134), Maricopa co., S central Ariz., adjacent to Phoenix; inc. 1910. It is located in a rich agricultural region irrigated by the Salt River project. Glendale has become one of the fastest-growing U.S. - Like many commuters in the city, Lidia Q. Brenes Brenes is a city located in the province of Seville, Spain. According to the 2005 census (INE), the city has a population of 11412 inhabitants. External links
``No matter what your schedule says, the buses are always a little early or a little late,'' complained Brenes, 66, as she waited Monday Monday: see week. for a bus on Brand Boulevard. To ease passengers' frustration, the city will activate an experimental high-tech high-tech also hi-tech adj. Informal Of, relating to, or resembling high technology. high-tech Adjective same as hi-tech Adj. 1. system Wednesday Wednesday: see week. that will notify commuters on two busy routes when the next bus will arrive at their stop. With the help of NextBus Information Systems Inc., the city has installed global positioning satellite receivers to track the movements of the Beeline bee·line n. A direct, straight course. intr.v. bee·lined, bee·lin·ing, bee·lines To move swiftly in a direct, straight course. buses that serve Routes 1 and 2, which travel along Central Avenue and Brand to the Transportation Center. The receivers beam the information to a NextBus information center, which provides real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. arrival predictions based on the tracking data. Starting Wednesday, the information will be available online at www.GlendaleBeeline.com; on outdoor street signs along Brand between Harvard Street and Broadway; and via cell phones and pagers. ``We are 95 percent accurate, plus or minus one minute,'' said Aidan Smith, NextBus' marketing and communications manager. ``(We've) got it figured out pretty well.'' Mark Maloney, transportation and parking services supervisor for Glendale, said providing real-time arrival predictions is just one component of a bigger project to improve public transit in the city. By this summer, city officials hope to have the traffic signal system and the global positioning satellite system connected, so a green light can be accelerated or extended to enable a bus to arrive on time. Funded by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority at a cost of $1.1 million, the project is intended as a demonstration experiment for the region, Maloney said. If the experiment is successful, Maloney said, the city will extend the technology citywide. In Glendale, about 2.2 million people ride the bus annually. Routes 1 and 2 are used by about 6,000 people a day. ``(The technology) will definitely give some people who haven't tried (public transit) before a reason to try it,'' said Maloney. ``They can pull the information up on the Web site before going out.'' Glendale city officials will hold a demonstration of the new bus technology at 11 a.m. Wednesday at The Glendale Marketplace, 106-146 S. Brand Blvd. CAPTION(S): box Box: GPS satellites |
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