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Expanding And it doesn’t stop there. Currently, as well as the expansion of the real-time information system, Centro and its partners are using the data to provide more customer information than ever before. Through its communication partners, it
provides an SMS service from each stop, a handheld mobile internet service and now an iPhone app as well. Before the end of 2012, Centro intends to introduce what it describes as its ‘NetNav’ – a revolutionary concept that will allow people to type their start and end destinations and let the search engine do the rest. This happens in cars all the time, so why not the buses and trains?
Real-Time Passenger Information screens at Pool Meadow Bus Station, Coventry.
themselves and their electrical systems meant we had to install additional transistors on the vehicles to make sure the real-time information systems could work.
But it is a programme that has borne fruit. In
2009 we won the RTIG-INFORM Innovation Award for the Coventry’s PrimeLines initiative, as well as the UK bus award for the same system.
Pete Bond is Transport Partnerships Manager Bus for Centro and one of his key roles is liaising with bus operators on real-time information. He has been at Centro since 2006. Previously he was at National
Express West Midlands (NXWM) where his role was to install RTI equipment on its buses. Prior to joining NXWM, he was an export manager in Derby.
FOCON launches the PIS / CIS platform of the future
FOCON proudly launch our latest PIS / CIS platform built by use of “customer’s voice”. With help from key industry knowledgeable people being passengers, train builders, operators and consultancy companies we have achieved an in-depth insight in current and future needs within rolling stock and built our newest CIS / CIS generation around it. The result is a market leading platform,
IMAGINE a PIS / CIS systems that is built for the future and build to last by a strong, also customizable, aftersales
concept InMotion that gives optimum up-time and life time cost, this by maximizing availability of spares and service and proven products with high reliability. FOCON stands today as a market leading
customizable but yet built on proven modules which offer an optimum and effective solutions today but also in the future as it may be built on as needs changes. The new IMAGINE platform is not a
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solutions provider which core capabilities are integrated solutions consisting of total project management, software programming and software friendly hardware. Our new platforms are IP based and includes among others options as infotainment, CCTV, Disruting messaging etc. As member of the Luminator technology group, IRIS and ISO certified we offer proven
processes and global presence. We offer an excellent choice for those
seeking solutions for the future, solutions that may be built on going forward and which may be run with a highly competitive level on life time cost. Contact us to learn more, Anna Marie Damgaard Kristensen, Sales and Program Director, FOCON.
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