14 REAL-TIME PASSENGER INFORMATION SUPPLEMENT
ADVERTORIAL
MobiGuider from Prodata Mobility Systems: the gateway to modern Real-Time Passenger Information
One key factor in ‘getting people on the bus’ is a full-fledged Real-Time Passenger Information (RTPI) solution that enhances the comfort level and attraction of using Public Transport (PT).
includes tracking, schedule-, payment, driver and passenger data MobiGuider collects information coming
from the PT-vehicles in its central ITS system, combines it with local ITS and AFC information and transfers it to internal and external systems where it is prepared for optimized presentation on the different RTPI media including PCs and Smartphones. Being an integrated and open platform, MobiGuider can perform this task so efficiently that critical, real-time information can be provided to passengers.
Modern RTPI is a reality with MobiGuider in the Netherlands Prodata Mobility Systems installed such a future- proof MobiGuider solution in the Netherlands in cities like Amsterdam, Eindhoven and Maastricht, with a total of over 2,700 buses and trains.
All passenger information is prepared by
The ultimate RTPI system will have to provide detailed information about door-to-door journeys using all of the available PT modes (train, tram, bus, etc.). It will offer instant and accurate guidance in a user-friendly way on mobile systems such as a Smartphone. The information will have to include easy and instant payment capabilities, itinerary data with guidance, predicted time schedules at the foreseen time of travel, real-time updates during the travel, and alternatives for the fastest, cheapest or easiest routes; much like the features and services available on the most sophisticated GPS systems in cars today. Obviously, such PT solutions are complex
and have to integrate all of the functions related to payment, journey selection and guidance, and passenger feedback. They will also have to
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be high performance, flexible and open systems that can be readily adapted to evolving needs and technologies. Therefore, Prodata Mobility Systems
developed ‘MobiGuider’, a flexible end-to-end solution that is a fully open system integrating AFC, ITS and RTPI functionality. MobiGuider_ITS is the Intelligent Transport
System module that provides vehicle tracking and tracing, driver guidance,
itinerary
information and dispatching requirements. MobiGuider_AFC handles all of the
Automated Fare Collection issues on buses or at counters and in the central systems. MobiGuider_RTPI incorporates all the
collecting, interpreting, preparing and presenting of passenger information on displays and other external systems. This information
MobiGuider and sent to the different displays on the vehicles and to a governmental service (GOOVI) to support external applications such as sophisticated web applications accessible by PC and Smartphone. Prodata Mobility Systems’ MobiGuider is the ideal platform enabling user-friendly applications, such as on Smartphones to guide passengers through the labyrinth of multi- modal PT-services making door-to-door journeys obvious and easy.
Prodata Mobility Systems
Leuvensesteenweg 540 Bus 3 B-1930 Zaventem, Belgium
Tel: +32 2 306 10 11 Fax : +32 2 306 10 99 Email:
info@prodatamobility.com Web:
www.prodatamobility.com
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