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Keeping your riders connected.

Publication: Mass Transit
Publication Date: 01-MAR-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Keeping your riders connected.(Maintenance Matters)

Article Excerpt
About a year and a half ago, Santa Cruz Metro first installed Wi-Fi on some of its buses. A particular corridor it runs is between Santa Cruz and San Jose. "We have a high degree of commuter traffic on that corridor," says General Manager Les White. "We knew that there were a lot of people in those vehicles, which are high-backed vehicles with trays that drop down and pull-back seats, that use laptops and would be able to access Wi-Fi.

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"We went through an RFP process, an evaluation process to select a system," White explains. The system installed, previously available from Parvus, is now an offering from its sister subsidiary, Eurotech....

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