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Article Excerpt
If you keep your public informed, it makes everybody's job easier. That's a sentiment echoed by the various companies that provide solutions to help get information out to your riders; the information riders need, when they need it and where they need it.
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Jennille Logan, account manager with ACS says, "Agencies provide real-time information to their riders, which helps increase new riders, retain riders and reduce the anxiety for riders." She adds, "If local, commuter and visiting riders feel comfortable utilizing a system and find it time-effective, reliable and quicker than using single-person vehicles, it will not only increase riders, but assist in reducing heavy traffic on major roadways.
The ACS-TMS SmartTraveler Plus product suite consists of multiple ways for riders to access real-time information," says Logan. "It is a Web product that allows agencies to customize a Web page for their riders. Riders can plan a trip, be notified through email or text message of their vehicle arrival times, see important transit messages and can search for their bus or bus stop."
Avail Technologies works primarily with small to mid-sized companies, says Marketing Manager Troy Whitesel. And he says it's even more critical for them to have good information for the riders. If the bus only comes to the stop once every hour, riders don't want to be left standing outside in the cold or wet weather.
When riders see from their desk in the office that the bus is going to be 15 minutes fate, that's 15 more minutes to work, or to...
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