The presentation of information at the Ji'an stops is superior to other displays we have seen.The system in Ji'an has now been working for more than a year, and, so far at least, continues to work well. The advertising functions continue to work, but the real-time functionality is either inaccurate or is not maintained. Many advertising-supported ITS systems at bus stops work for a short period of time, if at all, and then fail.The system has several characteristics that so far set it apart from similar advertising-supported real-time bus stop information initiatives, including: After ten years, the bus stop and advertising rights revert to bus company ownership.Īccording to Huaxing, installation costs 100,000 yuan (US$14,600) for each bus stop, and the annual operation and maintenance cost is 20,000 yuan (around $2,900) per stop. The bus company provides the real-time bus operation data, and Huaxing pays the full cost of bus stop construction, operation and maintenance over a ten-year period, in return for advertising rights over this period. The electronic displays are installed on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) contract between Huaxing and the muncipal Ji'an Bus Company. The electronic displays are installed under a BOT contract between Huaxing and the muncipal Ji'an Bus Company. The phase 1 installation is focused on higher demand bus stops with greater advertising revenue potential. The Ji'an bus company plans to have 160 of the stops installed as phase 1 of the project. The electronic stops in Ji'an were installed starting from May 2016, and are now installed in 80 stops around the city. Jiangxi Huaxing Information Industry Co., Ltd (Huaxing), incorporated in Jiangxi's capital city of Nanchang in 2007, has developed and installed the electronic displays at bus stops in 32 cities according to its website. Guangzhou has an impressive control centre with real-time bus location information, but provides no real-time information at bus stops. The information is easier and faster to read in the control centre layout, though the text-only diplay is more compact. The newly installed citywide bus stop information displays for passengers provides only a scrolling text display of the estimated minutes until the next bus arrives. The traffic control centre in Seoul, with photos above from 2016, provides real-time bus location in an easy-to-read visual format - to control centre personnel. Showing the location of all buses along a route is potentially far more useful to passengers than just knowing how far away the next bus is.Ī technology and advertising firm in Jiangxi Province has finally bridged this gap between control centre and public information display, now providing real-time information of the position of buses along routes in several cities, including Ji'an, where Far East Mobility is currently planning a high frequency bus network as part of an Asian Development Bank project. In the BRT systems documented at nearly all have impressive traffic control centres with real-time location of all buses along a particular route, but none of them provide that information to passengers. Guangzhou has a world class traffic control centre and BRT control centre, but provides no real time information at bus stops and only rudimentary real-time information at BRT stations. Seoul has a newly installed system which displays the number of minutes until the next bus arrives, and scrolls through coming bus arrivals, but does not show the position of several buses along the same route. Yet this information is hardly ever displayed to passengers waiting at bus stops. One of the many impressive displays shows the real-time location of buses along a route. For years, bus and BRT control centres have regaled visitors with displays showing impressive real-time information about many aspects of public transport and urban transport systems.
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