MANGALURU: All KSRTC buses working from Mangaluru will have GPS-based machine to announce the names of all bus stops on the routes. This facility will be presented quickly.
The Mangaluru depot of KSRTC is all set to introduce 'GPS Based Next Stop Announcement System' in all the buses to alert passengers just like Metro products and services.
The machine, which will be made active in 100 KSRTC buses of Mangaluru depot in the first section, will be other from the service presented in Bengaluru and Mysuru. The GPS-based Next Stop Announcement System will observe the bus stops enroute in response to the latitude and longitude of the positioning. Mangaluru depot has already presented the machine in 10 buses on Mangaluru-Kasaragod course on a pilot foundation thru an outsourced company that will take care of it with the advertisement earnings. Very quickly, the next forestall announcement machine will be presented in 100 buses that function from Mangaluru depot, mentioned M B Jaishanth Kumar, divisional traffic officer of KSRTC.
"For the first time, a GPS based next stop announcement system is being introduced in KSRTC. We have introduced the system on 10 buses plying on Mangaluru-Kasaragod route on pilot basis. The system is working successfully on the route. The GPS instrument attached to the system will read the latitude and longitude of the location and make announcement seconds before the bus reaches a bus stop. A proposal to introduce the system in 100 buses has been approved by the government. The proposal was pending since the election code of conduct was in force. The system introduced in buses of Bengaluru and Mangaluru are different from ours. Buses in Mangaluru will also play music and it will have automatic volume control. The volume of the music will increase automatically when the speed of the bus increases," he mentioned.
The Mangaluru depot of KSRTC is all set to introduce 'GPS Based Next Stop Announcement System' in all the buses to alert passengers just like Metro products and services.
The machine, which will be made active in 100 KSRTC buses of Mangaluru depot in the first section, will be other from the service presented in Bengaluru and Mysuru. The GPS-based Next Stop Announcement System will observe the bus stops enroute in response to the latitude and longitude of the positioning. Mangaluru depot has already presented the machine in 10 buses on Mangaluru-Kasaragod course on a pilot foundation thru an outsourced company that will take care of it with the advertisement earnings. Very quickly, the next forestall announcement machine will be presented in 100 buses that function from Mangaluru depot, mentioned M B Jaishanth Kumar, divisional traffic officer of KSRTC.
"For the first time, a GPS based next stop announcement system is being introduced in KSRTC. We have introduced the system on 10 buses plying on Mangaluru-Kasaragod route on pilot basis. The system is working successfully on the route. The GPS instrument attached to the system will read the latitude and longitude of the location and make announcement seconds before the bus reaches a bus stop. A proposal to introduce the system in 100 buses has been approved by the government. The proposal was pending since the election code of conduct was in force. The system introduced in buses of Bengaluru and Mangaluru are different from ours. Buses in Mangaluru will also play music and it will have automatic volume control. The volume of the music will increase automatically when the speed of the bus increases," he mentioned.
GPS-based announcement in 100 KSRTC buses soon
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