WIP-PAT

Best Practice Visit Highlights

Paul Grayston

5 August 2004

Visit Locations

5 and 6 July 2004 Gothenburg, Sweden Tampere, Finland Helsinki, Finland

21 and 22 July 2004 Densitron Ferrograph Factory, Newcastle, UK Newcastle, UK Chorley, Lancashire, UK Manchester Airport, UK

Gothenburg

549 Buses 18 Regional Train lines 204 Trams 26 Ferries Fully integrated system Widespread real-time

information systems provided by GoTiC Project

Gothenburg

Good Fixed information everywhere

Gothenburg

Real Time information at most stops

Gothenburg

At Interchange points colour coded displays

Gothenburg

Rail and Bus station link together seamlessly

Gothenburg

Not everything is right though

Tampere

300 buses Tram/Train plans PARAS system for

communications between smartcard system, traffic signals and PT vehicles

“You never use enough time on specifications”

System designed to operate at -40°C

Tampere

Outdoor signs for a group of stops

Tampere

Customer profiling from Smartcard system

Web and mobile services part of the system

Helsinki - Tikkurilla

Outdoor real time departure sign