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PIMUS, operating in the Calle de la Torre [stop 175].

Tower Street becomes the test of future bus stops . This morning, commuters who usually ride the bus at the bus stop number 63 on the street de la Torre (stop n ° 175) is found that its old marquee had been replaced by a latest generation white with the new color map of bus lines and a point of information urban mobility (PIMUS) integrated.


The new infrastructure installed by the Department of Transportation was striking. It will not be the only place where it is installed. The City Council plans to do so in Cuatro Caminos, Puerta Real and the bus station to begin . "We can not make any stops at cost, so choosing strategic points and then continue as we permit our budgetary possibilities," said the head of area, Yoya Neira.

Councillor had already submitted the PIMUS last week in the same place where they were designed: Research Center of Information Technologies and Communications (Citic) Elviña campus. But yesterday was the first time they saw installed Coruña one of these new devices , of \u200b\u200bwhich there are four models .

the street from The Tower is a GreenPIMUS , which means that users can view on a screen inside the marquee arrival times of buses, time and temperature, and videos City promotion.

GreenPIMUS : Point

low information designed to be integrated inside a marquee . Equipped with batteries allow it to function without electricity for 16 hours, the batteries are recharged by connecting streetlights. In the case of having a installing solar panels on the marquee, could be completely autonomous.

But Neira stressed that this is a prototype and will be on probation for nearly a year . In all that time reception will be checked for neighbors is the new marquee also be monitored if there is a problem not covered by their diseñadore s which are, incidentally, two college students who Neira included in his thanks.

In fact, the Socialist councilor gave much of the fact that the information point is a design that Coruña and try pioneering system. "When I arrived at the Department of Transportation," recalled Neira, we decided to make public transport accesibl Coruña and for everyone and one of the main demands had was information. "

Since then, the city has developed several initiatives always based on digital technology , as new screens have been installed in line 4 stops and allow the traveler to be aware of the frequency of buses and their arrival time.

should also mention what s new posts, more modern and accessible (they are placed at the level of the user's eyes) with all necessary information, including the new map of bus lines . It also has a code sent by SMS to 215000 at a cost of 0.18 cents can find out when that point will go through the next bus without ever leaving home.

But undoubtedly the the PIMUS , whose first exponent A Coruña could see yesterday in the streets of Torre is the star of Mobility program when information. For starters, because [the project] has cost 197,000 euros (provided by state funds) to develop and, secondly, because engineers have done Coruña, School of Industrial Design at the University of A Coruña.
[According informáis us in the comments, the economic cost of the new marquee is equivalent to the existing] . In the more advanced models (other than the one installed yesterday) can use the touch screen to explain such PLANNED route on foot or by bus from one point to another in the city, to your taste.

The prototype is built marquee, as the City Council, with an innovative material that supports their molded to give the most possible ergonomic, addition to being durable enough to withstand vandalism.

20minutes Journal: Between 12,000 and 14,000 euros cost of new bus shelters (pictured, Tower) that cost will be installed in "strategic points," said the mayor of Transport. Report on waiting, transfers and includes a map with lines.

The canopy is equipped with a bank and a armrests (and a supporting horizontal bar ergonomically studied) and has room for the new plane formats meters of Network City buses, with corresponding street , something that says Yoya Neira:

Neira Marquee by busurbano

And what you see in the imágfenes, also has support for WiFi and Bluetooth , plus alerts for blind . Will be analyzed in more detail.

Source: El Ideal Gallego and La Opinión de A Coruña
Images: La Opinión de A Coruña, El Ideal Gallego, EloyTP , blogbusurbano, 20minutes
Audio: Radio Galega

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