DASH to Receive Real-Time Information System
System expected to create better customer experience and potentially boost ridership.
Alexandria City Council approved the use of $650,000 in state funds on Tuesday for the purchase of a real-time information system for the DASH bus fleet. The real-time system will offer DASH riders accurate information as to the location of buses and the time buses are expected to arrive at stops. DASH General Manager Sandy Modell said the installation of a real-time information system has proven to boost ridership in other jurisdictions, including a 5 percent increase in Chicago. A 2 percent increase in ridership could earn DASH about $80,000 more annually in fare revenue. Real-time technology takes account of the location of the bus using GPS and traffic patterns to estimate bus arrivals. Riders can access the information on the web or …
Bob Johansen
3:41 pm on Friday, October 26, 2012
I believe that DASH is putting in a NextBus system - just like WMATA, and virtually all of the other agencies have. For some reason Montgomery County Ride-On has built it's own system - seems like a Mickey Mouse system and, from what I hear, it costs them more to keep it running and pay their inflated public sector salaries than to outsource it to a firm like NextBus. Geniuses. more ›