The Budapest Transport Company (BKV), Hungary is testing how use of Global Positioning System (GPS) monitoring might help its vehicles avoid Budapest traffic jams, the company announced.
BKV traffic control chief Lajos Szijarto said that the system had already been installed on one bus line, which carries passengers between the northern and southern suburbs of the city, traversing many important traffic junctions that are particularly prone to gridlock. The system will include traffic light monitoring in which a vehicle running behind schedule can signal a traffic light and ask it to turn green.
While it is too soon to tell how much GPS can help buses cope with traffic, passengers waiting in stops with new IT panels telling them how long a wait they have, as relayed by the satellite link, should be pleased.
Source: TMC
