Utah commuter rail system upgrades INIT solution

INIT, Innovations in Transportation, has signed a contract with the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) in Salt Lake City for the installation of an intelligent transportation solution to be fitted on more than 35 FrontRunner commuter rail vehicles. Fifty per cent of the vehicles already have existing automatic passenger counting technology from INIT and will be upgraded with the new system components.

May 16, 2012 Read time: 1 min

511 INIT, Innovations in Transportation, has signed a contract with the 5583 Utah Transit Authority (UTA) in Salt Lake City for the installation of an intelligent transportation solution to be fitted on more than 35 FrontRunner commuter rail vehicles. Fifty per cent of the vehicles already have existing automatic passenger counting technology from INIT and will be upgraded with the new system components.

The contract calls for on-board computers (CoPilotPC), passenger information displays (PIDmobil), driver data terminals (PressIT) and on-board announcements (PAmobil). In addition to the hardware, INIT will supply software for real-time passenger information online and at stops (Mobile-StopInfo), along with reporting software, (MobileStatistics).

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Init to upgrade CDTA intelligent transportation management system

Capital District Transportation Authority (CDTA), located in Albany, New York, has awarded Init the contract to implement an intelligent transportation management system (ITMS) across their entire fixed-route fleet. The contract will modernise CDTA’s existing fleet management system to a cloud-hosted system, upgrade the automatic passenger counting system and deploy real-time passenger infotainment displays on-board and at various stop locations. CDTA customers will have their choice of real-time informa