Dish fix in Potteries
30th July 1992, Page 16
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• Staffordshire-based PMT is to be the first bus operator to fit satellite equipment which can locate its buses to within 50m.
Next month it will start fitting £300,000 worth of Terrafix equipment, which is based on a navigation system used in the Gulf War. PMT hopes that the move will end bus bunching, and encourage more passengers.
Two-way radios are also being fitted so drivers will be able to call for help in emergencies and notify headquarters of long-queues at bus stops.
In December 1990 PMT's competitor South Yorkshire Transport invested £40,000 in a Datatrak monitoring system for 38 minibuses on a highfrequency route. SYT believes the move helped increase turnover on the route by 2% (CM 20 Dec-2 Jan 1991).
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