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[jack]

http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/transport/bus_timetables/real+time+bus+departure+information.htm

Hey, they're bringing in real time "when the bus is expected" displays. I wonder if it'll work? I wonder if it'll be available online? (That's what would be most useful to me, be at home and see if "OMG there's a 50min wait. I'm walking" or "Hey, 5 min, best get out there" rather than the assumption that busing is an inherent choice independent of speed :))

In other news, I totally forgot to use my feminism tag on the last post :)

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[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I know it's possible, I'm glad it's getting here.

it's a 1B compsci project to do the online bus expected thing - at least, it was when I was there...

How does that work? Do you have to find a council implementing it or waht?

[mair_in_grenderich]

you were supposed to be able to put units on certain buses to send you a signal/location.

The idea is to create a system which can (eg) email you five minutes before the bus gets to Madingley Road so you can start walking up from the WGB.

In practice in my year they weren't allowed to put the things on the buses after all so they just wrote a simulation.

[sillytrippy.livejournal.com]

I think they gave up after that, it wasn't on in my year.

[chess]

It was a possible Part II project this year to actually work on the real system that they're putting up.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

You could have making a traffic simulation be another project, with (perhaps pre-defined, and for added realism, bizarre and broken) interfaces between them for getting information out of the busses.