Revised April 6 at 7:00 am: A short section has been added about Google Maps.
Revised April 5 at 10:00 pm: A section has been added at the end covering those e-initiatives which were not included in the discussion at the TTC.
On March 24, 2010, the Transit Commission received an update from staff on the status of various initiatives broadly relating to the use of information technology. These include:
Internet Trip Planner (ITP)
Next Vehicle Arrival System (NVAS)
Customer Service Disruption Notification (CSDN)
Narrowcasting
Next Train Arrival System (NTAS)
This article gives a summary of that presentation and a few of my own comments on these and other related matters.
Steve Munro 