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Caltrain to Equip Trains with GPS for Real-Time Delay Updates
December 7, 2009Riders of the San Francisco Bay-area's Caltrain system will be able to call or go online to check delay information starting in spring 2011, reports the Palo Alto Daily News.
The Caltrain board of directors signed a $1.8 million deal on December 3 with a Maryland-based transportation firm to install GPS tracking technology in its trains. The transit operator will use the system to post expected arrival times of trains at all station platforms from San Francisco to San Jose online at 511.org and on the 511 phone system.
The directors awarded the contract to ARINC Inc. and will pay the firm using money they had previously set aside for capital improvement projects.
Caltrains have arrived at platforms on time at a rate of 94 percent since July 2008. But deaths on the tracks (15 since May) have resulted in major delays of an hour or more.
Caltrain will join other agencies such as BART, San Francisco Muni, and AC Transit in the East Bay in providing real-time arrival data to riders. SamTrans expects its $1.2 million GPS-enabled real-time delay system to begin running in March.
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