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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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