Long Description
Vendors and Developers of Software and Systems
Table is broken down into Passenger-related Technologies and Organization-related technologies. For each category, table lists types of technology and a corresponding site and vendor. These items are presented in a bullet list below.
Passenger Related Technologies:
- Technology:
- Audible enunciators.
- Site and vendor:
- TriMet fixed-route buses: Orbital Sciences' Transportation Management System (TMS)
- TriMet on street: custom-built system using text to voice
- Flint MTA fixed-route: Luminator and Vultron.
- Technology:
- RIAS.
- Site and vendor:
- MUNI: Talking Signs.
- Technology:
- Braille displays of transit information.
- Site and vendor:
- TriMet: BrailleNote.
- Technology:
- Real-time bus location information for riders.
- Site and vendor:
- VCTC: NextBus.
- CCRTA ETA system: custom-built prediction software; user interface on top of Caliper Corporation's Maptitude for the Web and Microsoft's Structured Query Language (SQL) Server and Internet Server .
- TriMet fixed route (bus and rail): Transit Tracker (custom-built system using actual and historical data).
- Technology:
- Electronic fare collection.
- Site and vendor:
- VCTC: ERG Transit System
- CCRTA Tourist Pass: VISA standard mag strip card with custom-built back office database for user-side subsidy
- Flint MTA: GFI Genfare's bus fare collection system
- CRRAFT has plans to use ICTransit.
- Technology:
- Travel planner
- Site and vendor:
- CCRTA transit travel planner: custom-built system using Caliper Corporation's Maptitude for the Web
- VCTC: Transtar
- TriMet Trip Planner: Mantech and custom-built
Organization-related technologies:
- Technology:
- MDT or MDC
- Site and vendor:
- CCRTA and Wheels of Wellness: Mentor Engineering Inc. (functionality can include GPS, smart card reader, and security features)
- TriMet: Orbital Sciences TMS
- VCTC: NextBus system package
- OMNILink: GreyHawk Technologies, Inc.
- Technology:
- Routing, scheduling, and billing
- Site and vendor:
- Wheels of Wellness routing and scheduling, TriMet paratransit (LIFT), Flint MTA, and SMART: Trapeze
- Wheels of Wellness billing: SigTrans
- OmniLink: Trapeze-FLEX
- CCRTA: custom-built system
- TriMet Ride Connect (Portland regional option): RouteMatch
- TriMet fixed-route: Giro-Hastus
- TriMet Medical Transportation Program: custom-built system
- Wheels of Wellness: SigTrans (financial reimbursement system)
- CRRAFT: custom-built system