Public Transport fleet management systems: in order to have a real time monitoring of their service, the company TPL (Lugano Public Transports) relies on Teq's fleet management system. The results for users are excellent and some more technological innovations are being planned. Source: Rivista Autobus, March 2009 Bruno Boni
Electronics at hand. The growing need for higher performances and deeper controls on board of vehicles led to a considerable increase in the amount of electric cables. ADICOM Automotive Digital Control Modules is a system able to replace the traditional electrical equipment and to perform those functions which hardly integrate with the rest of the equipment. Source: Il mondo dei trasporti,…
TEQ / World-wide innovation in the field of safety. The Swiss company, with headoffice in Barbengo, recently put on the market a new product, which represents a real world-wide innovation. It is called GPD, acroniym of Gas Protective Device, and it is an on-board modern system of protection from gas escapes. Through special sensors, normally placed in the motor or…
With the new monitoring system, TPL considerably improved their service. The new service managing system (SIGE) adopted by Trasporti Pubblici Luganesi (TPL) became effective in the last few months. It allows a better working organization with consequent great benefits for the company. Source: Corriere del Ticino, 27 October 2006
An anti-attack button is available to all drivers. A button, hidden in the console of every bus in Lugano, enables the driver to contact in case of need the TPL operations centre and the police, who can immediately locate the vehicle and listen to what is happening inside it. Source: Corriere del Ticino, 27 October 2006
Thanks to satellite technology, it is possible to manage the fluency of pubblic transport traffic, as proved by TPL / Swisscom / TEQ project. Source: Corriere del Ticino, 24 October 2006
TPL (the Public Transport Company of Lugano) implemented a system which, with the aid of mobile communication technologies, gives the passengers a better service with more punctual buses and always updated information. On-time arrivals/departures at/from bus stops, adherence to timetable and to connections among different lines' journeys are more and more important elements in public transport offer. Source: Swiss Money, October…
TPL (the Public Transport Company of Lugano) implemented a system which, with the aid of mobile communication technologies, gives the passengers a better service with more punctual buses and always updated information. On-time arrivals/departures at/from bus stops, adherence to timetable and to connections among different lines' journeys are more and more important elements in public transport offer. Source: Swiss Money, October…
A system against bus delays. It is impossible to get off at the wrong bus stop: thanks to the new information system giving both visual and acoustic advice, passengers know exactly where they are and when they have to get off. In these weeks, users have realized that the service has evidently improved, with great advantage above all for tourists…
This system is entirely planned, co-ordinated and managed by a team of Cotral engineers co-operating with companies such as Maior, Incar and TEQ, with the international company Oracle and with bus suppliers such as Irisbus and Bredamenarinibus. The AVM system will be applied to the whole Cotral fleet within the month of December and this will be a great step…