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Though passenger safety regulations’ controlled by FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration) and APTA (American Public Transportation Association) have mandated maximum occupancy, proper installation and safety techniques for equipment, and appropriate communication of passenger safety regulations, passenger safety on America’s public Transit is still lacking on many fronts.

Public Transit: Fraught with dangers

• Very poor communication of passenger safety rules.
• Stationary signs are crowded, unnoticed, and ineffective.
• Drivers have many other responsibilities, and cannot relay safety information or stop information to each passenger without causing other hazards.

As a result of these inadequacies implementing automated systems are becoming the standard way to deal with increased passenger expectations and the rise in traffic, congestion, and other road vulnerabilities.

These systems are wide ranged and comprehensive to include Intelligent Transit Systems, Integrated Passenger Information Systems, LED Bus Signs, Automated voice announcements, visible indicators and sensors for pedestrians “pedestrian safety” and LED Stop Signs.

What are Intelligent Transit Systems (ITS)?

• GPS-guided and automated they function to reduce driver distraction.
• Alert drivers and dispatch to maintenance, safety, or equipment issues.

How can LED bus signs enhance your passengers’ safety and overall experience?

Integrated Passenger Information Systems

• Display schedule, weather, and route changes.
• Allow passengers to monitor and plan schedules.
• Allow passengers to communicate and report issues to management.

LED bus signs (interior and exterior)

• Interior facing to communicate to existing passengers.
• Can include hazard alerts and inclement weather warnings.
• Communicates safety practices and regulations with driver interaction or distraction.

Exterior facing to communicate with waiting passengers and potential clients

Also communicates with other drivers, pedestrians, and potential law enforcement
An emergency button/panic switch “silent alarm” activates the exterior signs to read EMERGENCY CALL 911 and can alert dispatch operations and emergency services.

Automated voice announcements (AVA)

• Ensures all communication is easily seen and or/heard.
• Ensures disabled, blind, and elderly passengers receive full communication.
• Automated by GPS or other specific triggers with little or no driver involvement

External indicators and sensors for pedestrians “pedestrian safety”

• Can announce and flash to pedestrians to avoid bus traffic.
• Can alert driver to pedestrians in vehicle route.
• Activated by turn signal.

LED stop sign

• Can be used to increase safety for all drivers, especially school buses and paratransit vehicles without clearly marked stops.
• Can trigger automatically based on vehicle proximity to stop.
• Can visually and audibly warn passengers that the vehicle will be stopping prior to brakes being applied.

Contact Transign for your destination sign

For more than 55 years Transign has provided the transit industry with high quality, durable destination signs backed by superior customer service. Founded by James Youngblood in 1959 with a commitment to “Quality Products supported by Quality Customer Service.” Transign rapidly became the established market leader in a variety of innovative products for the transit industry.

Areas of Expertise

• Interior and exterior LED destination and passenger information signs.
• Automated voice announcements.
• Geo-location tracking and message delivery.
• Smart device passenger information applications.
• Passenger counting solutions.
• Dynamic reporting tools

LED destination signs make public transport convenient for both – the passengers as well as the transportation agencies. These LED destination boards for buses help improve the operational efficiency and help transport transit companies to provide customers with better services. All the information that a passenger would require while traveling is readily available.

Transit signs play a crucial role in ensuring smooth day to day operations and meet the unique needs of transport vehicles from all regions. They enable centralized control of the information that is displayed, the announcements and the schedules. LED signs also ensure that passengers get adequate information about the next stop and the route. The main advantage of these types of signage is the ability to view them in broad daylight due to their brightness control features. They have a wide viewing angle too that provides excellent readability from anywhere. They are built to be rigid enough for the transport industry and have excellent shock and vibration absorbing capacities.

Various agencies have adopted LED signs, and many have experienced the benefits too.

Same level of functionality and efficiency from rural to metropolitan

LED stop signs are a reliable, efficient and smart solution for small as well as large fleet buses. Public transportation agencies – whether rural or urban get the same level of functionality to improve the operational performance of their systems. They can seamlessly transport people from one place to another without a lot of manual assistance. The destination signs display all the relevant information that a traveler would require to know such as the next stop, the route, the bus number, etc.

Advanced features

Transign's LED destination boards are not restricted to the heavy-duty vehicles and buses transporting a large number of passengers in the metropolitan areas but are easily made available and affordable for small and medium duty vehicles in the non-urban areas too. Sophisticated features such as vehicle tracking, automated message progression, and voice announcements are now made accessible to all.

Convenience of heavy-duty systems at a fraction of the cost

Transign makes it possible for small and medium duty vehicles to include the latest technology transit signs at highly affordable costs. You can install the signs with a variety of messages and program the control unit at a fraction of the cost. More and more rural transportation transit agencies are hence considering installation of these signs and provide their customers with the same convenience that a metropolitan city transport would provide.

Scalability features for growth

With time, as the transport transit agency grows, these signs have just the right scalability features to modify and include the new routes, constantly changing fleet structures and lots more. They are perfect for rapidly growing businesses.

Transign is an industry leader in providing advanced technology signage products that are used by many agencies all over North America and greatly helps in modernizing the way people travel and access information while they reach their destinations conveniently and without too many hassles. It also helps transit industries provide their passengers with the best in class services.