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Imagine public transportation without transit signage. This would mean unpredictable schedules and not knowing where a particular bus or train would go, resulting in poor customer service and confusion all around. Static transit signs certainly help, but you can save time and money by shifting to innovative LED transit signage. The upgrade can give your transportation company the edge it needs to stand out from the competition while making sure that your passengers are well-informed on routes, stops, and schedules. Transit LED signs can also help them recognize how close they are to their destination.

Technology and Convenience

The previous decade alone was a showcase of how technology evolved and revolutionized most aspects of our lives, from the way we communicate to the way we get around. Big data, analytics, digital platforms, and cloud computing continue to become a bigger part of our daily routines. These days, these technologies are being integrated into transportation systems—including public transit—particularly through transit signage. Where safety is a top priority in the ecosystem of road transport, there is a need for effective transit signs to keep passengers properly informed and capable of making smarter decisions for their commute.

Innovation is part of the movement to keep enhancing transit operations. It introduced new technologies such as LED transit signage, which helped public transportation companies become more cost-efficient and effective at delivering helpful, time-saving solutions to passengers.

LED is an energy-saving solution that provides a more versatile method of delivering service advisories to passengers. It is a more practical way to display announcements, too, as it eliminates the need to manually write, draw, or paint signs as is done on analog or static signage.

Make information easier to read

LED transit signs are easily visible and really do attract attention, as their brilliant lighting can easily be read over 500 feet away. That makes them helpful in disseminating information to passengers and brings convenience to their commutes.

Keeping passengers well-informed reflects on your commitment to serving them well. They are more likely to appreciate your service when they know that you care about their safety and well-being during their travels.

Just be sure to choose the right LED transit signage. You can’t go wrong with scrolling LED signs from Transign.

Scrolling LED transit signs are sure to draw attention with their bright screens and easy-to-read text. They keep passengers focused on the message pertaining to travel advisories, schedules, and routes.

Keeping everyone safe

Technology is key to improving the safety of public transportation. It provides cost-efficient and time-saving processes while delivering innovative ways to solve problems. By investing in LED transit signs, you are not merely embracing technology and innovation—you are also introducing a safer and more convenient way to travel. Some of the best signs do more than just provide information. They are integrated with other systems, like GPS, for real-time vehicle tracking.

You can also find transit signage that lets you update information, such as routes and timetables, in real-time when connected to the internet, or through a thumb drive. This way, you do not have to worry about manually updating transit signs to enhance productivity and optimize your fleet’s scheduled travel times.

Not just for safety

Providing up-to-date information is not the only benefit of using LED transit signs. These innovative digital signage solutions can be used to bring in additional revenue to your transit company. Businesses can partner with you to promote or advertise their services or products on your LED transit signage, and display monitors, thereby creating a new stream of income. Creative ads can even entertain passengers during their commute.

Interested? Contact Transign for LED signage solutions that will suit your needs.

When it comes to high-quality transit signs, only a few manufacturers stand out—and Transign is top-notch. We are favored by discerning transportation companies looking for high-quality and cost-effective bus signs to improve their customer service. Wondering why we’re popular and so highly preferred? Here’s everything you need to know about us and our products:

We offer the latest technologies.
As a reputable manufacturer of transit signs since 1959, we use the most cutting-edge and proven signage technologies, including high-quality LED. This ensures that our signs are readable, visible, properly illuminated, and can last for thousands of hours even when operating around-the-clock. We design all of our LED bus signs for versatility, enabling transportation companies to display any message, such as routes, timetables, traffic advisories, and next stops in real-time.

Our products are backed by a lifetime warranty.
Our clients have a lot less to worry about in case a bus route sign breaks down and requires repair or replacement. Our products are warrantied for life, and this eliminates the need to find other third-party technicians for repair.

Our signs are customizable.
Every transportation company will have different needs. That is why we ensure that our bus signs fulfill each client’s unique requirements. Our team will work closely with you to create LED signage to suit your specifications. This way, you can be sure that you are investing in equipment that will make sense for your company’s needs over the long term.

Our products are versatile.
Our bus route signs can be displayed overhead, mounted on walls on both the interior and exterior of the vehicle. Some of them can be customized to suit the needs of other forms of public transit, like ferries and trolleys as well. Just tell us what you require and we will deliver the transit signs that you need.

Transit signs are generally used for navigation—a process that allows people to effectively determine their location and destination, thus allowing them to develop an intelligent plan to go from one point to the other. Navigation signs, therefore, should be, and are, an integral part of any transit system, in the form of destination road signs, bus destination blinds, onboard LED signage, interior and exterior, or any other form of transit signage. Below are some of the most common forms of transit signs used for commercial purposes today:

• Overhead signs – Overhead signage in transit stations is typically reserved for essential information that guides passengers to their destination. The messages that these transit signs carry are typically essential information about their destination or the transit operators serving the transit station. They also provide other important details like street names, major buildings, landmarks, parking directions, or other transit options at different decision points like the station entries and exits, fare gates, etc.
• Flag and wall mounted transit signs – Transit stations also require these types of signs for facility identification and regulatory reminders, as well as other informational directions that let people know how to find their way around the station, how they should use the facilities, amenities, or other provisions within the transit station.

Different signage types can also be identified through the purpose they serve. Transit signs, such as bus destination blinds, LED destination signs mounted on front, back and side, as well as the interior can be found on-board transit vehicles, used to inform passengers about essential trip details. They are also seen on the road, in the form of destination road signs, that help people keep track of the time getting to their destination.

In addition to transit station information and directional signs, there are many other forms of transit related signage that can be helpful to passengers, like informational signs that display train schedules, fare rates, and station maps that include accessible routes to key areas of a transit station or platform. As information is absolutely necessary to our everyday activities, signage plays a critical role, including instructions on the use of ticket vending machines, change machines, add fare machines, parking validation machines, as well as station agent assistance devices. Visual message boards are also commonly used to display real time destination information and transit schedules on concourse and platform levels of transit stations. These types of informational signs are a standard requirement in these types of public platforms in order to ensure proper identification of transit routes and schedules, and are an efficient integration of transit information for the benefit of passengers, travelers and transit staff, alike.

Transign has been providing the transit industry with high-quality, long-lasting transit signage for almost 6 decades, and now bring about innovation in transportation signage with our LED Destinator EnCompass replace with Series. Harnessing the power of technology, our LED Destinator EnCompass™ uses hands-free control options which change all interior and exterior signage according to the change to geolocation of the bus. The driver is then able to comfortably attend to roads, stops and onboard passengers without the distraction of having to change messages periodically. Travel is thus safer.

Technology is the harbinger of change, and we believe in using it to revolutionize the way the transit industry operates. Travelers and Transit companies stand to gain from our advancements through automation and focus on passenger, operator and vehicle safety.

Get the LED Destinator EnCompass™ edge

Affordable and Efficient
The LED Destinator EnCompass™ system is affordable and will allow you to offer passengers enhanced services through better communication throughout the bus, as well as messaging directly to their PDA or cell phone. Such efficiency will result in increased ridership and better revenues. Configurable via a secure web interface with pre-set routes, interest points, and landmarks, these transit signs will allow you to display custom messages at each desired geolocation trigger point. Route updates are also applied automatically to each device wirelessly at chosen intervals. The optional 3G/cellular dispatch system can remotely assign message updates, detours, and stop changes, and provides instant communication between drivers and dispatch operations.

Safe and efficient
Safety is at the core of this technology. As messaging is driven by automation, drivers can focus on their core task – driving. Without the distraction and botheration of having to change messages periodically. Driving gets safer even as your transit agency acquires the good reputation of delivering accurate messaging and transporting passengers safely. Efficiently too, as passengers get real time route information and fewer service interruptions caused by equipment failure or human error.

Superior travel experience

With this system, travel will become a pleasure for your passengers. The destination/route information is clear, accurate and timely. It enables the synchronization of interior messages, next stop announcements and more. Agencies now have an opportunity to generate additional revenue through merchant advertising in the vicinity of each bus stop, triggered by its geolocation. Other exciting features include an Automated Voice Announcement, Passenger Counting and GPS/AVL Tracking

In keeping with the times

The transportation industry today has new and effective means for displaying information that is essential for the daily traveler. New technology innovations have added to the entire traveling experience and have made it more passenger-oriented with advanced passenger information systems
For more than 55 years we have provided the transit industry with high quality, durable destination signs, complimented by a reputation of superior customer service and support. Transign was founded by James Youngblood in 1959 with a commitment to “Quality Products backed by Quality Customer Service” and rapidly became the established market leader in a variety of innovative products for the transit industry.

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.