...it's just around the bend
We reported on the Leicestershire county bus locational data network, and now it appears that Portsmouth is following suit. We don't know if theirs is more or less elaborate, but each of their 300 buses are going to be fitted with transponders from MeshNetworks that send data to the mothership (the Portsmouth Traffic Control Center) location. From this ETA will be calculated and then sent to 36 stop and 9 kiosks around town with LCD panels. But we'll tell you what: still nothing beats that feeling of being a kid and waiting for the schoolbus and when it's 45 minutes late being able to turn around and walk home and skip school that day (maybe only our parents let us do that instead of just walking to school). Too bad that trick doesn't work as an adult.
