This paper shows that, although there have been some significant achievements in the delivery of public transport intelligent transportation systems (ITS) in New South Wales, Australia to date, further significant expansion of ITS implementation in the public transport arena is likely to deliver significant benefits to both users and operators as well as satisfying a range of broad government policy objectives. To realise these benefits both bus operators and government regulators will have to work in a cooperative coordinated manner to address some of the issues highlighted within this paper that have to date limited the effectiveness of some past initiatives. The ITS Implementation Plan will ensure that State Transit can act in a structured and coordinated way in pursuing the implementation of internal ITS systems and will enable it to promote the development of, and be an informed consumer of, public transport ITS systems that may be implemented by external parties.
Samenvatting