INIT Receives Exceptional System Performance Award
Chesapeake/Ottawa, Ontario, May 26, 2010. INIT Innovations in Transportation, Inc. was honored to receive the Canadian Urban Transportation Association’s (CUTA) Corporate Recognition Award on May 18, 2010. The award was given to INIT during CUTA’s Annual Meeting held in Ottawa, Ontario and acknowledged the exceptional system performance of INIT’s intelligent transportation technology on TransLink’s buses during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C. The buses were operated by Coast Mountain Bus Company (CMBC) a wholly-owned subsidiary of TransLink.
The system that INIT provided to equip over 1,500 of CMBC’s fleet included new on-board computers based on Windows XP® embedded technology, an advanced Computer-Aided Dispatch / Automatic Vehicle Location system (CAD/AVL), next stop announcements and mobile data terminals. In a follow up order, INIT provided real-time passenger information via on-board and wayside displays along with an interface to the already present Traffic Signal Priority (TSP) system in Vancouver. Thanks to this comprehensive ITS solution, TransLink was able to easily manage the crowds during the Winter Olympics in Vancouver where the daily ridership average reached 60 % more than normal.
In addition to INIT’s award, TransLink also received two CUTA awards – the Successful Olympic Transportation Plan and Olympic Performance Awards for their great transportation service during the Olympics. Yet, the highest award TransLink and INIT managed to take home was the knowledge that together they successfully managed this world-class event with first-class service.
About TransLink
The South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority (TransLink) is Metro Vancouver’s regional transportation authority and provides service to 21 municipalities situated on 2,000 square kilometers of British Columbia’s southwestern mainland. Coast Mountain Bus Company Ltd. (CMBC) operates 95 % of TransLink’s bus service.