Starting next February, Barcelona will have a new type of bus stops. So TMB has announced it during the Smart City Expo World Congress 2024, which was held in the Catalan capital itself. The most striking thing about these new bus stops is that they will have a screen to show information but also sensors and cameras to analyze what is happening around them.
What the new BusPas stops are like. Barcelona will implement the Canadian company’s technology in some of its stations BusPas Inc. It is a solution that combines a screen with information for passengers with solar energy and subsequently sensors, which through artificial intelligence algorithms decide what information to show to users.
15 stops near the center. Barcelona City Council and TMB explain that these smart bus stops will begin to be tested from February 2025 at 15 stops around Plaça Catalunya. For a year they will be in operation as a pilot test. After this period, the results will be analyzed and it will be decided whether to continue with the technology.
Powered by NVIDIA Metropolis. BusPas is still an application NVIDIA Metropolisthe set of tools offered by the technology company to manage visual data, traffic engineering in smart cities, access controls and public transportation. In this case, with the aim of converting bus stops into control and data collection points.
What functions will it have? As described by BusPas, among the possibilities of these stops is to control traffic, monitoring the lanes to see when traffic is very congested and suggesting different options. It will also show data on the number of passengers. And finally there is that of acting as electrical charging stations, a priori initially only to power the light and the energy consumed by the screen itself.
According to those responsible explainwill offer live images of vehicle occupancy. To know in advance if a bus is very full or empty.
Traffic information will also be visible to the user. Here, in addition to the classic arrival time, from an application you can receive an alternative route with several alternative itineraries from the stop where you are.
At the accessibility level, the stops will have a button to receive information aurally, so that deaf users can receive instructions.
Also providing security: with an automatic light when there are people. Another function of the sensors is to offer calm and security to people waiting for the bus. The stations have lights and this will be activated at night automatically when they detect that there are people waiting. In addition to offering security in dark environments, it will also make it easier for the bus driver to see that there are people waiting.
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