iBus - Abellio London

Abellio group - operating over 750 buses and employing 2,500 staff across 6 depots in Central, South and West London. We believe that public transport is a vital part of community life and we aim to offer easier journeys, every day, through offering a professional and quality service in everything we do.
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The iBus is an Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) system to improve London's buses using technology installed by Siemens AG. The system tracks all of London's 8000 buses to provide passengers with audio visual announcements, improved information on bus arrivals, and to trigger priority at traffic junctions.
IBus is a leading manufacturer and provider of High Availability Computing platforms for use in mission-critical applications and is committing significant investment into the ongoing R&D of a range of ISA-PCI, AdvancedTCA, and CompactPCI solutions.
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The essential part of the system relies on GPS satellite data that roughly determine the location of a bus down to 100 metres. Data collected from GPS is passed into a Kalman filter,[ and other data including velocity and temperature is calculated on the bus and transmitted every 30 seconds via GPRS. With the bus network map, this helps the Central System to make a "best guess" of the bus position and depicts the overall image derived from the data provided by all buses, even in areas with poor GPS reception. The Central System can update the countdown signs as before that now has a more accurate prediction derived from all this data. Knowing the location of the bus, controllers have the means to regulate the service more efficiently, and priority can be given to a bus at traffic lights.

[@misfitsalliance6213]

some of the ibus controllers need training on how to talk to bus drivers as they are rude and unhelpful at times

[@matthewdoyle3877]

you mean all the time

[@mikebond2745]

I have worked for you, you are deceiving the drivers and destroying them

[@preacherab3375]

Some of the worst controllers I’ve ever dealt with in my time as a bus driver. Very ill mannered and unhelpful individuals.

[@matthewdoyle3877]

They should make it part of there contract to drive in service once a week, so they see what really happens on the road, instead of the cosy office