Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery
Planning, Approving and Delivering Transport Infrastructure Projects: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Hugh Creegan:
It very much does. There is an automatic vehicle location technology on buses and that feeds information into a system we have, which will put it out onto an app and street signs. We are aware that on some occasions the right information is not appearing. We have a team of three or four people who are chasing down every step of that process to see where the problem might be. Often if the service is cancelled, it has not been cancelled in a manner promptly enough such that can be displayed on our system. In other cases, we may have an issue that the antenna on the bus is not correctly sending the signal as to where it is and therefore the information is not being displayed. We have a number of people working on with the idea of debugging as many of these things as we can and debugging the process. Then we have a larger project, which is to replace that old system with a brand new automatic vehicle location system. This will be rolled out on the bus fleet during next year. We will have a new system next year which will be a whole lot better.
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