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May 15

Public transportation bus start to operating the automated annunciator system

Roughly when did the public buses started to do the automated annunicator system, in the case when you go on the bus and approach intersection,you often hear "Now approaching Crown Valley Pky and Marguerite Pky, transfer points through routes 82, 85, 212, and 216", or "Now approaching Alton Pky and Jeronimo Rd, TP through routes 86 and 211" or "Now approaching Culver Dr and Walnut Av, TP through rotues 66 and 79". I know in Orange County Trans. Authority, the bus systems does those, but I don't know when did these started. 1997, did it have that program, I remembered I start to take OCTA bus in Summer 2007, I didn't remember these buses have auto-announcement broadcast, but 2009 when i start to start bus, it had that. i start to learn more about bus and every buses have 4 digit pin code like 7553, 7545, 7515, 7575, 7568 (I think these are new fashioned buses) 5666, 5596, 5673, 5572, 5536 are like these types. I know the 22xx or 23xx are the cutaway buses with speakers on only the 53xx don't have the broadcast announcement systems. Is it only Orange County which maintains these system or Los Angeles County buses some of it have these systems. I thought all Los Angeles County buses are cutaway styles, so I doubt any of these LA buses operates announcement autobroadcasts. What about San Diego County? Any buses over there does automated announcements?--69.233.254.115 (talk) 03:30, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Are you asking specifically about Los Angeles buses? Because public transport all over the world used automated announcements. Adam Bishop (talk) 10:32, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it seems clear to me that he is asking only for information about Los Angeles buses. --Viennese Waltz 11:14, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In Israel, the Egged bus company started approximately a year ago on the intercity line I travel on the northwest coast, and possibly elsewhere in the country. Nateev Express, a local company serving outlying areas, has yet to add these announcements. I would suppose older model buses can be retrofitted with the necessary equipment. It seems this in (tardy) compliance with accessibility laws to benefit passengers with visual impairments, as at around the same time, intersections in the town of Nahariya got audio-equipped notification systems for pedestrians at crosswalks, that at the press of a button announce the location and direction of the traffic signal.-- Deborahjay (talk) 10:50, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A similar system has been in use in London since 2007. See London iBus system. Alansplodge (talk) 17:39, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm seeing that the system is actually called "Automatic Voice Annunciation". But I can't seem to find any SoCal archival news for it.^{Market St.⧏}_{⧐ Diamond Way} 18:42, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

With the buses in Orange County, when did they start announcement, the in formations are found Orange County Transportation Authority#Current, is just quite a bit for me to memorize. The table said 2101-2161 started in 2000 along with 7301-7320, and 2200-2399 started in 2001 along with 7401-7420, but the 5500-5678 and 7500-7592 started in 2007 to 2008, these are the ones I get most of the time.The 5121-5150 are the models made in 2008 --69.233.254.115 (talk) 23:04, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]