Paul Corfield wrote:
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 23:19:56 GMT, "Richard J."
wrote:


Paul Corfield wrote:

(snip)
The Paris Metro answer is to display
network-wide service disruption details on a monitor as you enter the
station, and I find this much more sensible.

There is work going on with this. We have a "heartbeat" display on the
Intranet at work which is now very good and has a very regular update
facility. We also have "Tracker" which shows where the trains are and on
the recently enhanced version you can click on a station and see a big
list of the next 20 trains or so and how long it will take to get there.
On the Jubilee Line it even includes those trains which are still
heading west to Stratford if you click to see the e/b list at Canary
Wharf for example. Not sure when this will be publicly available but I
believe the intention is to provide something via the Tube website in a
similar vein to that for DLR.

This may be available on the Sky Active service launched recently which
apparently has "live departure boards" for Tube stations. I haven't had
a chance to check it out yet (although I will be able to at the weekend).

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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London