Brisbane City Council - Realtime Advanced Priority and Information Delivery (BCC-RAPID) is a
bus priority and passenger information system developed by
Brisbane City Council
Brisbane City Council (BCC) is the democratic executive local government authority for the City of Brisbane, the capital city of the state of Queensland, Australia. The largest City Council in Australia by population and area, BCC's jurisdic ...
that is in use on the
South-East and
Inner-Northern busways
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History
The ori ...
and will be implemented on the
Northern and
Eastern Brisbane busways when they are constructed. It aims to improve road capacity by encouraging people to use buses.
RAPID is built upon Brisbane City Council's
BLISS ITS platform and uses existing
traffic signal
Traffic lights, traffic signals, or stoplights – known also as robots in South Africa are signalling devices positioned at road intersections, pedestrian crossings, and other locations in order to control flows of traffic.
Traffic light ...
infrastructure to track the buses and to lower communications costs.
RAPID uses detector loops in the road and
transponder
In telecommunications, a transponder is a device that, upon receiving a signal, emits a different signal in response. The term is a blend of ''transmitter'' and ''responder''.
In air navigation or radio frequency identification, a flight trans ...
s on buses to track the location of buses
on the road and busway network. The data collected is used in a complex mathematical formula to predict the arrival time of buses at all busway stations and selected stops on the suburban network. The predicted arrival times are displayed on electronic signs for the information of people waiting at these stops.
Operations staff are able to use the system to identify the precise location of buses within the road network. Specifically the system displays bus numbers, route numbers, driver numbers, how early or late a bus is, where it originated and where it will terminate.
The system also has the ability, when configured, to provide traffic light priority to buses if they are running late. This is possible because the same detection loops in the road network are used to control the traffic lights throughout the city.
The system has had significant problems, with information displays frequently being inaccurate, and buses simply not arriving, or their information simply disappearing from the screens.
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Transport in Brisbane
Public transport in Brisbane