The main activity I carry out day by day, is the transportation of myself from point a to point b. When riding the bus to work, it always bothers me whether my bus will be on time or not. Currently there aren´t any solutions to find it out also.
I think here is the opportunity of digital media to fill this gap of knowledge and make public transportation more competitive towards cars. Why cannot there be LED screens in bus-stops that would display GPS-related information about nearby buses. Today all of public transportation is equipped with GPS-signal-emitting hardware. This signal could be in the future used through wireless fidelity to publish information about the bus´s whereabouts.
A small microchip inside the screen (or in some central processing station) could also calculate the approximate time when the bus will arrive to my station. In case of trains, this time could be manually input to the information system.
When this information would be in a central station, then we could easily create a real-time central information station (website) about current traffic - the idea would be that the more information-consuming passenger would have extensive abilities to plan their upcoming trips (rather then just watch a paper-based schedule).
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