BUSCA (Bus Satellite Control and Assistance) is a system for real time monitoring and collection of positioning data of the fleets, in order to obtain all the information about the transport network and to spread the results to the users.
At the moment the system is going to be adopted by AMAT- the Company of transport in Taranto.
The main objectives of the system are:

• telecontrol and monitoring of vehicles;

• emergencies managment;

• support to activities of planning;

• maintenance of the
network and information to passengers.

BUSCA uses GPS technologies to survey the position, technologies of data
transmission via radio and of management of the data base in real time with a
Geographical Information System.

The data received in the head station will be managed by a system based on GIS
technologies which allows to optimize the management of the fleet, to point out
the operational state of the fleet and any alarm or emergency conditions, to
furnish informations to the users.

To spread information to all citizens different tools will be used: displays located in nerve centers of the network,
a real time updating of the web site, interrogation of the system through SMS
and remote terminal as a Info Point, located in the key points of the city.
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