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The Present => DC Transit Today => Topic started by: OrionFlyer on July 01, 2009, 03:07:03 PM

Title: The Flxibles and older NABIs.
Post by: OrionFlyer on July 01, 2009, 03:07:03 PM
Do they have GPS on them as well?
Title: Re: The Flxibles and older NABIs.
Post by: 79MetroExtraMD on July 01, 2009, 07:54:17 PM
Yep. All of Metro's buses have the Orbital radios installed in them.
Title: Re: The Flxibles and older NABIs.
Post by: OrionFlyer on July 01, 2009, 08:04:31 PM
So that means they can also be tracked with NextBus. I thought only the buses with Clever Devices could.
Title: Re: The Flxibles and older NABIs.
Post by: 79MetroExtraMD on July 01, 2009, 08:58:55 PM
Quote from: OrionFlyer on July 01, 2009, 08:04:31 PM
So that means they can also be tracked with NextBus. I thought only the buses with Clever Devices could.
Only in Chicago. Nextbus uses the Orbital data to track the bus's position and determines the estimated arrival times.
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