Smart minibuses

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

In the 90s minibuses revolutionizedbecoming the only available fast mode of transport … They turned out to be much faster than traditional urban transport with the presence of an important dignity to stop where required by the passenger … It's scary to think - passenger, and not to the official of the city's transport routes, who decided everything for everyone. The second revolution, perhaps, will turn minibuses into an even more convenient form of urban transport, separating it from the general passenger traffic into a slightly more individual side … They should not only stop where the client needs it, but also carry him where the passenger needs it.

Thus, the city authorities decided in Helsinki, 90% of the city's population will no longer need to use their own car. The programmers got down to business and wrote the Kutsupuls program, which turned the project into reality. Using this application on his smartphone or computer, each passenger can call a "taxi" to where he is at the moment indicating the final point of the route, the system will change the route of one of the "minibuses" so that it picks up the client and takes him where necessary. The introduction of Kutsupuls has canceled the usual routes altogether, and the drivers do not even know where their route will end, where they should turn at the next intersection and where the next stop will take place. But the electronic mind knows all this very well, providing each passenger and driver with the necessary information.

As a follow-up to this project, the authorities in the Finnish capital plan to force this application to inform the passenger about the standard routes and timetables of traditional urban transport, call a taxi or minibus, or order a car from the car sharing system.

It was already planned to ban personal vehicles on the streets of Helsenki, when suddenly at the end of 2015 the Kutsupuls project was closed as unprofitable. It turned out that the Finnish authorities, who sponsored the project, suffered only losses (the cost of the trip was 17 euros, although the passenger paid only 5).

But this does not mean that the idea is vile. Indeed, only 15 Kutsupuls minibuses operated in Helsinki, and passengers had to wait for their "horse" for a long time. Experts have calculated that such a project simply needs more machines to achieve payback. For example, 100-200 minibuses connected to Kutsupuls would greatly reduce the cost of an average trip, make the project profitable and make such minibuses not an exotic, but normal public transport. It should come as no surprise that this project was bought out by the Americans. The transportation authorities of the US capital are introducing such smart minibuses in Washington.

A computer, provided that a smart program such as Kutsupuls is used, after a while will turn public transport in the direction of the passenger and allow one of the minibuses to pick you up in a minute or two after the call and take you where you need it in the shortest and fastest way. At the same time, there will be no need to transfer for travel, worry that you will miss your final point and find yourself in a traffic jam, the central computer, possessing all the knowledge, will inform you all the time of the trip.

If Kutsupuls works in your city, minibuses will become even more convenient.

Vladimir Matveev

I don't understand anything in Finnish, like many readers, but everything seems to be clear