Many transit systems around the U.S. are using global positioning systems to track their buses. Some of these systems provide bus locations in real-time on web maps. With internet integration becoming common in portable electronics, this research project analyzed the opportunity to utilize mass market devices to assist the general public and persons with disabilities to access and navigate fixed route bus services. This study has taken advantage of the state of the art automatic vehicle location systems aboard the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority and MetroWest (Boston) Regional Transit Authority bus services, Microsoft Virtual Earth mapping services and Microsoft MapPoint Web Services to design, build and test hand held device interfaces and powerful web applications on personal computers for transit customer information systems. These technologies can provide all consumers, particularly transit consumers with disabilities, with improved access to mainstream bus services.
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机译：美国各地的许多公交系统都在使用全球定位系统来跟踪其公交车。其中一些系统在网络地图上实时提供公交车位置。随着互联网集成在便携式电子产品中变得越来越普遍，该研究项目分析了利用大众市场设备来协助公众和残疾人访问和导航固定路线公共汽车服务的机会。这项研究利用了Cod角地区运输局和MetroWest（波士顿）地区运输局巴士服务，Microsoft Virtual Earth映射服务和Microsoft MapPoint Web Services上最先进的自动车辆定位系统的设计，建造和测试手在个人计算机上拥有用于运输客户信息系统的设备接口和功能强大的Web应用程序。这些技术可以为所有消费者，特别是有残疾的过境消费者提供更好的主流巴士服务。
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