Bus guidance system switched off in Las Vegas

01 May 2009
 

The optIcal guidance system on Las Vegas’ fleet of 10 Irisbus Civis trambuses has now been switched off as a result of reliability issues with the technology and the vehicles are now driven manually.

Speaking at the Transit-presented Bus as Rapid Transit conference in London last week, Mike Wescombe of consultancy firm Jacobs revealed that the desert climate of the city meant that dust was obscuring the painted lines on the road surface the system uses.

“The white lines were...

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