AMTRAN

Altoona Metro Transit
Altoona, PA

Avail Customer since 2000

Customer Profile

AMTRAN provides public transit service for central Blair County and currently operates a fixed route fleet consisting of approximately 27 vehicles.

Avail Technology and Services Snapshot

  • Traveler Information System - provides Transit Center passengers with real-time arrival and departure information via electronic signage and public audio announcements

  • Intelli-Fare - provides farebox ridership and revenue reporting, data mining, and analysis for operational personnel

Project History

2000 - AMTRAN selected Avail to install our Traveler Information System (TIS) for their new Transit Center. This system provides passengers with real-time arrival, departure, and bay information via electronic signage and public audio announcements throughout the Transit Center. In addition to directing the arriving and departing passengers to the correct bay, this system also records all activity and provides a management console that allows staff to monitor live activity at the Transit Center from the main office location, as well as provide reports of on-time arrival and departure information for assessment of operational performance.

2000 - AMTRAN along with three other Pennsylvania transit agencies began working with Avail Technologies as a beta customer on the development of our Intelli-Fare software product. AMTRAN staff provided Avail Technologies with input and direction for the reporting needs of small-to-medium sized transit properties. The Intelli-Fare software product was designed to help properties get the most out of the vast amount of data that is being collected by an electronic farebox collection system and make it easily accessible. Avail’s Intelli-Fare provides extensive exception capabilities to make the data more accurate, then makes this data easily accessible providing user friendly yet powerful ridership and revenue reporting, data mining, and analysis tools for management and operational personnel. This project was funded in part by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and is now being utilized by customers nationwide.

Links

http://www.amtran.org/

Contacts

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