With the new monitoring system, TPL considerably improved their service. The new service managing system (SIGE) adopted by Trasporti Pubblici Luganesi (TPL) became effective in the last few months. It allows a better working organization with consequent great benefits for the company. Source: Corriere del Ticino, 27 October 2006
An anti-attack button is available to all drivers. A button, hidden in the console of every bus in Lugano, enables the driver to contact in case of need the TPL operations centre and the police, who can immediately locate the vehicle and listen to what is happening inside it. Source: Corriere del Ticino, 27 October 2006
Thanks to satellite technology, it is possible to manage the fluency of pubblic transport traffic, as proved by TPL / Swisscom / TEQ project. Source: Corriere del Ticino, 24 October 2006
TPL (the Public Transport Company of Lugano) implemented a system which, with the aid of mobile communication technologies, gives the passengers a better service with more punctual buses and always updated information. On-time arrivals/departures at/from bus stops, adherence to timetable and to connections among different lines' journeys are more and more important elements in public transport offer. Source: Swiss Money, October…
TPL (the Public Transport Company of Lugano) implemented a system which, with the aid of mobile communication technologies, gives the passengers a better service with more punctual buses and always updated information. On-time arrivals/departures at/from bus stops, adherence to timetable and to connections among different lines' journeys are more and more important elements in public transport offer. Source: Swiss Money, October…
A system against bus delays. It is impossible to get off at the wrong bus stop: thanks to the new information system giving both visual and acoustic advice, passengers know exactly where they are and when they have to get off. In these weeks, users have realized that the service has evidently improved, with great advantage above all for tourists…
This system is entirely planned, co-ordinated and managed by a team of Cotral engineers co-operating with companies such as Maior, Incar and TEQ, with the international company Oracle and with bus suppliers such as Irisbus and Bredamenarinibus. The AVM system will be applied to the whole Cotral fleet within the month of December and this will be a great step…
Gps control will be compulsory starting from 2007. Teq can supply a system which is already compliant. Monitoring the road transport of tanks containing hazardous goods is the latest need to grant safety, as per article 1.10.3 Adr 2005. It is therefore necessary to equip tanks with a GPS location system which constantly informs the operations centre about the vehicle's…
Teq, electronis for automotive: 20 years of experience in the field of automotive electronics. Teq, located in Barbengo, near Lugano, was born in 1986 as supplier of systems for exceptional transport vehicles and for self-propelled machinery used in scrap metal yards. Mr. Alessandro Prioglio, managing director of the company, explains: "In the early Nineties we had the intuition that CAN…
An electronic eye keeps a watch on Taboga trucks. In this way it is possible to know where they are and to certify deliveries. Nowadays there is much interest in the possibility of using electronic systems to aid driving, but also in the use of electronics for transport companies to manage and monitor their fleets. Source: Rivista Vado e Torno, January…