Earlier this month, Avego participated in the WhereCamp 2010 San Francisco “un-conference” at the Google campus in Mountain View, CA.
Just a few days before the event, the hot topic on Twitter was how attendees could get to WhereCamp without Driving. Avego took up the challenge and in just 3 days put together a soup to nuts deployment of a shuttle service with reliable real-time passenger information (RTPI) capabilities.
Using Avego’s GPS-enabled mobile data terminal installed inside 2 vans, which were very kindly provided by VPSI, the service ran between the Google campus, Caltrain in Mountain View and the San Jose Convention Center.
Real-time departure boards were set-up at the event, so the 300 attendees could know exactly when the next shuttle would arrive.
The great success of the service demonstrates the positive effect that RTPI can have on ridership numbers, and further highlights the speed and ease of deployment of Avego’s hosted real-time information and management systems.
Wherecamp, “a community-led grassroots conference for geo enthusiasts, developers, artists, and theorists”, has grown from a small group of people three years ago to over three hundred participants in 2010.
Avego would like to thank VPSI for providing the vans on such short notice and everyone who used the service during Wherecamp.
