Shining a light on next-gen solar digital displays
Limited infrastructure deployment and real-time integrated content management drive Papercast® and Waysine® to success in a competitive market. The traditional argument that stifles sign [...]
Pre-plan your RFP evaluation
Tools to help your RFP to set realistic expectations and deliver a focused review. Over our history, ETA Transit has submitted hundreds of proposals for mass transit technology RFPs. We’ve [...]
What factors influence customer satisfaction?
Communication, not technology, determines the satisfaction with transit systems It is a rarity in the mass transit technology market when we strike up a conversation with a potential customer, [...]
Staff experience
Don’t overlook the “employee factor” when adopting new technology. See if this sounds familiar. You and a select group of co-workers have spent time researching, interviewing, and demoing a new [...]
Are you ready to erase paper inspections?
Here’s what you need to know about digital trip inspection. By Matt Schroeder Director of Marketing, ETA Transit Systems One of the more popular feature requests we receive for our SPOT™ ITS [...]
Passenger engagement goes digital
The next generation of digital display systems provide more ways to educate, inform, and entertain riders By Matt Schroeder Director of Marketing, ETA Transit Systems In the marketing world, [...]
E-paper displays are ready for prime-time transit
New sign technology is poised to remake transit stop communication By Matt Schroeder Director of Marketing, ETA Transit Systems Join me for a brief trip down memory lane. From 2006-2009, I served [...]
It’s time to bury your printed schedules six feet deep.
Display and mobile technologies have rendered the printed schedule obsolete. By Matt SchroederDirector of Marketing, ETA Transit Systems The printed schedule must die. There, I said it and if [...]
Level up driver performance
Driver monitoring technologies exist to identify ineffective behaviors that could impact overall performance, increase rider satisfaction, and contribute to unsafe vehicle operation. Among the [...]
The sky is the limit with a cloud-hosted ITS.
Skeptics abound, but the modern ITS is grounded in operational efficiency. By Matt SchroederDirector of Marketing, ETA Transit Systems Market research is a big part of my gig here at ETA. I’m [...]