It's definitely harder to consistently communicate the status of a fundamentally inconsistent service...remember that "real time" transit trackers are a PATCH to compensate for the train (or bus) never reliably keeping on schedulehttps://twitter.com/Dustin_Hinkley/status/1034432153839443968 …
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They are a solution to a problem that shouldn't exist--it's exactly like the crash safety mentality on American trains, which focuses on being heavy enough to survive crashes because it doesn't do enough to prevent them
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Likewise, having written off perfect schedule adherence as simply impossible--which I might grant for buses, but is pathetic on railways--transit providers turn to GPS to figure out where their vehicles are
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This isn't to disagree with you, but I feel like it also depends on the frequency of the network. Like if it's roughly every 5-10 minutes I don't care but if it's like every 15-30-60 minutes, unless the schedule is posted at the stop, I generally like to have some way of tracking
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even if it only comes 5 times a day--if you know it'll come exactly when it says it will come, what's the problem?
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I picked a random station on a rural line and checked the timetables in a given direction: http://ekikara.jp/newdata/ekijikoku/0101101/down1_01455021.htm … I don't need to check any sort of tracker to see the train's progress--I know it'll be at this station in this direction at exactly the times listed here!
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