{"280291":{"#nid":"280291","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Research on transit wait time convinces Florida county to invest $12.6 million in bus locator system","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBroward County, Florida, approved by unanimous vote the allocation of $12.6 million for a bus locator and dispatcher system.\u0026nbsp;Research has shown that giving passengers an accurate forecast makes them feel better about the entire transit experience, said Kari Edison Watkins, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca id=\u0022OREDU0000542\u0022 class=\u0022taxInlineTagLink\u0022 title=\u0022Georgia Institute of Technology\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/topic\/education\/colleges-universities\/georgia-institute-of-technology-OREDU0000542.topic\u0022\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/a\u003E. It can be more important to riders than increasing the frequency or timeliness of buses, for example.\u0026nbsp;Watkins was part of a university research team that created an app called OneBusAway, now in use in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca id=\u0022PLGEO100100404010000\u0022 class=\u0022taxInlineTagLink\u0022 title=\u0022Tampa\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/topic\/us\/florida\/hillsborough-county\/tampa-PLGEO100100404010000.topic\u0022\u003ETampa\u003C\/a\u003E, Seattle and Atlanta.\u0026nbsp;She said she found that passengers waiting for buses feel a warped sense of time.\u0026nbsp;\u0022What happens is \u2014 and this is typical in all waiting situations, like when you\u0027re waiting in the doctor\u0027s office \u2014 you feel like you\u0027re waiting longer than you actually are,\u0022 Watkins said \u0022[But] when you have this information, it brings your perception of that wait in line with how long you\u0027re actually waiting.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27714","created_gmt":"2014-03-04 11:19:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:59","author":"Kyle James","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"illusions of inclusion","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/broward\/fl-broward-transit-revolution-20140301,0,7013710.story","dateline":{"date":"2014-03-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-03-02T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"88061","name":"broward county"},{"id":"88071","name":"bus locator"},{"id":"61421","name":"Kari Watkins"},{"id":"65181","name":"OneBusAway"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}