95% accuracy for bus arrival information: LTA
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SINGAPORE: After three months' of fine-tuning, an enhanced system to inform commuters of bus arrival timings has improved accuracy, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) said, with 95 per cent of the estimations falling within three minutes of the actual bus arrival time.
In a news release on Thursday (Jul 16), LTA said the downloads of the MyTransport.SG app and other third-party apps using bus arrival timing data from LTA's data sharing platform, DataMall, has grown significantly. Prior to the system’s launch, the DataMall received roughly 4 million download requests a month. Today, it receives about 10 million download requests daily for bus arrival timing data, LTA said.
LTA had been refining the bus arrival information system public feedback, correlated with over 50 million data points collected daily.
The authority said there will be even better accuracy in predicting bus arrival timings when LTA's Common Bus Fleet Management system is implemented in mid-2016. It will see scheduled bus data currently provided by bus operators, centrally managed.
- CNA
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then i must be the 5% every day loh
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95% my fucking ass. who is LTA trying to fool?
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many time bus go yet app show bus arriving. i run to stop and then kno bus already gone
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LTA loads of bull
9 months back in evening(weekday PM peak) around 1745hrs, bus stop at M Parade Rd(in front OCBC bank) still has freqs for 196A, 196E, 853, 401.
Wats more interesting is that the time arrived is counting down ie 5 mins, 4 mins
Called LTA, some OIC returned my call say info supplied by SBST, SMRT, n gave me lotsa bull tt building signal affect the correct, actual arrival time. Trying to smoke me coz the 4 mentioned services dun run wkday evening peak...
Most timer boards around SG are screwed up...
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We take it as 70% correct,Though i very seldom take PTs but i notice there is errors on the bus arrival notice.Sometime show next bus is 20mins but in reality its only 6-8 mins away