Yongin City Installs Digital Bus Information Boards at 76 Bus Stops Including Bojeong High School

[Suwon Ilbo=Choi Ki-ho] Yongin Special City announced on the 24th that it has installed digital bus information boards (BIT) at 76 locations throughout the city, including a bus stop in front of Bojeong High School in Giheung-gu, to enhance convenience for bus users.

Digital bus information boards are devices that transmit the Bus Information System (BIS), which provides real-time bus location, arrival times, congestion levels, and other transit operation information.

The digital bus information boards were installed at 29 locations in Cheoein-gu, including the Dongmak bus stop in Namsa-eup, 25 locations in Giheung-gu including the Bojeong High School bus stop, and 22 locations in Suji-gu, including the Gogi 2-ri and Amusement Park Entrance bus stops.

Target locations were selected by comprehensively considering bus ridership demand, bus operation frequency, public transportation dependency, and other factors, focusing primarily on inter-regional bus routes connecting nearby cities.

To efficiently manage the information boards at each bus stop, the city established a virtualized server system at the Yongin Advanced Transportation Center and upgraded its operating programs.

Previously, it was difficult to provide bus arrival information at terminal or near-terminal bus stops, such as Purgio in Sanyang Village, Choudang Village 3 Complex, and Choudang High School in Giheung-gu. However, through this upgrade, the city can now analyze previously collected data and provide bus arrival information at these locations.

The city's installation of digital bus information boards follows its final selection as a project site in the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's "Metropolitan Bus Information System Construction Project" in 2023, which was jointly proposed with Hwaseong City. With the 400 million won in national budget secured through the project selection, the city added an additional 1 billion won in municipal budget and launched the project in June last year.

A city official stated, "We have installed digital bus information boards to provide convenient transit information from urban areas with high passenger volume to rural areas with longer intervals between buses and higher transit dependency. Going forward, we will make active use of the advanced transportation system to further enhance public transportation convenience for residents."