PASSENGER INFORMATION BOARDS IN THE TRANSFER CENTER IN MIKOŁÓW

The city of Mikołów has built the interchange next to the railway station. Passengers can easily and comfortably change from train to bus in the direction of Gliwice, Katowice or Tychy. Dysten manufactured, installed and put into operation 6 dynamic passenger information displays in the transfer center, compliant with the GZM Metropolis SDIP standard (Dynamic Passenger Information System in GZM Metropolis).

Mikołów is a city with 40.000 inhabitants in southern Poland, near the Katowice – the capital of the Silesian Voivodeship. Mikołów is within a Silesian metropolitan area populated by about 5,294,000 people – the most densely populated region in Poland.

Passenger dynamic information boards

Double-sided passenger information displays have 6-line matrices. They use amber LEDs with a very long life. Each side of the passenger information board is equipped with a digital clock. Under the current time, DIP boards present information about the line number, direction and real time of departure. In the event of a bus delay, the departure time is recalculated. In the lowest raw, warnings and messages can be displayed – for example, about a course cancellation or a bad weather.

TTS system

There is an illuminated TTS button on the device pole. Pressing it causes reading all displayed information thanks to Text-to-speech (TTS) System. It is a great help for the blind or partially sighted people.

Infrastructure

Next to the transfer center, there is a car park for 200 cars, a shelter for bicycles, and some of the energy needed is provided by photovoltaic systems constituting the roofs of the bus shelters.