The first dynamic passenger information in the district of Starnberg went into operation on Monday at the monastery car park in Andechs.
In the future, it will show bus passengers to the minute when a line will arrive.
All 200 stops are to follow by 2025.
Andechs
– The bus line 958 (Andechs-Tutzing) was the pilot line when the hourly service was introduced in the district.
And now she is there again when the next innovation takes effect in the district.
On Monday afternoon, District Administrator Stefan Frey, Andechs' Mayor Georg Scheitz and MVV Managing Director Dr.
Bernd Rosenbusch enters the first Dynamic Passenger Information (DPI) in the circle at the “Andechs, Kloster” stop.
The screen should show in real time when the next bus is coming, whether it is late and – ideally – why.
Lines 928, 951 and 958 cross at Klosterhalt. The digital display is mainly known from train stations.
The 958 may not like being the center of attention for nothing.
MVV boss Rosenbusch lives in the district and got on in Machtlfing to get to the official inauguration in Andechs - visibly pleased with the good utilization of the line, which is used by commuters and tourists alike, just like the 951 (Starnberg-Herrsching) .
Rosenbusch called them "our premium line".
It is not uncommon for four buses to stop at the monastery at the same time, said Georg Scheitz - proud that the monastery village was selected as the pilot community.
The "roll-out phase" begins with the inauguration on Monday, which means that by 2025 all 200 stops in the district should be equipped with DPI.
"18 stops this year and next," said District Administrator Frey, including in Gauting, Gilching, Weßling, Krailling, Tutzing, Herrsching, Seefeld and Inning.
While the MVV provides the digital infrastructure, the district will bear the costs, which will ultimately amount to around two million euros.
The municipalities pay for the expenses incurred for the operation.
"80 percent of the acquisition costs are funded by the Free State," stressed Frey.
Installing a medium-sized two-sided advertisement like the one in Andechs costs around 15,000 euros – including civil engineering work.
"There are also 65-inch displays," explained Volker Grunow from the supporting engineering firm BLIC, but smaller ones that can also be solar-powered.
What they all have in common is that they are fed with data from the MVV center at the Isartor.
The real time of all buses is transmitted there, after which the forecast data is transmitted to the displays via mobile radio.
Rosenbusch assumes that this will work much more precisely in the district than in Munich, where the five minutes displayed can sometimes take a very long time.
The displays are also equipped with pushbutton switches for visually impaired people that look like the well-known traffic light pushbuttons.
In this case, however, the advertisement information is announced at the push of a button.
This push button already exists in Andechs, although the bus stop is not yet equipped with a guidance system for the blind and is therefore difficult to identify.
The conversion is planned, but not yet included in the current budget, admitted Scheitz.
Until then, an acoustic signal leads to the handle, the rhythmic click of which is easily perceptible for sensitized people, explained project manager Günter Brühl.
The volume of this click and also the announcement could definitely be screwed up, Grunow added with a view to the immediate vicinity, because: "At night it can be annoying under certain circumstances."