All stops along the Ambedkar Nagar-Moolchand stretch of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor would have a passenger information system to keep passengers informed on the status of their bus. DIMTS, in charge of operating the corridor, plans to set up the GPS-based system at all bus stops along the 5.6-km stretch.

The plan is to set up an electronic map of the route to show each bus’s position along the course, senior DIMTS officials said. “This map would have a blinker that would keep moving along the route,” an official said. “We plan to monitor buses on the route through GPS technology to keep track on their movement.”

Another option to keep waiting passengers informed is to install display boards to flash the bus route number expected to arrive next.

Officials said introducing passenger information system is an essential part of an “intelligent” transport system that the bus corridor is expected to bring in.

“Endless hours of waiting, lack of information and a bad environment add to what we call passenger anxiety,” the DIMTS official said. “The bus corridor has been designed to address all these issues by providing spacious and convenient bus stops, signages, segregated lanes, and now this information system.”

The first stretch of the corridor — between Ambedkar Nagar and Moolchand Hospital — is expected to take off by April 1.

“There are five bus routes that follow this particular stretch, and about 150 other routes that pass through it,” the official said. “So we will try to incorporate an information system for the five routes initially.”