On January 15 Valladolid’s bus company (Autobuses Urbanos de Valladolid: AUVASA) announced the completion of the bus-stop information-panel renewal plan, a project carried out by GMV, developer of the advanced fleet management system in which these new panels have been included.

This project has involved complete replacement of forty bus-stop-shelter panels by bigger ones, bringing in LED technology and 4G communications while improving the space available at the bus-stops. Elsewhere, the LCD panels have been replaced by LEDs, improving visibility and energy consumption parameters. The control equipment has been upgraded to next-generation 4G communications and the panel supports have been improved, both at bus-stop shelters and in the free-standing masts or bus-stop poles.

The most important new feature in this renewal scheme is an audio announcement system allowing visually impaired people to listen to the display-panel text information by means of a specially designed radio-frequency Ciberpass system to reproduce this information audibly.