What a few years ago would have sounded like science fiction is already a visible reality in Barcelona's modernized public transport. With the aim of offering "more dynamic and service" information, Transportes Metropolitanos de Barcelona (TMB) has been carrying out for weeks the implementation of new flat screens and projectors, as well as the introduction in the testing phase of its information channel, now renamed MouTv.
The completion of the previous concession of the Metro Canal has led to a complete change of technology and content, indicate TMB sources. To the new flat screens on buses, trains and platforms are added the high-contrast projections on the platform walls that separate tracks, at points such as Passeig de Gràcia (L-2) and Roquetes (L-3), although they are being extended to other stations.
The broadcast of the new schedule, with more information on waiting times (metro) and details on stops and connections (bus), can be seen in tests on 21 buses, one of the trains that runs on the L-3 and the aforementioned projectors. Its content is still limited, but soon it will add much more information, indicate the same sources, such as possible incidents, alterations of the service, mobility tips, news, practical data, advertising and others, add the same sources.
The new channel is easily distinguishable by its modern graphics and nomenclature. TMB plans that if all goes well MouTV will end the year reaching 24 platforms, 27 trains and 80 buses, along with four points of attention to the citizen, adding a total of 1,236 points of diffusion.
The advances in TMB's internal video broadcasting coincide, coincidentally, with the renewal of traditional advertising posters. In some corridors of the center, large screens of JC Decaux are already beginning to be visible that allow moving ads, with four broadcasts. Seen in Elperiodico.com
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