Posted on 14th Jun 2010 @ 12:10 PM

 Junxion Complete Transit Solutions customer's are featured in the  February/March 2007 of Metro-Magazine. AC Transit, King County Trasit and Capital Metro talk about both the turn-key installad solutions and the self install solutions created by Junxion Complete.

When it comes to luring prospective customers out of their cars, more and more agencies are taking the Wi-Fi route — equipping their vehicles to enable passengers to wirelessly access the Internet.

Oakland, Calif.-based AC Transit equipped about 80 MCI coaches from its TransBay fleet with Wi-Fi service. The fleet carries AC's ideal demographic from Oakland's Alameda and Contra Costa counties across three bridges, the Bay into San Francisco, the San Mateo, where companies such as Oracle and Visa are located, and the Dumbarton to Stanford University.

Like AC Transit, Seattle's King County Metro Transit also has a built-in set of choice-rider routes that service the University of Washington and Microsoft. Just to be sure, Larry Calter, IT manager for King County, says the agency tested Wi-Fi service on both long and short routes.

Capital Metro, like the UTA, also tested the network coverage of several providers to see what would work best for the system before deciding which to use. Du Charme adds that just because it chose one provider to cover a certain area does not necessarily mean that the agency would use that same provider for future installations on other routes.

The cost for transit vehicle Wi-Fi at this point is relatively cheap, averaging somewhere between $1,000 and $2,000 per bus to install, as well as a monthly access card fee of around $50 to $60.

Metro-Magazine

February/March 2007

by Alex Roman, Associate Editor

Full Article: Metro-Magazine