Compania de Transport Public Cluj Napoca SA (CTP Cluj Napoca) is serving the inhabitants in the second largest city of Romania, Cluj-Napoca. During 2015 Cluj-Napoca has been awarded the title “European Youth Capital”, through its appealing academic institutions, culture life, and growing industries and business centres. One aspect of the award is to facilitate the everyday life for young people, in the long run. Accordingly, CTP Cluj Napoca has decided to invest in a modern information system for their 50 new buses produced by Solaris and IVECO.
The buses have a passenger infotainment system via 20” TFT displays, where the traffic operators, at any time, can publish messages of importance. Besides, all buses are equipped with video surveillance, to increase the safety for both passengers and drivers. Thoreb’s passenger counting system ensures improved basis for future planning and reliable travelling statistics. Thereby CTP Cluj Napoca gets clear and trustworthy reports, as often as needed, based on different search criteria.
With Thoreb’s system installed in the buses, the public transport in Cluj-Napoca has become even more appealing for its citizens.
Scania’s subsidiary SOE Bus Production Oy (former Lahden Autokori) in Lahtis has been Thoreb’s customer since 2001, when they introduced ELSY, Thoreb’s intelligent E/E architecture system, as their standard electrical system in the city bus SCALA.
The ambition is to produce ten buses each week in Lahtis, which in total will be 500 buses during 2015. All development of the bus model OmniExpress takes place in Lahtis, even though some of the buses are produced in Slupsk, Poland. All OmniExpress buses produced in Lahtis are designed with Thoreb’s intelligent electrical architecture, including a number of K30-nodes and our vehicle computer C74. Since the Lahtis factory is specialized in customer specific design, and short series, ELSY contributes in minimizing the cost, by providing extensive flexibility. For instance, the same harness and ELSY software can be used in buses with different accessories installed, by simply changing some node parameters.
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