HRT to spend $1.2M to improve bus scheduling

By Debbie Messina
The Virginian-Pilot
© August 28, 2009

NORFOLK

Hampton Roads Transit’s board has approved a $1.2 million contract to upgrade bus-scheduling computer software.

The upgrade, approved Thursday, will increase the agency’s efficiency in scheduling and dispatching buses and will handle scheduling for light-rail trains when they come on line next year. The contract includes implementation, training and five years of technical support.

HRT and Norfolk are partnering to build a 7.4-mile light-rail line from the city line at Newtown Road to the medical complex west of downtown.