{"id":57114,"date":"2012-03-22T12:25:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T16:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=57114"},"modified":"2012-03-26T09:38:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T13:38:28","slug":"shuttle-buses-now-equipped-with-audio-safety-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/03\/shuttle-buses-now-equipped-with-audio-safety-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Shuttle Buses Now Equipped with Audio Safety Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Students<\/a>
Students board a UConn bus. (FJ Gaylor for UConn)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UConn shuttle buses are now equipped with a safety feature called Safe Turn Alert, which \u201ctalks\u201d to pedestrians through the buses\u2019 speakers to notify them when a bus is in the process of making a turn. The feature, which is triggered when a vehicle\u2019s wheels turn past a certain degree, states: \u201cPedestrian: bus is turning\u201d loud enough for those in the immediate area to hear it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it is extremely important that university campuses take the lead in utilizing education and technology to its fullest when it comes to heightening awareness of pedestrians and bicyclists to safety issues around them,\u201d said William Wendt, director of transportation, logistics and parking services at UConn. \u201cIn a day and age when we can become distracted so easily by phones and personal music machines, alerts to 10-ton vehicles entering your personal space should be viewed as a welcome safety precaution.\u201d<\/p>\n

The device also tells bus drivers to look carefully when making a turn.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started using the system this week and have already had an interesting response on Facebook and Twitter,\u201d said Janet Freniere, manager of transportation services for UConn. \u201cWhile some may find it annoying and others may see humor in it, we are confident that it is a very useful tool that will serve its purpose and the pedestrians at UConn well.\u201d<\/p>\n

The program began on March 19. Freniere said that the University is still adjusting the volume of the device on certain buses to ensure it is at the correct level. There are as many as 13 UConn shuttle buses operating on the Storrs campus on weekdays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Safe Turn Alert’ notifies pedestrians and drivers when a bus is turning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":57130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[39],"class_list":["post-57114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 19:23:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57114"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57286,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57114\/revisions\/57286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/57130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57114"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=57114"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=57114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}