Carmelit, Haifa's subway, and the Paskol Advanced Technologies company are currently launching an innovative mobile service, which displays in real time the location of Carmelit and the upcoming travel times. The service, which is unique of its kind in Israel, allows the passenger to plan the time of arrival at the Carmelite platform with maximum accuracy.
The cellular service also contributed to the shortening of the Carmelite's travel times:
Even before the launch of the service to the traveling public, the mobile site had already improved the Carmelite's travel times. The CEO of the Carmelite, Avishai Hadar, says that for him the cellular service is a management tool that allows him to monitor the service level of the Carmelite at any time and from anywhere, and already during the running period of the service, travel times have been shortened by 15% and are about 8 minutes for the entire route At Hadar's initiative, the service level of the Carmelite is displayed in real time (maximum waiting time and end-to-end travel time) in the mobile application for public information and in a transparent manner.
The new service is an initiative of the Carmelite management with Haifa's Paskol Advanced Technologies company, the largest and oldest company in the field of cellular internet in Israel. Access to the service is possible through the portals of the cellular operators or by sending an SMS with the word "Carmelit" to the number 9911.
The Carmelite is an old Haifa institution that transports about 600 passengers every year between downtown and the center of Carmel, without traffic jams, air pollution and at the price of a normal city trip. At any given moment there are two Carmelites on their way, one going up from the downtown area to the center of Carmel and the other going down in the opposite direction. The Carmelite was first established in 1959 and operated in the city for 27 years until the system became obsolete. In 1992, the Carmelite was renovated by the Haifa municipality and has been operating continuously ever since. The renovated train includes four air-conditioned and modern carriages and is controlled by a control room located at the upper Gan Ham station.
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Why not tell the truth? After all, you and I pay the tens of millions in losses that it costs to operate the Carmelite?
Publicity notices are published about some esoteric technological improvement or some stupid device at Haifa's traffic lights, each time inventions upon inventions
When we all know what really needs to be fixed and improved in the city. Instead of an efficient bus service and where people will have to change two buses
In a 10-minute drive that today takes half an hour, they throw in an article about some gimmick in Carmelit? Long live Rabak! Desperation from the residents
In Haifa, how much crap and disorder they are fed, and how much pollution they are fed, and how much property tax they are fed, they will be silent.
I'm starting to think that Haifa's problem is the silent Haifaites on the way to the old people's homes and not just the failed city management!
[quote="guest":1tcozf3n]Most of the Carmelite users are tourists. For them the travel times are not important.
Until they build free parking lots near the Carmelit stations and bus stops near the Carmelit stations, there is no chance that they will use it.
Rabak, why cut everything?
Most of the Carmelite users are tourists. For them the travel times are not important.
Until they build free parking lots near the Carmelit stations and bus stops near the Carmelit stations, there is no chance that they will use it.