. Pollution, over crowding, long commutes and traffic jams. Many cities have not had the planning to put in the infrastructure to combat many of these issues in the form of a healthy public transport system but the ones that do often find that people are giving public transport the miss.
There are many reasons that public transport systems like buses make great sense. Study after study has shown that public transport systems are easy on the environment and from a pollution per person per kilometre stand point they beat even the most efficient personal transport quite handily. Many modern bus systems take this advantage even further with buses that use alternative fuels like compressed natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas. Some cites have bus systems that run partly or entirely on electricity. Buses not only cut pollution, they are also more economical for the users than using personal transport due to their high efficiency. Fuel prices may keep heading north but buses will always remain easier on the pocket than personal automobiles no matter what kind of fuel they use.
The reasons why many people who ought to be using the bus systems in a lot of modern cities but are not actually doing so, are manifold. There is not enough awareness about the bus services. Their services, schedules and costs are unknown by many prospective customers. Bus shelters solve this with modern displays that not only show routes and timings but even receive and display real time information about bus movements via wireless networks. The other thing keeping many bus services from taking off is the lack of information about where they stop and the absence of protection from the elements at these locations. A well designed bus shelter promotes usage of bus services because it makes it readily apparent where the buses stop and provides a clean, well lit and safe place for people to wait for the bus.
Bus shelters are cheap and easy to install and the best part of them is that civic authorities can quickly recoup their investment very shortly and thereafter these shelters become an endless source of income for any authority. Selling advertising spaces on them not only covers the small expenses of their upkeep but also creates a revenue stream that can be depended on to buffer your city finances.