Business View Magazine l January 2023

226 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 12 “As far as our organization goes, we are taking on a huge expansion and upgrade project at our main bus depot. Right now, we have all our bus services at this facility; it’s our administrative and office space, our operations and maintenance location, we have a bus wash on site, and also a driver’s lounge area. We plan to completely redo the interior of the existing main building to add additional office space. We will also add a new bus wash area, and a vault, and improve available space for maintenance. Next year we intend on securing construction for a 2025 completion date, and it will be approximately a $15 million project.” WATA communicates with its partners and communities primarily through social media, including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. The organization is an important distributor of service alerts, event notices, and infrastructure upgrades, Iyanla says. “We have seen about a 40% increase in people coming to visit our The EQUANS’ suite of technology includes Computer Aided Dispatch & Automatic Vehicle Location (CAD/AVL), Automatic Passenger Counting (APC), real-time passenger information and service alerts, onboard Infotainment, NTD reports and performance reporting to improve bus operations efficiencies. For more information contact: kilian.ollivier@equans.com EQUANS is proud to support Williamsburg Area Transit Authority (WATA) and other Virginia Transit Authorities in modernizing their Intelligent Transportation System (ITS).