Rex Huffman, manager of AU's Transit Services, demonstrates the new TransLoc Transit Visualization System, which began operating on all AU transit buses April 23.

The new Transit Visualization System allows AU students to view the buses in motion and the routes in real time on a detailed map displayed on the Internet or a Web-enabled cellular phone.

The new GPS-based system allows riders to view all the transit routes at once or to isolate certain routes to view only one at a time.

Huffman said transit officials looked at many different GPS systems but the TransLoc technology provided the fastest relay time. Buses appear on the map within three to five seconds of their physical location.

The Tiger Transit system currently runs 41 buses on 20 different routes. During the 2006 calendar year, the system transported approximately 1.8 million riders.

Tiger Transit is the first transit system in the state of Alabama to employ TransLoc's GPS technology. Auburn joins Emory University, North Carolina State University and Yale University as the only institutions in the country to use TransLoc.