uwto.org Glossary

alighting: Exiting a transit vehicle
boarding: Entering a transit vehicle.
bus driver: See bus operator.
bus operator: A person who drives/operates a bus. Opening the door for passengers.
busway: A diesel-powered bus, operating along a road right of way.
Greater Winnipeg Transit Commission: Existed from approx. March 1953 – December 31, 1960
Headway: The difference, in time, between two transit vehicles of the same route name.
loop: Used as a terminus and a turning point for transit vehicle.
LRT: A mode of rapid transit where a transit vehicle rides along a railbed.
Navigo: Web based trip planner. Based on IBM AS/400 software.
Norman D. Wilson: A transit engineer who helped design the TTC subway during the 1950s. He had been hired on by the Greater Winnipeg Transit Commission to design a similar rapid transit system for Winnipeg.
T-Man: An electrically lit signpost displaying the current intersection.
tail track: A track extension beyond the end of a rapid transit line to make it easier to construct extensions in the future.
tele-bus: Phone-based information for retrieving latest bus schedules. It's based on an IBM AS/400 Model 720.
transfer: A paper document allowing a passenger free roam on the transit system, until the expiry time.
W.A.T.S.: A major transportation plan for metropolitan Winnipeg, written during the 1960s. It recommended several freeways and a 5.4 mile (8.68 km) underground subway.
Winnipeg: A metropolitan region, in the province of Manitoba, with a population of approximately 680,000 people.
Winnipeg Electric Street Railway Company: Existed from ? – 1924.
WT: Short form for Winnipeg Transit