Informational messages display system for mass transit systems and method for same

An informational message display system for displaying informational messages communicated from message sources by wireless apparatus to a plurality of display devices which each display the informational messages in a selected sequence, comprising:

• at least one message source for creating a plurality of message records, each message record including a message, a cap code which identifies one or more selected display devices to receive the message, a pin code which identifies one of a plurality of message memory slots associated with each display device to receive and store the message, and at least one display characteristic for the message;
• each one of the plurality of display devices having a storage means comprised of a plurality of message memory slots for storing a plurality of communicated messages and the display characteristics associated with each of said communicated messages, each display device having a transceiver which receives and stores each communicated message and the display characteristics based on the cap code and the pin code, and each display device having a visual display screen for displaying the stored messages based on the display characteristics for each of said stored messages;
• means for communicating each of the message records from the message source to at least one selected display based on the cap code;
• and
• a controller associated with each display device for displaying on the visual display screen the plurality of messages based on the display characteristics associated with each message in a selected sequence.