Method, system, and storage medium for integrating vehicle management, transportation and communications functions

A method for coordinating movement of passengers and transit vehicles to carry them comprising:

• obtaining location information indicative of a location of a transit vehicle for carrying passengers using a vehicle location system;
• monitoring said passengers awaiting arrival of said vehicle at a station and generating passenger information indicative of a number of passengers waiting using a passenger status system;
• automatically initiating a course of action relative to said vehicle or said passengers in response to said location information and said passenger information.

A storage medium encoded with machine-readable computer program code for coordinating movement of passengers and transit vehicles to carry them, the storage medium including instructions for causing a computer system to implement:

• obtaining location information from a vehicle location system indicative of a location of a transit vehicle for carrying passengers;
• obtaining passenger information from a passenger status system indicative of a number passengers awaiting arrival of said vehicle at a station;
• automatically initiating a course of action relative to said vehicle or said passengers in response to said location information and said passenger information.