Gautrain
Unlocking the untapped Potential of the Train Commuter
Shamy Naidu, Executive: Transit Ads outlines the benefits and effectiveness of advertising within the train station environment. Advertising within the transit environment and train stations in particular, has come a long way. Cast your mind back to ten years ago when the transit infrastructure in South Africa was given a facelift, started expanding considerably, was significantly improved. The transit environment can now boast world-class facilities and the ability to reach any location in the country no matter how out of the way or rural. We have new bus rapid transport systems including MyCiTi in Cape Town and Rea Vaya in [...]
The need for authentic data in the Transit Environment
Shamy Naidu, Executive: Transit Ads™ outlines the need for authentic data within the realm of out of home advertising, especially when it comes to the transit environment. Over the past few years we’ve been witness to an enormous growth within the transit environment in South Africa. Public Transport nodes and facilities have been upgraded, extended and added to. We’ve seen the inception of the Gautrain, the BRT and IRT systems and overall, most bus, rail and taxi facilities across the country have had a significant makeover. Information and advertising and the way we access it, consume it and share it [...]