A system for better communication during different crises. People always complain when things go wrong and the authorities in charge don't give away information, or give it away in such a way that all people involved don't receive it.
I.e. my girlfriend was on a train recently, which stopped for one hour outside of the station. No information was given until nearer the end of that. Why?
A system that everyone could use: the first responders could provide information on the situtation. Editors could then format this for customers / people affected. Some other system could deliver it (something like iBeacons?).
Trains in the UK are a nightmare when they're delayed.
I spent seven years working from home, making a trip from my home to company-HQ every few weeks. The train information board would also say "Train Late: ETA $(current time + 1 minute)".
Even if they knew in advance it had to be 30+ minutes behind schedule it would always say something like "Time: 13:30, ETA: 13:32" or so. Then keep updating. It meant you never had any idea if the train would genuinely turn up in a minute, or if it would still be lying to you an hour later.
I did seem to suffer from bad luck on the days I travelled, due to land-slides, rain, wind, or power-failures on various parts of the line. I usually kept waiting, but some days you could tell there would be no useful service. (i.e. They'd offer buses instead of trains, and that meant a 2 hour trip down, a working day, and a 2 hour trip back was just written off because a bus might take 4-5 hours to make one leg of the journey.)
I.e. my girlfriend was on a train recently, which stopped for one hour outside of the station. No information was given until nearer the end of that. Why?
A system that everyone could use: the first responders could provide information on the situtation. Editors could then format this for customers / people affected. Some other system could deliver it (something like iBeacons?).