10.1177/0047287504268239 ARTICLENOVEMBER 2004JOURNAL OF TRAVEL RESEARCH The Convergence of Transportation, Information Technology, and Visitor Experience at Acadia National Park

ponents were deployed to help visitors travel around Mount Desert Island and in Acadia National Park. Real-time travel information was collected and integrated with Island Ex-plorer buses and disseminated to visitors via an automated annunciator that transmitted an audio message and dis-played the next bus stop on an electronic sign within the bus. Also, electronic signs displayed real-time departure times of the next Island Explorer bus at bus stops. Visitors could also obtain real-time parking conditions at two popular destina-tions in the park. Using data from surveys of visitors fro