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Users can beam this itinerary to their cell phone and request a text message notification when the bus is due to arrive.

People can also use the station as an information center by uploading messages, images or announcements to a software-moderated bulletin board.

"It becomes an outpost for local authorities to reach out to communities in the city," said Kristian Kloeckl, an urban furniture design consultant and also Ph.D. student at the University Institute of Architecture Venice.

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Though Kloeckl also wondered how the public will respond.

"If you have a wall in a middle of a city where everybody can write what they want, what are they going to write? Will it turn out to be something useful or something annoying?" he asked. "It's not clear."

Biderman and his team hope that their presentation at the World Expo will raise interest from officials in other cities and spread the trend of the Adaptable Bus Stop.

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