High Prairie School Division No. 48 transports 2,100 students per day for 16 schools. Located in High Prairie, AB, the school division supports a diverse population of 23,000 people with rich cultures and backgrounds. Every day the division’s buses travel over 8,900 km to bring students to their schools from various locations. To ensure student safety on the road and at the bus stop, High Prairie decided to invest in video surveillance systems with wireless video downloading and stop arm cameras.
Harry Davis, Director of Transportation explains, “Managing student behavior on the bus can be quite a challenge for drivers since they also have to concentrate on the road ahead to reach the destination safely. Before purchasing school bus cameras, if an incident happened on the bus, we had a lot of “he said – she said” arguments and no evidence to prove who is wrong or right. We also had accusations of driver misconduct and recklessness with no record for validation. Even though the drivers created a manual report of what happened it just meant their word against the student’s. The best way to get credible evidence was to get video surveillance for our fleet, so we started looking at different options when we found out about a solution from Seon.”
The presence of video cameras and stop-arm cameras on the bus allowed the transportation team to solve multiple problems:
- Provide credible evidence for faster incident investigations and stop-arm violations
- Improve compliance with bus rules from both drivers and students
- Improve student and driver safety.
Davis says, “With the video surveillance and wireless solution from Seon, we are confident we have video evidence when we need it. As a result, we have more time to develop our fleet and train our drivers while focusing on student safety.”
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