Fleet Management and Surveillance Solutions for the Student Transportation and Public Transit Industries

Industry Trends

Apr192018 by Yumi AngNo Comments
Transit Police & Security – Using Technology driven Communications to promote Passenger Safety

Transit Police & Security – Using Technology driven Communications to promote Passenger Safety

Industry Trends, Risk Management, Transit, Video Camera Surveillance
Imagine a loved one riding public transport during their daily commute. Perhaps your mother, father, your child, or a friend. It might be a short hop on a light-rail car or a long journey upon a bus. On most days, it can be a quietly packed ride on the way to work or school, filled with familiar faces. (more…)
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Feb262018 by Yumi AngNo Comments
Six Low Cost Ideas for School Bus Driver Appreciation

Six Low Cost Ideas for School Bus Driver Appreciation

Industry Trends, School Bus
Finding and keeping good school bus drivers is one of the biggest challenges facing school transportation today. 90% of fleets reported a driver shortage in School Bus Fleet Magazine's 2017 annual survey of school district fleets. And driver retention strategies are always a hot topic at every industry conference. But what can you do to keep great employees  in times of budget constraints?  How do you encourage loyalty, reward good driving habits, and appreciate those displaying positive behaviors on a shoestring budget? (more…)
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Feb52018 by Yumi AngNo Comments
Top 3 Reasons to Wirelessly Download Bus Surveillance Video

Top 3 Reasons to Wirelessly Download Bus Surveillance Video

Expert Advice Series, For New Transportation Directors, School Bus, Video Camera Surveillance, Video Management
Yesterday I was running late for a meeting and saved the file I was working on to a USB drive. Or so I thought. Later, when I went to review my work, I discovered it was gone! All those hours of work - wasted. Normally we save files to a network storage drive, which is backed up regularly, to avoid these types of hasty mistakes. Those small text and image-based files are usually easy to retrieve, download and organize. But what about video surveillance files? With one bus, it might not be a big deal to go out to the bus yard and pull the hard drive out of the on-board video recorder to access video footage of an incident. Imagine multiplying the bus count for a larger fleet of 50 or more? Now imagine forgetting to replace the hard drive in that bus recorder and finding out after a...
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