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

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Three Reasons You Need a Bus Video Surveillance Policy

Three Reasons You Need a Bus Video Surveillance Policy

School Bus
Video surveillance systems are a great tool for ensuring student and driver safety on school buses.  But having cameras installed on your buses without a well-defined video surveillance policy is a recipe for disaster, leaving your school district open to potential lawsuits or privacy complaints. Here are three reasons why you need to publish a video surveillance policy today: # 1 – The policy ensures the balance between security and an individual's right to privacy. While the installation of bus cameras helps increase employee and student safety, the recorded footage may contain sensitive information and should be treated with care. Transportation managers can face a lot of requests to view the video to track student behavior in a recent bullying incident or provide evidence to t
How Route Optimization Can Make Your School Bus Fleet ‘Greener’

How Route Optimization Can Make Your School Bus Fleet ‘Greener’

School Bus, Uncategorized
Even though one school bus replaces 36 cars on the road, student transportation systems contribute to global climate change and are still a target for air pollution reductions. This puts a lot of pressure on schools to adopt “green” business practices and decrease their fleet’s carbon footprint. Efficient route planning and vehicle tracking tools can help significantly improve the situation and even lower operating costs, while helping save the planet. (more…)

Benefits of GIS Routing for School Bus Transportation

Expert Advice Series, School Bus
With the development and increased affordability of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, transportation professionals all over the world discovered and embraced this tool for effective planning, and managing of transportation systems, that can solve complex route problems in minutes and dramatically increase efficiency. Today we asked our GIS expert, project manager Peter Klemm how GIS applications and software can help significantly optimize school bus fleet management and result in tangible savings. (more…)