Transforming Transit Safety Inside the Bus and on the Road

Mass transit and fleet operators have a multitude of metrics they need to constantly monitor to best ensure passenger and driver safety and ensure that every vehicle is built to deliver maximum profitability. In addition to the fixed cost of scheduled maintenance and repairs, the invariable costs associated with daily operations can be considerable – especially in relation to unforeseen liabilities that can be incurred from physical damage to vehicles or worse, to passengers and personnel due to accidents or incidents.

Fortunately for management personnel, there’s a plethora of devices available to help proactively manage scheduled vehicle maintenance, which is a best practice to help preserve the lifespan of vehicles and establish budgets for anticipated maintenance. It’s the unanticipated expenses that keep managers awake at night, as they can wreak havoc on budgets and profitability.

The challenge is to proactively manage unforeseen events to help mitigate liabilities before they happen and/or minimize their impact through immediate remediation.

The first step in this process is to identify, as best possible, the liabilities that may/can occur on any given day the fleet is in operation. This includes accidents, traffic violations, excessive traffic and detoured routes, unruly passengers, unauthorized passengers and more.

Solutions to help detect and monitor unforeseen events like video cameras and GPS tracking devices have been available for some time, but typically require custom implementation and lack the integration required to transform them into a cohesive system capable of generating insightful data in real-time.

IDIS Americas’ innovative I-Mobile solution addresses all these issues in a truly integrated solution, allowing managers to proactively monitor events inside vehicles while monitoring all physical aspects of the vehicle’s movements. A purpose-built transit solution, the I-Mobile software platform offers live monitoring of all interior and exterior video. Comprehensive GPS tracking of each vehicle’s specific location, speed and route is also transmitted and tracked in real-time on intuitive graphics on I-Mobile’s intelligent software platform. All video and short-term data can be transmitted live for centralized monitoring with all long-term data recorded on-board each vehicle for archiving and detailed data analysis with automatic back-up. Review all the specifics on I-Mobile here.

I-Mobile provides with access to valuable insights and data, empowering them to optimize service levels and driver performance while safeguarding passengers and employees. It enables the ability to monitor every vehicle‘s surroundings at any time, and in any location, providing unparalleled situational awareness and proactive incident management that drives higher levels of transportation services, resource management and cost-efficiency.