From Iconic Yellow Bus to Cloud-Powered Marvel: The Connected School Bus
The yellow school bus is an icon of transportation. For students, a symbol of learning and socializing, for ex-students (adults) an emblem of safety and future potential. Throughout the years, this vehicle has undergone improvements to maintain its status as the safest vehicle on the road. And in today's [...]
Improve Your Fleet Maintenance With An Innovative Vehicle Inspection Program
Effective fleet maintenance plays a crucial role in ensuring safe and efficient operations. One key requirement of fleet maintenance is conducting regular driver vehicle inspection reports (DVIR), both before and after trips. However, traditional approaches relying on paper forms or inflexible electronic tools often lead to inefficiencies, missed maintenance issues, [...]
Advantages of GIS Routing for School Bus Transportation
Written by: Kerry Somerville Senior Product Manager, Safe Fleet A GIS Certified Professional with over 35 years of experience specializing in school bus routing. Easy access to mapping applications, which rely on Geographic Information System (GIS) technology has made our lives easier. So, what is [...]
Peace of Mind: How and Why Tracking Students on School Buses Enables Enhanced Safety
The tracking of students on school buses is all about safety and parent empowerment. To do their jobs properly, school districts need a reliable way to communicate student and bus data to authorities during emergency situations and to parents for everyday peace-of-mind. From a safety perspective, boarding a school [...]
Safe Fleet Helps Save Lives, Prevent Injury, and Boost Fleet Productivity
Watch our awesome new video and meet Safe Fleet, the Smart Fleet Safety Company – we think you’ll want to get to know us even better. Another day, another chance to achieve your goals, go to work or school, run errands, or simply enjoy your daily routines. But an [...]
COVID-19 Student Contact Tracing
Know each bus, each route and the contact details of students at risk – in real timeContact tracing information is integral to providing student safety in today’s back-to-school environment. So integral that two international studies have each suggested that COVID testing and Contact Tracing are the key to reopening schools [...]
Safe Fleet School Bus Product Roadmap
Our game-changing Predictive Stop Arm™ (PSA) continues to protect students from the risk of stop arm violations, but will now offer enhanced system integration. We are also building more robust AVL/Fleet Management software with added features such as turn-by-turn software that will redirect based on real-time traffic and road [...]
Why Cloud Computing might be right for you
Shopping for a video surveillance system and wondering whether a cloud-based system is right for you? Or you already have an on-premise system and are wondering about a possible transition to the cloud. This one image succinctly summarizes why cloud computing might be right for you now, and why [...]
6 Challenges Fleet Managers Solve Using Wireless Downloading
The more often you remove and reinstall media, the more you run the risk of damaging the media. Can you accept that you might find yourself without video backup when you need it most? But not all fleets that use video surveillance systems choose wireless downloading as part of [...]
3 Free Tools (And One Low-Cost One) Small School Districts Should Consider to Manage Bus Fleets
We love talking with transportation staff at small school districts. Sometimes our calls with Transportation Directors get interrupted because of the many hats these Directors wear. A recent example: the Transportation Director had to end a call to start a troublesome lawnmower. At another district, we discussed routing plans [...]
A New Approach to tackling School Bus Route Operations
The safety of students and drivers underscores every step a school bus transportation department makes. What happens outside the bus is just as important as what happens inside — often more so as the majority of fatalities and injuries happen outside the bus.How does Route Operations Planning factor into the [...]
Moving from Paper to Digital with School Bus Route Planning Software
5 Easy Steps to get School Bus Route Management off your Walls During a weekend with my young nephews, I was surprised to learn that they didn’t know how to hand write in cursive. When I asked why, they answered that they type out their homework on computers, and [...]
The Importance of Real-Time Information for School Bus Fleet Management
In the past technology limitations kept student transportation departments from gaining real-time data about their fleet operations. Today, software can provide immediate insight on what is happening on any vehicle on the road and allow live video streaming from the bus. Those school districts that use fleet management solutions [...]
How Route Optimization Can Make Your School Bus Fleet ‘Greener’
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 [...]
Benefits of GIS Routing for School Bus Transportation
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, [...]
Now Offering Student Tracking
Seon announces the launch of vMax® Trac, an RFID-card based student tracking system that gives school transportation staff real-time information on whether a student is on the bus, missed the bus, or got off at the wrong stop –critical information when a student is missing or a school bus [...]
