Improve Safety and Response to Emergencies — Live-Streaming Inside School Buses
As millions of students in North America travel on a school bus each day, securing their safety is a serious matter. In recent years, school districts have been adopting and implementing the latest, advanced technology features on their school bus fleets to enhance the safety of their riders. From [...]
Cameras on the bus, oh what a sight. . . – a Poem
Written by: Justin Malcom This poem written by our very own Justin Malcolm, Director of Product Management with help from ChatGPT. A fun reminder of the importance of cameras on school buses Camera safety technology is the foundational safety layer every school bus fleet needs [...]
Advocating for a Smart Fleet Management System (Part 1 of 3)
Written by: Don Diego Padilla II A waste industry fleet management veteran for over 30 years, Don Diego Padilla II is Vice President of Sales at Safe Fleet Waste & Recycling, where he spearheads business and customer development activities. Written by: Don Diego Padilla II A waste [...]
4 Technologies that Can Help Support Transit Agencies in the Event of Liability Claims
Liability claims are a transit agency’s worst nightmare. They can impact daily efficiency, and reputation— and they cost a lot of money. Just last year, the New Jersey Transit agency reached a settlement for two million dollars after one of its buses struck a pedestrian[1]. You only need to [...]
How ALPR Devices Help Mitigate the Impact of Crime in Your Commumity
A vehicle owner's worst nightmare is to have their car stolen. In the US, a vehicle is stolen every 33 seconds. The national vehicle theft rate is 268.2 cars per 100,000 population, which is currently rising[1]. It is also expensive! Vehicle theft is one of the costliest crimes for [...]
Get Increased Ridership and Faster Rides with AI
What if your agency could automatically issue violation notices to vehicle owners who block dedicated bus lanes? Violators would think twice before blocking a lane, making bus routes more effective and getting commuters to their destinations quicker! Living with Traffic Congestion Cities in the US are experiencing a traffic congestion [...]
How to Use Technology to Help Increase Passenger Safety and Reduce Crime on Public Transit
The COVID pandemic has had a huge impact on our society. Transportation is no exception. The number of people traveling by public transit has dropped dramatically since the pandemic began. In fact, in some cities, it's down to half of pre-2019 figures[1]. Most North American cities have not bounced [...]
5 Things Every Rail Car Needs to Create a Safer Environment
The moment we get to the train station and tap/swipe our cards at the turnstile, we enter a controlled environment. This is the result of different elements that make stations and trains as safe as possible for millions of daily passengers. HD camera systems, carefully designed pathways, display screens, [...]
How One Vehicle Can Expose Agencies to Liability, Brand Damage
Video surveillance systems can help support an agency by ensuring supervisors operate their vehicles in a safe manner and conduct themselves with diplomacy and tact. Your fleet isn’t fully protected if a portion of it isn’t safeguarded with video surveillance. Whether you operate one non-revenue/supervisor vehicle or several, the importance [...]
5 Benefits of Using Video Surveillance for Driver Coaching
Your video surveillance system can be more effective at getting to the root of an issue than a traditional training approach. Bus video is often used for accident reconstruction, defense of false claims, and overall risk mitigation. At a basic level, you want to see exactly what happened so [...]
The Safe Fleet Connected School Bus
The combined value of a significant number of Safe Fleet school bus safety and efficiency solutions have been brought together to form the Safe Fleet Connected School Bus. The stronger together adage is reflected in this Connected Bus, which leverages the strengths of its separate parts resulting in an [...]
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 [...]
Video Surveillance hardware Country of Origin and the Question of Banned Components
With tariffs, trade wars and concerns over technology, Safe Fleet has seen an increased level of interest from customers on the topic of video technology country of origin and in particular, those products that are sourced specifically from China. Safe Fleet has been diversifying away from sourcing products from [...]
Safe Fleet Technology Showcased on Capitol Hill during National School Bus Safety Week
More than 15 million illegal school bus passes occurred nation-wide in the 2018 school year and with these numbers came tragic consequences. In October, 2018 one Rochester, Indiana family lost three children in just one illegal passing incident. The deaths of the siblings prompted U.S. Reps Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) [...]
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 [...]
How to Keep Kids Safe From Illegal School Bus Passing Accidents
Roads are becoming busier and distractions more complex, causing students to be more at risk than ever before. A 2019 NASDPTS survey identified 95,000 illegal passes across 39 states in a single day; that's over 17 million near misses in one school year. It’s not surprising that 57% of [...]
