The Future of Transit and how it will affect Everyone (Part 1 of 4)
It’s not that often you can make this kind of blanket statement about a service. Seon recently attended the Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA), New Mobility Symposium and given [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Six Low Cost Ideas for School Bus Driver Appreciation
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 [...]
Top 3 Reasons to Wirelessly Download Bus Surveillance Video
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 [...]
5 Things That Should Be on Your Back-to-school Safety Checklist
Are you safety-ready for the new school year? The end of August and the start of September are quite a hectic time for transportation departments and school administration. Summer [...]
Video Integration: The Secret Sauce
Originally published in BusRide Magazine Technology plays an important part in transit operations today. Passenger counting, electronic ticketing, CAD/AVL systems, video surveillance, wireless, and even onboard Wi-Fi help transit [...]
Hybrid or NVR: Making the right choice for a surveillance upgrade
On-board video technology is in the midst of an important transition in image quality, or what I like to call a ‘resolution evolution.’ The introduction of the Network Video [...]
Planning for Stop Arm Camera Success
Seon has been providing mobile surveillance systems and fleet management solutions to school districts across North America for almost two decades, and over the years our customers have cited [...]
Revealed: 3 Little Known Uses for Bus Video
Video surveillance systems have become a valuable tool for transportation teams all over the world, helping solve difficult situations on board and improving passenger safety. Most of the time [...]
5 Best Practices for Reviewing Your Video Surveillance Footage
Having the right video at your fingertips when you need it can solve a lot of problems: exonerate an innocent driver from a false accusation, address discipline and bullying [...]
Driver Recruitment and Retention Best Practices: Switzer-Carty Transportation
90% of school districts and school transportation companies across North America have experienced a driver shortage. Strict industry regulations, safety concerns, low wages and sometimes even negative public perception [...]