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 [...]
5 Ways to Reduce the Risks Associated with Illegal Passing
Illegal passing is a reckless act that puts innocent lives at risk. Children trying to get to or from school are vulnerable to distracted drivers who break the law by not stopping for a school bus. Just a couple of weeks ago, in North Carolina, two children narrowly escaped [...]
How School Buses Safely Transport Students, And How We Can Help Prevent Injury
Each weekday, around 25 million students in the US hop on a school bus to get to school. School buses provide 70 times more chances of safe arrival to school, compared to a personal car.[1] Even so, there is still an annual average of 128 school transportation-related fatalities.[2] That [...]
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 [...]
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.) [...]
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 [...]
What you need to know about video surveillance solution hard drives and media storage options
So, you’re looking to add video surveillance to vehicles and there are so many things to consider. Below we attempt to demystify some of those things.Video Surveillance StorageIt’s well understood you need a place to store all the video and audio your system will capture, and more storage provides more [...]
NASDPTS says the Number of School Bus Stop Arm Violations is Increasing
We say, the Technology to Decrease these Numbers is Real and Available Today. The staggering statistics associated with the number of stop arm violations occurring each day are hard to fathom. The NASDPTS 2019 School Bus Industry Survey identified an average of 95,000 illegal passes across 39 states in [...]
School Bus Stop Arm Violations Resulting in Child Injury and Fatality
Driving the numbers down using technology and a completely new approach Up until now, we’ve faced student safety outside the school bus as we always have. We’ve focused on educating passing motorists on how and when it’s safe and legal to pass a school bus. We’ve relied on drivers [...]
Ramp up your Fleet Safety and Efficiency Game with Wireless Downloading
We were recently joined by Don Carter, Director of Transportation for Port St. Lucie Public Schools in Florida, for an informative webinar featuring hints, tips, and best practices for implementing wireless video downloading for school bus fleets. Bob Burke, Account Executive for Seon, explained how the hardware, software, and [...]
Child Injury and Fatality from School Bus Stop-Arm Violations
How do we really drive the numbers down? We need to face some very hard facts. We are becoming more and more distracted. Our children are, and will continue to be in harm’s way, as we add more cars, more drivers and distraction to our daily lives: unless we [...]
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 [...]
Turn the Danger Zone into a Safety Zone – See New Safe Fleet Solutions at NAPT
Visit us in booth 629 to learn how we can help you change the danger zone into a safety zone. We’re excited about this year’s NAPT Annual Conference and Tradeshow and looking forward to continuing conversations about Danger Zone Safety. NAPT Executive Director, Mike Martin’s recent email to NAPT [...]
Back-to-School Safety Zone Checklist
360 degrees of Safety around the School Bus 64% of the school-age pedestrians fatally injured in school-transportation-related crashes in the last decade were struck by the school buses themselves. (NHTSA, Traffic Safety Fact Sheet, 2017) Two deadly contributors to these preventable accidents are: 1) Driver Distraction and 2) Vehicle [...]
