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 [...]
3 Ways to Boost Passenger Experience and Safety with One Simple System
An Infotainment/Public Display system improves the passenger ride experience. Improving the passenger experience is as important as providing a high-level of on-and off-vehicle safety. Both play critical roles in increasing transit ridership. Safety and ridership go hand in-hand The need for enhanced transit safety grows as city size and ridership [...]
Protecting the Safety of Passengers and Drivers amid a Pandemic
OUR WORLD AND HOW WE OPERATE in it as it relates to public transit is changing rapidly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ridership is significantly down, social distancing requirements and disinfecting guidelines have been introduced, and mandatory passenger masks are required for access to most transit authority buses. Ensuring [...]
Are you getting full value from your fleet safety investment?
Get the most from your investment with preventative maintenance and provide the level of safety and reliability your operation requires – day-in, day-out. Electronic equipment that operates in harsh, ever-changing environments can experience wear and tear over time. Keeping your fleet safety systems in optimum operating condition helps you [...]
Safe Fleet Transit Product Roadmap
We’re building in added security and data protection to our fleet safety solutions, providing incredible system management flexibility, expanding our safety offerings and making the breadth and width of Safe Fleet available for the most comprehensive selection of transit fleet safety solutions. We’re also enhancing our product line with [...]
How Transit Agencies Can Deliver More for their Passengers
Passengers no longer expect their public transit commute to be a matter of simply getting on board at their bus stop, travelling to their destination and then getting off the bus. They expect more. And not just more in general terms for a near-distant future. They expect more today. [...]
COVID-19 and Transit: Our world and how we operate is changing rapidly.
Do you have the resources and the tools to accommodate these changes? Transit agencies will be making a significant amount of changes this year; changes to how they transport passengers, and schedule routes. Does your agency have the tools and systems needed to manage these changes efficiently? Are you [...]
Are your buses COVID clean?
Quickly and Easily Customize your DVIR inspections to incorporate COVID cleaning processes or any other inspection – in Minutes. Until now, the options to help a fleet manage pre and post-trip inspections have been limited. Electronic inspection tools have typically required RFID tags and specialized hardware. They have not [...]
Got Pre and Post Inspection Pain?
Do you have regular pre and post inspection pain? Are you hemorrhaging time and effort on inflexible and complicated checkups? You are not alone. Pain from DVIR/pre and post-trip inspection requirements and the tools and/or manual processes used to meet requirements is a common sentiment in the bus/fleet management [...]
High-Touch Video Surveillance/Fleet Safety System Cleaning and Disinfecting Guidelines in Response to COVID-19
Your Safe Fleet video surveillance/fleet safety systems may be subject to frequent handling/touching and subsequent bacterial and viral contamination. Global health authorities advise that the removal of dirt and impurities can help lower the risk of infection. The use of chemical disinfectant may also help kill bacteria and viruses [...]
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 [...]
We’re Changing Our Name to Safe Fleet
When Safe Fleet acquired Seon in 2014, we were their first video surveillance brand. Six years later we are one of six fleet vehicle video brands, making Safe Fleet the World’s #1 supplier of fleet video solutions. As part of one Safe Fleet video group, we now have access [...]
How Wireless Downloading Can Solve 5 Key Transit Video Surveillance Pain-Points
Transit agencies use video evidence to reduce liability and provide an extra layer of safety and security for bus operators and passengers. Video helps provide a clear and accurate story of events on the bus and how the bus interacts with pedestrians and other vehicles. But video on its [...]
