Empowering Paratransit Agencies and Riders with Technology
Paratransit vehicles are an essential part of every city in the US; and in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), not only an essential but mandatory part of most transit agencies[1]. Paratransit Services Today The need for paratransit is rising. The MTA in New York City reports their [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
How Fleets Can Reduce Their Operational Risk
On November 30th, I wrote a blog post for Metro Magazine about “Practical Drift,” the tendency to drift away from the proper and precise way we were taught to perform a job or function. In the case of bus drivers, the drift manifests itself by the forming of bad [...]
The Future of Transit and how it will affect Everyone (Part 4 of 4)
This is Part 4 in our series on the future of transit (gathered during the recent CUTA — Canadian Urban Transit Association, New Mobility Symposium held in Vancouver, British Columbia). Read Parts 1, 2 and 3 . In our previous posts, we indicated there could be a significant uptake [...]
The Future of Transit and how it will affect Everyone (Part 3 of 4)
This is Part 3 in our series on the future of transit (as discussed during the recent CUTA — Canadian Urban Transit Association, New Mobility Symposium held in Vancouver, British Columbia). Read Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. In our previous posts, we discussed the milestone goal [...]
Beyond 1080p: What’s best for mobile surveillance?
A sibling wrestling match triggered a shopping trip for a new HDTV this past weekend. The biggest decision: 1080p vs 4K. The sales guy at Best Buy had some convincing arguments for 4K resolution. My vote was for 1080p, being the budget-conscious consumer. My husband was puzzled by the [...]
The Future of Transit and how it will affect Everyone (Part 2 of 4)
This is Part 2 in our series on the future of transit (gathered during the recent CUTA — Canadian Urban Transit Association, New Mobility Symposium held in Vancouver, British Columbia). Read Part 1 here. We started our previous post by stating that transit agencies will play a key role [...]
