Mistele. As a Data-as-a-Service provider, Inrix has an analytics platform to collect real-time information from connected fleets in pursuit of helping communities plan intelligent movement, a new approach that leverages big data and the cloud for managing mobility. INRIX Insights Trips and INRIX Insights Volume are informing organizations about traffic volume and trends, which can help calibrate urban planning and freight movement. “With all of the sensors, broadband Wi-Fi and geospatial tech- nologies being implemented in municipalities, it’s only a matter of time before school buses are interacting directly with data about a city’s road network, traffic patterns and weather status,” said Greg Fogarty, vice president of sales at Tyler Technologies. Te company’s next generation transportation management system, Traversa, is already capable of computing real-time third party data for route planning, and the company has rolled out a new tablet for route, driver and student management (See related article on page 44). “All that is needed is cooperation. Te territorial issues and
cross funding will be harder to work through than the actual technology. Te school bus industry continues to be severe- ly underfunded when compared to other mass transportation systems,” said Rob Scott, vice president of sales and marketing at 24/7 Security, which manufacturers mobile digital video recording equipment, security cameras and GPS data management applica- tions for school transportation.
OEM TRACTION FOR AUTONOMY School transportation will soon benefit from technology trans- ferring out of the commercial fleet side. Daimler Truck has logged 15 billion road miles of data from its connected vehicles, which is used to help customers answer questions about total cost of ownership and moving freight efficiently. Daimler Trucks company Tomas Built Buses benefits from
shared data, in addition to a partnership with Zonar Systems. Tis year, Saf-T-Liner and Minotour vehicles will come equipped with Zonar’s Ground Traffic Control, a web-based fleet tracking applica- tion that collects and analyzes data for safety, maintenance and cost. “Next, we can collect more data for autonomy. Data can be democratized for multi-purpose fleets in non-traditional ways within the trucking industry. It will shift how we will be driving,” said Shawn Meredith, strategy and product management at Daimler Trucks.
TECH PROJECTS FEED PRODUCTS School transportation also benefits from the creative research and time that technology companies invest in developing products. Skunk works projects at software developer Transfinder have led to industry-specific solutions in the form of Routefinder, Infofind- er I and Infofinder mobile, connected tools to help bus operators share information with schools. “We aren’t looking at the needs of just today or even next year
but what’s student transportation going to look like in 2020 or beyond,” said Anthony Civitella, Transfinder president and CEO and a member of the Schenectady Smart Cities Advisory Com- mission in New York. “We are looking at such things as smart lighting and cameras and how technology is integrating with one another to create a safer community,” he added. ●
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