A demonstration of Safe Fleet’s AI-based Predictive Stop Arm during the 2019 STN EXPO Indianapolis. The artificial intelligence technology aimed at keeping students safe at bus stops is one of a growing number of solutions available to the industry.


system issues an alert, with students warned to stay back through speakers mounted on the outside of the bus. In addition, the system can serve in both a punitive


and educational fashion. The stop-arm camera cap- tures license plate images of vehicles that illegally pass a stopped school bus, providing info for law enforcement to issue citations and in the process, potentially alter future driver behavior.


At Hendrick Hudson School District in Montrose, New


York, buses have been equipped with AI-enhanced cam- eras that detect threats to students of illegally passing motorists and scans video footage for evidence of an incident, following completion of a pilot program with Bus Patrol. The project was successful in convincing local officials of the value of the system. “I’m very happy with the stop-arm cameras,” said


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