Technology is available today that can watch the driver and detect if their eyes close. Though adoption into the school transportation industry is far and few.
as they occur in real-time, or ideally before they oc- cur and alert the driver and send an immediate alert to supervisors. This, he said, would help avoid dangerous situations. “AI is the primary tool, which provides these video systems the ability to detect events and behaviors in real time,” he said. “Examples of events and behaviors that can be detected using AI include the detection of pedestrians in the blind spot of the vehicle, detection of passengers left on the bus after the route (i.e., sleeping child left on bus), backpack or other object left on the bus, drowsy driver, driver using a cell phone or smoking while driving, vehicle departing lanes without signaling, or vehicle following too close to the preceding vehicle.” REI offers an Advanced Driver Assistance (ADAS) system, which uses AI as an option. According to Mike Guzallis, the associate product manager at REI, the system, “looks [at] and reads the road and monitors if a driver is following too close, making a lane change without signaling, speeding, and provides pedestrian detection." He added that AI sensors can detect a hu- man presence and if an individual is standing, sitting or laying down. Detection could also include a sleeping child being left on the bus, or if a student is smoking or vaping.
Another use case of video is incident management.
Many districts shared that they use video as a tool for training purposes for their drivers. Avery Englander, the senior director of technology at Rosco Vision Systems,
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said the company built a driver experience into its software to identify drivers based on either key fobs or ID cards. The company also offers an identification app that a bus driver can use to scan a unique QR code through the phone camera to verify they are the autho- rized operator of a certain vehicle. “All of the data is now linked to that specific person
for the whole route or for the whole day,” Englander said, adding that they’ve created a driver scoring mechanism where different types of road events are weighted for managers to use to score the driver. “And as events happen, a score is tallied, and this
score can be reviewed weekly, biweekly, monthly,” he explained. “And they can see the score and what contrib- uted to it or what was the aggregate. Then sit with the driver and have an actual [conversation] and that’s why we built our drivers coaching mechanism.” Rosco offers its software as a service fleet manage-
ment system, RoscoLive, where managers can designate team members to identify driving events and schedule coaching events. The driver and manager can review their score and see what events led to the score. “We’ve seen that fleets will create incentive pro- grams for their drivers where drivers who are on the lower end of the scoring (a low score is good and a high score is bad, like golf) will be incentivized to do so through recognition or some reward,” Englander added. ●
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