Real-Time GPS Tracking for Public Vehicles

All the tools to provide a reliable public transportation experience.

Ace Fleet Manager's GPS Vehicle Tracking and Fleet Management solutions tailored for the public transportation industry, provide a high level of monitoring capabilities with up to the minute location information frequencies. Cities, counties, and any other entity with public transportation vehicles will be able to monitor and track in real-time while providing location information to the passengers. A wide variety of installation options for the GPS vehicle tracking devices are available.

The focus and goal of our Public Transportation solutions is to provide entities with an advanced and reliable platform so they can provide passengers with an advanced and reliable transportation experience. This part of our Public Transportation solutions does exactly that! It gives entities access to a complete fleet management and dispatching platform where they can monitor public vehicles, their activities, key events that trigger automated alerts and much more to assure all operations are always running smoothly.

With Ace Fleet Manager's Real-Time GPS Vehicle Tracking and Fleet Management for Public Transportation entities get:
Real-Time GPS Vehicle Tracking
Live Alerts
Geofences
Vehicle Maintenance Management

 

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AFM Public Tracker for Passengers

The power of GPS Vehicle tracking is now in the passengers' hands. This means a whole new public transportation and ridership experience.

Passengers will have access to view in real-time the location of the public transportation vehicles (busses, trolleys, etc.). This information together with information about routes and other monitoring tools will help passengers improve their public transportation experience, trust its reliability and increase ridership.

 

» Mobile Tracking Apps for Public Transportation passengers.

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Arrival Forecast - Estimated Times of Arrival (ETAs)

Passengers will avoid having to wait outside for long periods of time for late busses, trolleys, shuttles, and any other public vehicle.

Our Real-Time GPS Vehicle Tracking Technology allows us to provide passengers with Estimated Times of Arrival (ETAs) to every stop in the public vehicle's route. Not only can Ace Fleet Manager provide ETAs by going into its routes database and reading locations, but also by identifying when vehicles are late because of any type of issue. This solution means a lot for passengers and it plays a big role when wanting to increase ridership.

Additional to ETAs, passengers also have access to more tools related to the public vehicles' stops information:
Passengers can see stops information such as routes the stop is part of, stops address, public      vehicles that will pass by those stops, ETAs, and see all these information in a map.
Passengers can see their current location in a map and pull up information about all vehicles' stops      near their current location. With this information the system will provide "walking routes" to the closest      stop preferred by the passenger.
Passengers can select the best route of a public vehicle according to their preferred stops interval.

 

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Automated Voice and Text Information System

No access to the internet? No problem! Passengers can also get real-time information about the whereabouts of public vehicles through voice or text.

Our Automated Voice Information System (AVIS) and Automated Text Information System (ATIS) give passengers even more tools to use public transportation like never before.

If they do not have access to a mobile app or computer, or if they need location or ETAs information quickly, they can simply dial or text a phone number (provided by Ace Fleet Manager). By dialing they will access a voice menu, and by text they will receive quick information about the public vehicle's current location or ETA to the next stop.

 

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Automated Passenger Counters

The Automated Passenger Counters (APCs) system monitors passengers coming in and out of the vehicles through all doorways. This is done with a pair of infrared (IR) light beams mounted horizontally across the doors.

Passengers freely pass through the doors and break IR beams in sequence. This generates an entering or exiting count which is merged so it transmits a formatted message via RS232 serial link to the vehicle's GPS Vehicle Tracking System.

The APCs are triggered by any of the following events:
Vehicle Door Open/Close
Wheelchair Ramp Deployed/Stowed (if equipped)
Bicycle Rack Deployed/Stowed (if equipped)
Timestamp

Each of these messages is received by the GPS or AVL system and merged with time/date and GPS coordinates. The merged APC data is then sent to the APC servers in real-time via a cellular connection.

 

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Live Video Monitoring

Entities will get total live control over in-cabin activity.

Live video monitoring is a very important addition to our solutions for Public Transportation Systems. Monitoring visually what happens inside of the public vehicles is key when it comes to providing a secure and reliable public service. Endless are the stories about unpleasant situations happening from either drivers or passengers. Drivers being rude to passengers, passengers not acting properly, drivers breaking behavioral policies that could affect routes performance and more, are situation that every public transportation entity needs to be aware of; Live video is the only solution that will provide a real high level of monitoring and control for these type of situations.

Ace Fleet Manager provides a series of easy to use live video monitoring software and hardware tools. Unlike many other video monitoring solutions, Ace Fleet Manager is connected and synchronized to our Real-Time GPS Vehicle and Fleet Management system to be able to provided additional tools such as automated logging of activities, alerts, and much more.

 

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LED Signs / Annunciators

Additional to all the tools Ace Fleet Manager makes available for passengers to improve their ridership experience, the LED signs and annunciators will improve their experience inside of the actual bus.

Automated on-board visual and audio announcements will keep passengers up-to-date about the vehicle's location, routes and upcoming stops. This is a great benefit for both visually impaired and hearing challenged passengers.

Ace Fleet Manager's LED Signs and Annunciators are ADA compliant and dispatchers can gain remote access to configure what signs will display or announce.

 

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Public Information Displays (PIDs)

Public vehicles' Real-time information at every stop.

PIDs are extremely helpful for passengers due that they can be placed at every stop to provide real-time location information of the public vehicles, estimated times of arrival and departure, as well as information about late vehicles and why they are late. Ace Fleet Manager's Public Information Displays are all of our Public Transportation Solutions put together in one single screen. If the passengers do not have access to a computer or mobile device to track the public vehicles, view arrival forecast or call/text for automated information, they can see all of this information in the PIDs placed at every stop of the public vehicle's route.

Also, PIDs are great to generate revenue for the entity by placing advertisement and be able to use some of this income towards the automation and improvement of the Public Transportation system. On the other hand, they can also be used to provide passengers with important information about the city, school, hospital, amber alerts, and just about anything.

 

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