GPS Vehicle Tracking offers valuable benefits for any type of business!

Did you know our GPS Vehicle Tracking solutions are tailored for each individual transportation entity and provide a high level of monitoring capabilities with up to the minute location information frequencies? Not to mention, you can access your information frequencies just about anywhere from a tablet or mobile device.

Have real time control while you save time, money and maximize your entity's full potential with our powerful, state of the art, GPS Tracking. The system runs seamlessly by itself or can easily pair with any current operating system to improve time management, lower fuel costs, reduce payroll and ensure safety by tracking driver's behavior. 

GPS Tracking enables your business to do just some of the following:

• View your entire fleet at once, or monitor the individual whereabouts of specific vehicles
• Control your vehicle (enable/disable ignition, lock/unlock doors, open/close windows, etc.)
• Set geofences to be alerted when vehicles go outside of a certain area
• Organized dispatching
• Monitor vehicle maintenance
• Observe driver behavior

Complying DOT’s Drug and Alcohol Policy is easy with TSO Mobile Automated Random Testing

While tracking is a major part of operating a business efficiently, monitoring driver behavior helps contribute to increasing overall productivity.

According to a recent study published in the Journal Sleep,  20% of all crashes involving a commercial vehicle results from drowsiness behind the wheel.  Improve safety conditions by installing our sensors which alert dispatching of drowsy driving activity!

Our GPS Vehicle Tracking also has the ability to automatically rate your drivers based on custom behavior metrics. Create custom driver behavior profiles featuring:

• RPMS
• Speeding
• Harsh Turns
• Idling
• Fuel performance
• Acceleration
• Deceleration
• Average Speed

TSO Mobile offers additional tools to improve Driver Behavior, including our GPS Tracking with Live Video Verification to monitor and reference the cause of a driver's behavior at any given time. These tools create accountability and driver's respond by performing better.

Dispatch and Human Resources can utilize and benefit from preventative safety measures with our Driver Behavior Score Card. Our Score Card features automated random testing for both Alcohol and Drug tests, and then stay organized with driver's alcohol and drug test results with our easy to reference, automatically updated Medical Card system.

With TSO Mobile's all-under-one-roof solutions, your business will be running smoother in no time!

One Platform. Ample Solutions.

 

To operate an effective and successful transportation system, various moving parts need to be monitored and measured.

Where are your vehicles going?

When are they arriving?

Is your driver going too fast?

Do your transit routes make the most efficient use of time and fuel? 

These, in addition to many more, are all questions whose answers enable you to evaluate and deliver a reliable public transportation experience to your passengers. 

Our all-in-one GPS Vehicle Tracking and Fleet Management solutions have the ability to bring you all of these answers in one platform; they are even further tailored to the public transportation industry you operate in. 

Providing a high level of monitoring capabilities with up-to-the-minute location information frequencies, our GPS Tracking platform gives you access to a complete fleet management and dispatching program where you can monitor public vehicles, their activities, key events that trigger automated alerts and much more to ensure all operations are always running smoothly.

 We work in real-time, reporting every 10 seconds, 360 times per hour!

With our platform you we give you:

• Real-time information on the location of your vehicles
• Information about safety levels of operations
• Remote control of your vehicles
• Alert notifications via email or text messages
• Real-time information about your drivers' performance
• Information on vehicle conditions
• Historical information on your vehicles
• Security protocols
• Analytical reports for key decision-making
• And much more!

Do you influence your mobile audience?

Earlier this month, TSO Mobile had the opportunity to showcase products at the APTA Bus & Paratransit Conference in Fort Worth, Texas. The event was sponsored by the American Public Transportation Association and hosted by the Fort Worth Transportation Authority as it invited all attendees to join in learning about the various vehicles and technology associated with providing public transportation. At its Bus Products and Services Showcase, TSO Mobile proudly staged and displayed our Onboard Advertising System technology, offering transit operators an additional opportunity for revenue generation.

As the demand for various public transportation options continues to increase in cities, ridership is growing. As more and more individuals decide to jump on trolleys, buses and rails in their cities, the audience sitting in these vehicles has expanded to become much more varied than that of years ago. We see groups of all ages, races, professions and incomes riding public transit to get where they need to go. With a growing passenger audience, the option of digital onboard advertising systems provides a significant revenue generation opportunity for transit companies everywhere.

Increasingly popular "Park-and-Ride" options have caused a wide range of business professionals, teachers, college students and many other types of workers to leave their vehicles in parking spaces and ride public transit vehicles to and from jobs. Digital onboard advertising tactics reaches all these passengers, demanding attention and allowing reception of messaging visually – no matter what other senses are being distracted, such as headphones affecting the ability to hear.

With highly effective and professional onboard advertising, HD multimedia display technology placed onboard has the ability to easily reach both drivers and passengers riding public transit, using screens to comprehensively show campaigns and real-time notices. The system combines audio, video, TV images, pictures, animation, texts, documents, websites, streaming media and database data into different features and then releases the finished programs via a uniform network to
media display terminals everywhere. The images and real-time information are then systematically and perfectly displayed in front of the seated audience at designated locations.

While onboard advertising can serve as a dominant use of onboard digital space, these systems placed onto vehicles can be used for more than simply promotional methods. Onboard displays have the ability broadcast multiple notifications to travelers in real-time and display announcement information all while remaining centrally controlled with scheduled messaging. With the ability to inform and engage passengers, digital advertising allows transportation facilities to efficiently connect with their commuters, whether at stations where they sit and wait or while riding vehicles daily.

Some prospects these systems are capable of, once implemented, include the capacity and technology to become an information source to tourist riders, offering informational material about surrounding areas based on vehicle movement via geofencing techniques; tell stories and facts about given subjects automatically; create infomercials; and provide vehicle updates and status in real-time. With installed onboard advertising systems, technology can then be manipulated to perform customized tasks to fit the needs of any transit operation.

Digital placement of information onto transit vehicles offers an amazing opportunity to transportation operators in any field to make profitable use of fleet vehicles' onboard space by subsidizing operations with advertisements. TSO Mobile provides you the hardware and technology needed to make it easy for you to take advantage of building relationships with businesses in your local area by creating a unique opportunity to benefit everyone.

Image credits: APTA Bus & Paratransit Conference (www.apta.com)

Facilitating Paratransit Services in Arizona

Changing technology is continuing to make it easier for local governments and other providers to meet the evolving transportation needs of individuals with hearing and visual disabilities.

Today, providers of paratransit services have tools they can integrate into their existing technology that not only make it easier for those with sight or hearing issues to use their systems, but also make it possible to minimize distractions to drivers. 

At TSO Mobile, we are working closely with many paratransit providers to integrate real-time tracking solutions with a variety of other solutions that offer important information to both passengers and system managers.

At the recent Arizona Transit Authority AzTA/ADOT Transit Conference in Phoenix, our team was on hand to demonstrate the many solutions we offer to paratransit providers, which are all available under one platform.

Several communities in Arizona,  are partnering with us to strengthen their paratransit services and also provide enhanced passenger-centered solutions to those with special needs.

Using TSO Mobile's Audio Visual Annunciator System and our GPS Tracking system, Cotton Express paratransit service now makes it easier for many passengers with sight or hearing disabilities to stay up to date on the location of the vehicle they're traveling on and to know when the vehicle will be approaching its next stop.

The annunciator system includes ADA compliant LED visual displays for those with hearing disabilities and also audio announcements for those with visual impairments. The AVAS takes the burden of making announcements about upcoming stops off drivers, making it safer and easier for them to focus on the road.

Combining our GPS tracking technology with a mobile voice-information system, TSO Mobile also makes it possible for those with special needs to call a specific number on their mobile phone for voice information that alerts them when the scheduled paratransit vehicle they're expecting will arrive.

Through our GPS tracking platform we are helping several communities in Arizona, as well as in other parts of the country stay aware of the location of their paratansit vehicles and also track data.

Today when a customer calls to request paratransit services, the information can be entered into our system, which will collect data for the day of services and create a route.

Once the route is created, we have a solution that forwards the information to a driver through a tablet or terminal(MDT). Our integrated tracking system makes it possible for system operators to monitor the location of each paratransit vehicle. Our integrated platforms also make it possible for drivers and system operators to communicate in real time electronically.

Our services are also being used in Arizona by Communities who are seeking to integrate transportation services provided by multiple tribes under a common application. 

TSO Mobile - Passenger Centered Solutions

How are you using the latest technology?

It is no secret that technology has revolutionized the way that business is conducted in today's world. With advances in communication and information technology, the aspects in operating a successful business are often reliant on the ability to share and receive information as quickly and efficiently as possible. One of the latest and most popular forms of continuously progressing technology is that of mobile devices and applications integrated within these devices.

 

Within the fleet management industry, with the assistance of mobile technology and applications, fleet managers are able to operate their businesses on the go, while gaining significant benefits. With mobile integration of applications, fleet management offices are able to maximize productivity, improve communication, optimize scheduling, reduce costs, provide better customer service and improve the overall performance of a fleet.

 

With GPS Fleet Tracking mobile apps, connected fleets can be listed on one single screen and provide real-time control about the whereabouts of vehicles. Increased productivity is achieved through an applications' ability to access and select any and all vehicles within a fleet. Through different map views, it is easy to see and schedule route navigations while receiving constantly updated information about current and historical locations. With the capability to manage vehicles from anywhere, work orders can even be placed and processed with the push of a button. GPS tracking of vehicles, giving exact locations and information, can then give agencies the power to communicate with riders about scheduling and timing.

 

Because of a mobile applications' ease of use, communication between drivers and operators is also made more efficient. Real time chat and messaging capabilities are accomplished as different updates and statuses arise and need to be reported. Communication is instant, making solutions to problems or concerns easy and effective. The sharing of information then quickens the decision-making process in reducing costs of fleet performances when affected, such as tracking fuel usage.

 

Mobile applications allow the most important tools of a GPS Fleet Tracking System to become accessible at the palm of your hand, at the touch of a screen. With mobile apps that integrate with GPS Fleet Tracking Systems such as those of TSO Mobile, fleet operators are able to access professional versions of web systems that lets them track vehicles and entire fleets on the go. It also serves to relay detailed, important information and historical activity concerning monitored fleets. 

 

The TSO Mobile "TSO Fleet Pro" GPS Fleet Tracking App may be downloaded from Google Play for Android phones and in the App Store for use on iPhones.

 

Published by Mass Transit Magazine on February 9, 2015 

Making Public Transportation More Effective

American cities are increasingly facing new demands on transportation systems due to a rapidly growing population. As a demand for various public transportation options to become available increases, as does a need to keep these systems running more and more efficiently. Big or small, running in large or smaller cities, these public transportation systems rely on the use of GPS vehicle tracking systems to ensure an efficient practice to achieve maximum satisfaction for its customers. As a need for quantity has increased, it has become just as important to build these systems for the public, as it has to build them smartly. 

Because of this need, the implementation of GPS-based fleet management solutions to control and execute these systems has become more crucial than ever. GPS tracking not only monitors where employees are, but poses much larger benefits to attaining a successful and efficient public transportation system, leading to happier, more satisfied passengers.

Here are 5 Advantages to Making Public Transportation More Effective through GPS Tracking Solutions:

1. Monitor where employees are and what they are doing

GPS tracking system technologies provide proof of location, route use and service completion in the most efficient method possible. They offer a cost effective way to monitor vehicle performance and employees for speed, location, and any possible misuse of vehicles. With monitoring techniques easily available, there is better guidance for drivers and faster emergency response actions to ensure pinpoint precision and efficiency.

2. Reduction in costs

Through the use of GPS tracking systems, a reduction of costs in several platforms can be found. Because of efficient route management and decision-making, a reduction in average travel time per job can be reached. Maintaining and reducing idle time can lessen mileage and fuel costs per trip. Costs per year are found to be decreased in the long-term as more people use the public transportation systems as well. By use of efficient technologies, passengers are left satisfied and more likely to reuse public transportation systems, using less fuel on personal individual vehicles and increasing fuel savings, ending in more efficient operations.

3. Improved vehicle maintenance

With installed GPS devices, vehicles are monitored accurately and timely, providing data in terms of speed and vehicle performance. With the latest monitoring software technology available, easy tracking of speeding, braking excessively, etc. can be recognized and further action can be anticipated. By supervising handling of vehicles in a system, maintenance costs may be lowered significantly.  

4. Improved communication between dispatchers and drivers

With use of fleet management technologies, dispatchers are able to view computer screens in order to monitor location of existing vehicles in reference to their own and traffic conditions. By staying alert about any accidents, construction and potential delays, maximum efficiency of routes taken can be achieved through efficient communication between dispatchers and drivers. This instant communication increases fuel and maintenance efficiency while ensuring customer satisfaction.

5. Real time updates for passenger

With fleet tracking technologies, customers are easily able to receive real-time information during the use of their chosen public transportation systems. Passengers can instantly be updated on waiting and arrival times as well as schedules at designated stops. Accurate updates can be given based on the nearest vehicles progress and information. With mobile applications like those used by TSO Mobile, it has become easier than ever for track vehicles in real-time. By staying fully informed and interactive, passengers are left satisfied and more likely to repeat use.

TSO Mobile & Public Transportation

Our nation is relying more and more on public transportation, not only as a necessity, but also as a desire for it. There has been an apparent trend of a growing desire to have access to various forms of public transportation throughout the cities people live in. This development seems to be trending predominantly by America's largest generation. Being the younger generation searching for places to settle down and live in, millennials are the passengers that metro areas nationwide need to attract and keep if they want to stay sustainable in the future.

According to a study conducted by the Global Strategy Group and directed by the Rockefeller Foundation and Transportation on a large group of millenials, it was found that 4 out 5 of these individuals say they would prefer to live in places where they have a range of options to travel to jobs, school and other daily activities.  While preferring the option of public transportation to avoid automobile use, either for convenience or cost, it's important to not only provide the service, but also provide it efficiently.

Many public transportation systems in existence offer residents of their respective towns the option to get around using their services, but lack the proper tools to control and manage operations to provide passengers with the pleasurable riding experience they desire. As a major growing factor in millenials decision-making process in deciding where to live, these systems of transportation need to run as efficiently as possible if it is to be worthwhile to those using it.

In the world of public transportation, passenger satisfaction is key. Many public transit systems currently lack the tools that ensure control and high management of system operations to provide customers with a pleasing and fulfilling riding experience. With TSO Mobile solutions, entities will find increased productivity, improved dispatching, increased security, reduced operation costs, and a general increased reliability on their public transportation system 

Public transportation needs be easy to use, friendly, and a well-organized experience for passengers. It is important for these transportation systems to work on efficiency and time management to accomplish passenger-centered solutions, as provided by TSO Mobile. The younger generations are more and more leaning towards choosing homes in locations based on access to high quality transit and an idea of complete streets. 

TSO Mobile strives to support these public transportation systems by combining all of the ultimate technology for transit systems, management companies, cities and towns. With TSO Mobile's public transportation solutions, entities will experience increased productivity, improved dispatching, increased security, and reduced operations costs. Most importantly, passengers will start seeing the reliability of their public transportation system and increase ridership.