Trains are the most common form of public transportation worldwide, but local city buses are next. For bus systems in particular, a wide range of safety concerns, rider experience issues, and efficient operation obstacles stand in the way of an otherwise busy and fluid transit system for millions of people. How to effectively manage bus operations and supervise safe driving habits has become an inevitable challenge that transportation departments are forced to face.

VF&T’s solution can help operators facilitate a comprehensive management system. This system converges abnormal detection, emergency alarms, video security, intelligent driving assistance, and central management, guaranteeing efficiency, safety, and security across the whole transit bus system. Read on to learn how this solution can work for you.

Passenger areas

Challenges
Low-definition video security with dead angles may miss potential risks in the cabin and seating areas, increasing the risk of riding public transit buses. While operators also lack effective ways to handle on-board issues quickly and effectively.

Low-definition video security with dead angles

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Inefficient incident handling

VF&T solution helps operators establish high definition on-board video security. The intelligent video security combined with emergency alarms and intercom provide added levels of security to passengers and drivers on the buses.

Video preview and patrol

BENEFITS

  • Ensures the safety of all drivers and passengers during operations by providing HD on-board video security  
  • Covers a larger number of operating buses using a video patrol plan, reducing operators’ bandwidth usage

FEATURES

  • Converges video from on-board cameras and displays live video feeds through 4G on demand for central monitoring
  • Supports on-board preview and video patrols within the limits of manpower or 4G bandwidth

GPS tracking

BENEFITS

  • Improves operations management visibility and ability to quickly assess a bus’s operating conditions
  • Ensures bus driving safety with bus GPS track view
  • Helps improve the service quality of the operating company

FEATURES

  • Records and uploads GPS data, and displays it in map view
  • Supports checking locations in real-time of all buses in transit
  • Defines a deviation range on the bus route and detects whether the bus crosses or veers out of the predefined area

Historical video and alarm backup

BENEFITS

  • Alarms and video uploads enable operators to respond to emergencies faster, thereby improving the service quality of the operation
  • Scheduled backup at depot reduces bandwidth costs and facilitates event tracing, improving operating efficiency

FEATURES

  • Video clips from AI-triggered alarms or events can be automatically uploaded to the center
  • Through assigned Wi-Fi, the video can be automatically backed up to the depot’s central storage when the bus is parked
  • The operators can manually pick up video clips for central backup at any time for buses while in operation

Voice intercom

BENEFITS

  • Built-in intercom system improves operators’ response times when emergencies occur
  • Reduces the severity of accident consequences by sending assistance faster than common communication methods.

FEATURES

  • Voice intercom with central administrator uses 4G when bus encounters an emergency.

Bus driving cabin

Challenges
Bus safety can be hampered by unexpected anomalies, blind spots, and complicated urban roads. To counteract these challenges, drivers need more intelligent driving assistance that helps them maintain optimal awareness during transit.

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Insufficient assistance and alerts when driving

Potential risks with blind areas

With VF&T’s solution, operators and drivers can stay alert to prevent accidents by integrating anomaly detection, blind spot detection, and ADAS for more accurate perception. Drivers and operators can receive instant alerts and warnings to help ensure a safe driving environment.

Anomaly detection

BENEFITS

  • Real-time voice alarms to keep drivers focused while driving, ensuring bus driving safety
  • Anomalous events recorded for driver performance evaluation and driving standardization

FEATURES

  • Anomaly detection to regulate dangers including fatigued driving, driving while drowsy, etc. 

Blind spot detection

BENEFITS

  • Helps drivers check the status of their blind spots; prevents bus damage caused by collisions
  • Video and audio alarms increase driving safety on complex road sections.

FEATURES

  • Detects cars, motorcycles, scooters and pedestrians while bus is operating on public roads and especially while turning
  • Automatically warns a driver when objects are detected in a blind spot
  • Monitors help drivers confirm blind spot status

Advanced driving assistance system

BENEFITS

  • Smart lane and object recognition, custom alarm sensitivity for complex urban road conditions
  • Effectively warns drivers to avoid head on collisions, ensures the comfort and safety of everyone on board

FEATURES

  • Detects road conditions in front of the bus based on video analysis
  • Detects potential dangers surrounding a bus such as head-on collisions, pedestrians, lane departure, headway monitoring, and more
  • Triggers instant warnings to help drivers stay aware of possible dangers

360-degree view driving assistance

BENEFITS

  • Assists in parking and safe driving of buses, preventing losses of vehicles and property caused by vehicles passing through blind areas

FEATURES

  • Image equalization algorithms are adopted to achieve perfect mosaic of 4-way images
  • Supports 720p high-definition camera input for panoramic video security around the vehicle
  • Can be connected or hardwired to vehicle turn and reverse signals

Entryway

Challenges
Passengers get on and off the bus at the doorways. Manual and inaccurate operational statistics here often slow down the optimization process and creates the potential for more traffic jams and inefficient operations.

Inefficient operation with inaccurate statistics

VF&T’s solution helps operators conduct real-time passenger counting along with bus fare verification and inspections. It can be integrated with third-party platforms to improve efficiency.

Real-time passenger counting

BENEFITS

  • Ensures that the bus picks up passengers within its capacity to ensure public safety
  • Provides a live flow query interface and gives passengers the load density on the bus to help them choose the best travel times and routes

FEATURES

  • Displays real-time numbers on driver’s monitor; triggers alarms when passenger numbers exceed max capacity; supports alarm links to third-party controllers
  • Syncs live passenger data to the operation center; helps operators release real-time data to passengers through the third-party platform

Passenger flow statistics

BENEFITS

  • Visual diagrams help bus companies acquire operation statuses for bus stops and bus fleets, optimizing dispatch scheduling and station commercialization
  • Verifies and inspects bus fares efficiently by providing convincing passenger flow data

FEATURES

  • Supports visual reports of passenger flow
  • Provides passenger flow statistics queries and exporting
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Operation Center

Challenges
The numerous and scattered bus routes in urban cities often result in unreasonable schedules or routes, which increases operating pressures and reduces the efficiency of passengers’ journeys.

Inefficient device management with potential risks

Unreasonable route and schedule management

The VF&T on-board transit solution helps operators manage routes and schedules flexibly, consolidating insights, handling event alarms, and integrating bus operation systems to optimize efficiency and establish a citizen-friendly commuting system.

Bus and route management

BENEFITS

  • An integrated platform for bus and route monitoring improves bus operators’ efficiency
  • Flexible scheduling with a user-friendly GUI makes online editing and management easier

FEATURES

  • Supports visually editing bus stops, routes, and schedule in batches
  • Associates bus fleets and routes on the GIS map with more intuitive view
  • Intelligent analysis of arrival times of each bus in terms of fleet or stop dimensions

Performance evaluation

BENEFITS

  • Assists bus operators implement a driver evaluation system to optimize operation
  • Organizes statistics visually to enhance efficiency

FEATURES

  • Provides organized information systematically, including mileage, hours online, number of events, on-time rates, fuel consumption, etc.

On-board device management

BENEFITS

  • Improves operation efficiency and gives the company the ability to deal with potential safety issues as early as possible
  • Real-time monitoring and maintenance of equipment status to improve system security

FEATURES

  • Supports on-board device status updates and display
  • Supports viewing, searching, and exporting device alarm status
  • Supports batch upgrading and displaying of any status