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John Clauson, Executive Director and Ellen Gustafson, Operations Director at Kitsap Transit discuss how the agency increased efficiency and expanded service with MAIOR Transit Scheduling from Clever Devices.

As your ridership declines and you adjust your schedules to meet demand, it’s more important than ever to keep those riders who can’t stay home informed. Clever Devices is pleased to offer this refresher training on the emergency communication features of BusTime solution.

Clever Devices is building electric considerations into the core of our offerings to help you plan properly and make the data-driven decisions necessary to quickly begin saving money and realizing the energy efficiencies of a modern, electrified fleet.

The quality of your voice and data communications depends on peak network performance. The CleverCAT suite is a powerful Communications Analysis Tool (CAT) that evaluates the cellular and LMR RF coverage in a specific area using TSB-88 and ITU107 testing standards to determine the degree of variability of voice and data performance throughout the service.

Clever Devices offers wayside signage for a variety of installation locations and environments designed to integrate with your BusTime information feed to provide arrival information and bulletins to your waiting passengers. "Talking Signs" help make transit accessible to those with disabilities.

IVN5 is a rugged and powerful onboard computer specifically designed to manage your transportation applications, collecting and transmitting data, either in real-time or upon arrival in the depot.

Celrado – the IP-based mobile communication solution that provides all the functionality of a traditional land mobile radio (LMR) over cellular infrastructure at a fraction of the cost.

With the use of Clever Devices' SmartYard technology, WMATA has been able to automate its depots with real-time visibility of every vehicle to create efficiencies that improve on-time performances.

Creating and managing service scheduling can be complex and can be difficult to maintain. If you are creating vehicle blocks and runs manually, you are likely missing opportunities for efficiency. MTRAM Scheduling optimizes the creation of your vehicles and drivers’ schedules to ensure maximum productivity and strict adherence to labor laws and union regulations.

Managing and optimizing the assignment of work to your drivers, while ensuring rule adherence and labor law compliance, requires a robust solution. MTRAM Rostering automatically creates optimized driver rosters in accordance with time off requests, labor rules, and agency regulations.

The success of any transit network is dependent upon accurate network planning. An effective public transportation plan enables your agency to control costs, increase efficiencies and deliver the service that represents the needs of your riders. MTRAM Planning helps you model your network and create optimized timetables.

Despite your best efforts to plan and assign your rosters efficiently, every day brings unanticipated challenges that must be addressed on a case by case basis. The MTRAM Management tool simplifies and automates the daily management of your operation helping you to overcome unpredicted changes and attend to unplanned deviations from your planned service.

MTRAM Analysis is an intuitive and easy to use tool that provides you with business intelligence and robust running times analysis that enables you to effectively monitor and improve your service to better meet the needs of your riders.

When a driver must make an announcement using a handheld microphone, they may briefly take their hands off the steering wheel and their eyes off the road. This distraction can lead to increased accidents and safety concerns. With SpeakEasy® drivers can make hands-free, crystal clear route and stop announcements while remaining focused on the safe operation of the vehicle and the road ahead.

Making choices about service levels without accurate data can lead to poor decision making. And, attempting to collect ridership data using manual processes can often be ineffective and very costly. Ridecheck Plus® automates all aspects of reporting so you can accurately collect, analyze and validate the data you need to optimize service while reducing agency costs.

With the SmartYard® advanced yard mapping management solution, you can locate railcars anywhere in the yard, quickly finding them for revenue service, planned maintenance, or inspection servicing. Aside from providing a quick, up-to-date visual view of the rail yard, the application also provides reports for the yard location.

Keeping your passengers informed and perhaps even entertained contributes to an overall positive passenger experience. CleverVision® lets you deliver the right content at precisely the right time while generating additional revenue from national, local or hyper-local advertising opportunities.

You depend on your ITS technology to keep your operations running efficiently. But, if the data that feeds your systems isn’t precise and accurate, your operations can be comprised. With CleverWorksTM data management solution, the integrity of your data is maximized and modifications are made simple and easy so your ITS systems can run with optimum efficiency.

Keeping your passengers informed and perhaps even entertained contributes to an overall positive passenger experience. CleverVision® lets you deliver the right content at precisely the right time while generating additional revenue from national, local or hyper-local advertising opportunities.

The days of standing at a bus stop, on a platform or at a station waiting impatiently for your ride to arrive are over. So too, are the times your passengers spend sitting onboard wondering just how much time they have until they reach their destination. There is nothing more valuable than time and BusTime® from Clever Devices helps your passengers manage their time more efficiently.

In the wrong hands, a bus can be stolen for a reckless joyride, leveraged as a retaliation tool by a disgruntled ex-employee or worse, used as a weapon of destruction. Secure Bus Access leverages your existing Intelligent Transportation System to prevent unauthorized movement of your buses and provides dispatchers with the power to remotely disable a bus should the necessity arise.

With AVM® you can accurately measure and monitor the status of your fleet’s critical systems to identify and correct maintenance issues before they cause the system failures that increase your costs and upset your customers.

Cecil Blandon, Director of Maintenance at AC Transit in Oakland CA, discusses how AVM has helped AC Transit improve and streamline their maintenance in only a few short months. AVM gives agencies the tools and technology needed to diagnose and triage buses instantly, saving time and labor costs

Cecil Blandon, Director of Maintenance at AC Transit in Oakland CA, discusses how AVM has helped AC Transit improve and streamline their maintenance in only a few short months. AVM gives agencies the tools and technology needed to diagnose and triage buses instantly, saving time and labor costs.

Cecil Blandon, Director of Maintenance at AC Transit in Oakland CA, discusses how AVM has helped AC Transit improve and streamline their maintenance in only a few short months. AVM gives agencies the tools and technology needed to diagnose and triage buses instantly, saving time and labor costs.

TAPS (Train Arrival Prediction System) enables you to communicate with your passengers in real time. Using GPS technology and scheduling data, TAPS calculates the real-time arrival time of your trains for specific stops and routes that you can share with your passengers in many ways.

Celrado is an IP-based unified mobile communications system that provides the traditional radio-like features that increase your communication capacity, improves your reliability through seamless switching between communication technologies and enhances service area coverage with a low total cost of ownership.

Without visibility and oversight into real-time operations, it’s impossible to evaluate and monitor how your fleet is performing. CleverCAD® multi-modal fleet management solution is your eyes and ears on the street giving dispatchers and supervisors critical fleet information, comprehensive communications, and complete situational awareness for efficient management of resources.

Turn Warning™ automatically detects when a bus is turning and sends an audio announcement to alert pedestrians on the street that the bus is turning, cautioning them to remain careful and alert. To make turning easier and safer for drivers the system can be configured to audibly remind drivers to check for the presence of pedestrians while turning.

Locate vehicles anywhere in the depot, schedule vehicle and maintenance assignments and run performance and inventory reports from an intuitive, user-friendly display that makes vehicle assignment more efficient & ensures the right vehicle is assigned to the right work.

The TCH is a mobile data terminal for use with Clever Devices’ IVN4® that provides the operator with an interface to on board ITS technology for day-to-day work. With a bright, crisp, touch-sensitive display and a purpose-built rugged housing, the TCH connects the driver to the systems and communication tools needed to ensure the safe and reliable operation of the vehicle.

The Intelligent Vehicle Network – IVN4, is the vehicle logic unit that controls the complete Clever Devices ITS technology package on your vehicle. The brains of the vehicle, IVN4 is a rugged and powerful onboard computer specifically designed to manage your transportation applications, collecting and transmitting data, either in real-time or upon arrival in the depot.

In the wrong hands, a bus can be stolen for a reckless joyride by a thief or a disgruntled ex-employee or worse, used as a weapon of destruction. Secure Bus Access guarantees that only authorized employees can operate the bus to help ensure the safety of employees, passengers and the public

Steps from the 9/11 memorial in the shadow of the Freedom Tower, agencies from all over the US, Canada and Brazil descended on NYC for our annual 2018 event.

With just over 80 buses, DASH operates just outside the Washington, DC metro area and has a demanding customer base. See how Clever Devices is helping them deliver optimized services, reduce costs and create efficiencies.

In Dayton, Ohio promoting and communicating about their new real-time solutions was just as important as selecting a vendor and implementing the technology. In this video, Jessica Olson, Communications Manager from Greater Dayton RTA in Ohio discusses her successful marketing and communications strategy.

The 2019 Customer Engagement Forum brought together public transportation customers from across North America for three days of peer spotlights, networking and hand-on training.

SmartYard allows transit agencies to improve operations with real-time location information of all vehicles in the depot.

When AC Transit needed to upgrade its communications systems, replacing an aging LMR was simply too expensive. By choosing Celrado VoIP they not only saved money but expanded their communications capabilities and added redundancy.

Greyhawk7 is an onboard mobile data computer (MDC) and automatic vehicle locator (AVL) system that is purpose-built for paratransit.

Taking public transportation can be a challenge for passengers with hearing and vision impairments. Clever Devices Automatic Voice Annunciation (AVA) system automates on-board passenger announcements which coordinate with LED on-board signage to make transit more accessible for everyone.

Poor visibility into accurate ridership data leads to the inefficient use of your resources and poor customer service. CleverCount® is an automatic passenger counting (APC) solution that provides insights that allow you to plan based on the actual ridership demands of your customers.

The Disruption Management Module for CleverCAD®reduces the manual nature of the actions taken when a disruption happens and ensures that all systems get updated at the same time.