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Fare data management service.

Reduce by 80% the effort required to compile your monthly reports. Estimated to reduce required effort by 1800 hours per year or more. Data manually compiled over a month period produced in 18 minutes.

 

 

 

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Fare data management service.

Reduce by 80% the effort required to compile your monthly reports. Estimated to reduce required effort by 1800 hours or more per year . Data manually compiled over a month period was produced in 18 minutes.

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 Problem Statement

 

The preparation of and submission of the monthly reports takes too much effort.
The Process is error prone and difficult
The Process is labor intensive.

 

 Success looks like 

  • The Process will take less time
  • The Process will be accountable
  • The process will require less specialized knowledge.
  • The Process will be more accurate.

 

Acceptance criteria

  • The project will be considered a success if it achieves goals set forth in the desired outcome
  • Stakeholder analysis (impact)
  •  Resource impact
  • The impact on labor requirements to produce the monthly report will be substantially reduced.

 

High level business requirements

  •   Agency requires a streamlined process which relies on automation to reduce the effort and errors involved in the monthly report process.

 

Business context

 

  •   Agency is a public agency
  •   The actual operations are performed by a subcontractor

 

 In/ out of scope

 

  •   The interfaces to systems and data sources are in scope
  •   The Limits of this endeavor are the processing of data supplied by external source

 

Related Experience

Worked as the agency Technical Project administrator for a DRI project.  I withdrew when It seemed liek DRI woudl not be able to complete the project.

Comprehensive AVL Features Digital Recorders®

AVL offers a set of integrated tools and applications designed to address the real-time and historical needs of the transit industry. Transit management, planners, dispatchers, vehicle operators and passengers are each uniquely served by its rich feature set.
 

Real-Time System Monitoring

  • Vehicle Location on Digital Maps
  • Schedule Adherence Monitoring
  • Headway Monitoring (BRT, Shuttles, Airports)
  • Route Adherence (Off-Route Detection) Color Coded Operational Statuses
  • List Views – Text Views of the System

Full On-Vehicle System Integration

  • Single Point Login
  • Automatic Vehicle Health Monitoring (AVM)
  • J1708
  • J1939 (CAN Bus)
  • Multiplex Systems
  • Farebox Integration
  • APC Integration
  • Video Camera Integration Internal/External Sign Integration Automatic Vehicle Announcement System (AVAS)
  • 802.11g WiFi System Updates and Data Offload

Flexible Communications

  • Private Radio
  • Cellular Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWAN)
  • Voice Radio Control – RTT/PRTT
  • Pre-Defined Messages to and From Vehicles
  • Free-Text Messages From Dispatch to Vehicles
  • Remote Triggering of Audio/Visual Messages on Vehicles

Security

  • Covert Emergency Alarms
  • Off-Route Monitoring

Incident Management

  • Playback
  • Incident Reporting

IT Features

  • Access Control by User Login Rights
  • MS SQL Database Support
  • Data Import/Export
  • Interface to Third Party Scheduling Software Logging of All Communications Packets

AVL Reports

  • Access Control by User Login Rights
  • On-Time Performance – Counts and Percentages
  • Late Performance – Counts and Percentages
  • Arrival/Departure Detail Reports
  • Early Departure Reports / Late Login Reports
  • Missed Block Reports / Pull Out Reports AVM Reports Headway Reports
  • Ad Hoc Reports Using Crystal Reports Customized Reports

Support Tools

  • Sign Display and Definition
  • Schedule Creation and Import
  • Bus Arrival Display Management Announcement Set-Up and Maintenance
 
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