Freeway Fleet Systems can now read vehicle inspection data entered by bus drivers into Ticketer ticket machines.
The development provides seamless data transfer of first-check inspections and defect reports to improve workshop scheduling and compliance management. The system will be demonstrated for the first time at Euro Bus Expo.
The integration between Freeway’s fleet maintenance software and Ticketer’s ticketing technology is part of a drive by Freeway to help coach and operators to ‘go digital’ by collecting data on electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets and in this case ticket machines.
“Capturing and then dealing with driver defects is a massive task with operators accumulating literally millions of paper defect cards every year. With the advent of the DVSA’s Earned Recognition scheme there is increased focus on compliance including driver defect recording” says Patrick Tandy, Freeway’s Managing Director.
“All operators capture the defects but with laborious manual capture, the details of defects often only become available many hours later.”
With system integration traditionally a drawn out and costly process, Freeway has employed artificial intelligence to simplify integration with Ticketer. The Freeway software learns as data is entered and remembers what data goes where; it recognises defects and their significance allowing future data to be processed automatically and imported correctly.