Bus Control Solutions

Industry Overview:

As the scale of cities continues to expand, road traffic volume has increased dramatically. Major cities are promoting the development strategy of "low-carbon travel, bus priority". The number of buses has increased rapidly, the routes have been extended, and the number of buses has increased. The situation of poor bus operation management has become increasingly prominent. Due to the characteristics of large passenger flow, strong mobility, and difficulty in supervision, urban buses provide many opportunities for criminals to commit crimes frequently and roam around. They are also the preferred targets of international terrorism to create terror. Bus passenger transportation in various places often has transportation disputes, and the overall public security situation is relatively complicated . In addition, passengers evade fares and drivers and crew members steal ticket money. This has always troubled bus managers and public security management departments. How to ensure the safety of bus vehicle operations, improve bus operation big data collection, efficiently dispatch bus vehicle resources, promote the healthy development of the urban public transportation industry, and ensure the smooth and orderly operation of urban public transportation is crucial to promoting sustainable social and economic development, improving urban living environment, promoting urban civilization construction, and protecting the basic travel rights and interests of the general public.

Pain point analysis：

• Difficulty in obtaining evidence in disputes
  Bus operations often involve public security incidents such as transportation disputes, theft, fighting, terrorism or venting of anger. Traffic accidents such as scratches and collisions occur during operation. There are also cases of property losses such as bus drivers directly collecting ticket money from passengers or coin boxes being damaged, resulting in the loss of ticket money. Without surveillance video evidence, it is difficult to restore what happened at the scene. Post-analysis lacks factual evidence, there is a lack of effective supervision of drivers and passengers, and their legitimate rights and interests cannot be guaranteed.
  
• Vehicles outside the station become blind spots
  bus leaves the station, the operating management cannot grasp the real-time status of the vehicle in time. The driver holds all the initiative. The central dispatchers or supervisors cannot check the vehicle operation status and cannot effectively supervise and manage the vehicle.
  
• Irregular driving
  The drivers have a weak sense of responsibility and often engage in speeding, sudden acceleration, deceleration, and sharp turns. They also engage in irregular behaviors such as making phone calls, smoking, and chatting with passengers while driving, which seriously affect the safety of driving and passengers.
  
• Rigid vehicle dispatch
  Due to the lack of real-time data on vehicle operations, most bus dispatches adopt fixed schedules and control of departure and arrival times, and are unable to provide data support for optimizing dispatch based on analysis of the number of operating passengers.
  
• Real-time location intelligence applications
  In some areas, buses do not automatically announce stops based on the vehicle's location, and drivers tend to forget to manually announce stops after arriving at a stop, causing passengers to miss their stops. Passengers who need to ride can know the bus's current location and predicted arrival time.
  
• Inefficient operation and heavy management workload
  The information prompts in the car need to be operated manually by the driver, which is prone to errors and greatly increases the driver's workload; the inspectors of traditional bus operating companies have to conduct regular inspections on the vehicles, which requires a lot of funds and personnel; due to the daily use of waybills, reports, tickets, etc., front-line staff need to input a large amount of basic operating data, which results in a large amount of manpower costs and paper waste, and makes the work of urban bus personnel difficult.

Solution:

By installing the smart bus vehicle terminal kit on the bus , transmitting data through wireless 4G, and deploying the smart bus monitoring system of the bus dispatch monitoring platform at the back end. The bus vehicle terminal kit may include: vehicle monitoring subsystem and vehicle dispatch subsystem. The vehicle monitoring system may include vehicle DVR host, monitoring camera, vehicle LCD display, microphone, vehicle alarm and status display panel, vehicle fireproof storage box; the vehicle dispatch system may include bus smart dispatch screen, video people counting instrument, speakers inside and outside the car, bus card reader, dispatch hand microphone, LED information screen, media release screen. Collected data can be uploaded or updated data can be downloaded uniformly, which is convenient for centralized management and generation of operation statistics reports.

The bus dispatch monitoring platform controls the on-board front-end system through a wireless network, and realizes functions such as audio and video monitoring, GPS positioning, vehicle route management, vehicle dispatch, voice intercom, and alarm processing. It can also upload data for storage and aggregation, generate background management reports, and realize functions such as vehicle maintenance management and route operation management.

System functions:

• Full-process monitoring: Real-time video, audio, and location monitoring of vehicles, remote viewing of on-site conditions and historical video data. When the vehicle turns left or right, the corresponding video images can be dynamically switched inside the vehicle to provide driving assistance to the driver. GPS high-precision positioning is used to understand the location and current status of each vehicle in real time, and the historical trajectory of the vehicle can be retrieved .
  
• Basic information management : including vehicle terminal equipment management, vehicle management, vehicle fuel management, personnel information management, route information management, fleet information management, company information management, site and parking lot information management.
  
• Safety driving assistance system: The built-in safety module of the vehicle terminal can realize the driver's driving status monitoring DSM system, such as yawning, closing eyes, smoking, talking on the phone, drinking water, looking around; at the same time, the vehicle's forward-looking auxiliary driving ADAS system, such as front vehicle collision warning FCW, vehicle distance warning HMW, lane departure warning LDW ;
  
• Vehicle driving status detection: The vehicle terminal has a built-in unique GSensor algorithm to realize dynamic detection of vehicle driving, such as sudden acceleration, sudden deceleration, sharp left and right turns, and rollover collision detection alarm, strengthen the monitoring of the driver's driving standards, and improve passenger satisfaction;
  
• Passenger counting: By installing an intelligent AI crowd counting device above the bus door, the passenger boarding and alighting situation at each station can be collected and summarized for big data analysis, providing data support for bus operation and government regulatory decision-making.
  
• IC card reader data upload: By connecting to the IC card reader, data can be uploaded to the back-end monitoring platform in real time, allowing the monitoring center managers to instantly grasp the revenue situation.
  
• Emergency alarm function: Real-time SOS alarm can be triggered through the alarm and status panel. In case of emergency, the alarm can be triggered with one button. The alarm information is automatically uploaded to the monitoring center, the image inside the car automatically pops up on the center display, and the alarm vehicle icon flashes on the GIS map.
  
• On-board fireproof storage box: The vehicle terminal can mirror the data in the vehicle to the on-board fireproof storage box in a timely manner. Even if the bus is in dangerous situations such as fire or falling into water, the alarm video data can be stored intact so that it can be read and analyzed later.
  
• Automatic data download and backup: When the bus enters the station, it can be set to automatically download the video via wireless WIFI as planned for long-term backup.
  
• Line station management : automatic voice station announcement, automatic dispatch, entry and exit station prompts, line deviation prompts, section speed limit management, etc.
  
• Dispatching management : The bus intelligent dispatching system can be used for voice intercom with the center. By connecting the speakers inside and outside the bus, voice announcements and shouting functions inside and outside the bus can be realized, including departure information, alarm information, entry and exit prompts, deviation from the route prompts, refueling, chartering, maintenance, speeding, passing the station, road obstructions, failures, delays, early departures and other information . Dispatchers can also send real-time dispatch instructions to the vehicle.
  
• Operation analysis report : The system provides the generation, query, EXCEL format display, statistical chart display, printing, etc. of various operation reports required by buses , so that bus companies can fully grasp the operation status and provide detailed and timely data support for analysis and decision-making.

System topology diagram, for detailed pictures, please refer to the color page material PPT

Passenger flow station distribution
--Intuitively understand the passenger flow distribution at different stations on the route

Passenger flow distribution by time period
--Intuitively understand the passenger flow distribution of the line at different times

Passenger flow trend chart
--Intuitively understand the route vehicle big data