Paratransit Software Report June, 2009 Table of Contents



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Demand Response Systems


Trapeze provides a variety of software applications, mobile hardware products, and integration services to support real-time vehicle location and passenger information data. Trapeze has equipped transit fleets as small as 4 vehicles to as large as 300 vehicles, for demand response, flexible routes, and multi-modal operations.

mobile computing and gps

Image Courtesy of trapezegroup.com

Demand Response mobile technology includes integration of:


  • Mobile computing for Trapeze and NOVUS dispatching solutions

  • Mobile hardware components, including mobile computers and GPS

  • Alternative affordable hardware solutions such as handheld devices

  • Integration of additional ITS components such as on-board cameras

Additionally, Trapeze’s mobile computing and GPS solutions allow for up-to-the minute location of drivers and passenger trips, increased safety, dispatch management, and on-time performance.

  • Dispatchers can view real-time location of vehicles on a map

  • Drivers can receive and view an electronic manifest, with real-time changes

  • Text communications between dispatch and drivers

  • Automatic entry of trip performance data into the dispatch system



  1. Regional Transportation

The Regional Transportation branch at Trapeze focuses on managing transportation operations across a wide region. Software available for these organization require data management from numerous and wide ranging systems. Trapeze can tailor software to integrate data from those disparate systems for purposes of planning.

Of particular interest to this scope of work, Trapeze’s Regional Transportation Department works with regional authorities and other agencies. Using MS SQL drivers, they are able to accumulate large quantities of data – essential for regional planning over a large area.



  1. Medical Transportation

Trapeze develops automated systems that manage the provision of medical
transportation, including:

  • Reservations

  • Scheduling

  • Real-time dispatching

Fully customizable, their medical transportation software is browser-based (like Ecolane) with GIS mapping services and automated reporting, invoicing and


claims reimbursement applications available.

  1. Ridesharing and Alternative Commuting

Trapeze has a ride share divisions that customizes software to find solutions that match commuters with many kinds of shared transportation, including carpools, vanpools, public transit, park-and-ride, and cycling routes, as well as daycare and telecommuting centers.

Their commuter software, Trapeze RidePro3 connects thousands of commuters with ride sharing opportunities.

These solution components are directly from the Trapeze website and are specifically geared towards carpoolers:

Solution Components


Fast, Automated Matching. Use GIS-based  techniques to perform specific matches by time of day, obstacle recognition, employer restriction, same sex matching, route-to-work corridor matching, time flexibility and more. Results in seconds with even the largest databases.

Convenient Web Interface. Allow commuters to register online and perform self-service ride matching. Employers can manage registrants over the web. Single database design eliminates need to transfer or replicate data.

High Capacity. Performs effectively even on databases with as many as 400,000 commuters.

Integrated Vanpool Matching and Rostering. Define the entire vanpool service area, route and stops graphically on a map. Track drivers and riders and perform cluster analyses quickly and easily.

Advanced Reporting. Reduce time and effort spent tracking matching activities and marketing efforts using numerous predefined reports plus a built in report generator.

Integrated Mapping.  Easily maintain mapping data through high performance graphical map displays. Geocode locations by address, cross street, postal code or by clicking on map image.

Efficent Communication Tools. Keep users up to date in print or email with easy to use email merge features. Automatically contact commuters for online renewal of registration.

Guaranteed Ride Home Tracking. Manage GRH trips, track funding sources and monitor the cost of each voucher.

Coordinate with Neighboring Rideshare Service Providers. Support multiple agencies using a single database while keeping data separated for reporting purposes.

While this has little to do with regional collaboration of transit operations, it does reflect Trapeze’s ability to integrate multiple data streams to coordinate many different vehicles and riders on a large scale.



  1. Management Companies

The Management Companies branch of Trapeze helps transit organizations satisfy business objectives of the management team, key stakeholders, and shareholders. This team offers solutions that can help achieve those objectives. The idea is that these solutions will offer:

  • Greater efficiency,

  • Productive deployment

  • Accurate measurement

  • Reduce cost

  • Offer better value for local and state-wide services

These solutions include:

  • Routing, scheduling and Location Management. Planning and optimization operations for different transportation modes.



  • Operator and Vehicle Scheduling.



  • Operations Management.



  • Customer Information allows transit operators a chance to deliver a range of information and interactive communication services to passengers using call centers, web sites, automated phone systems, in-vehicle and wayside systems.



  • Monitoring and Analysis: software and tools for spatial and statistical analysis.



  • Intelligent Transit Systems: (see subcategory 2).



  1. School Transportation

Trapeze’s School Transportation division is geared towards school transportation services with challenges and safety concerns and increasing enrollment. Trapeze systems integrate features that enable school transportation providers to track real-time vehicle locations, keep parents and staff informed, manage school bus fleets and report on key indicators. Again, fully customizable and capable of the following features:

  • Automated Routing and Scheduling offers lower costs and safety in transportation. Additional benefits include accurate information, automated routing, scheduling and dispatch functions. Integrated, editable maps, drag-and drop stop, address geocoding, and block and stop features are also available through Trapeze’s School Transportation software.



  • Automatic Vehicle Locations (AVLs) are real-time vehicle tracking tools including Global Positioning System (GPS) technology.



  • Fleet Management is designed to promote more efficient vehicle operation while managing inventories, work and purchase orders, maintenance schedules, fuel consumption and reporting requirements.



  • Redistricting provides forecasts and transportation with tools that enable transportation organizations to work with historical, current and projected data and build different boundary scenarios.



  • School Trip Management offers tools that streamline school trip management, estimates, billing, dispatch and reporting.



  • Special Education Transport features are found in Trapeze’s VEO software for special education transport. It is the only software product on the market designed to meet the needs of special education school districts and transport providers.



  • Transportation Information via Web and IVR makes information available to parents, staff, drivers, schools, depots and the public through a Web site or an automated telephone (IVR) service.



  • Transportation for Higher Education (Colleges and Universities) software is also available.



  1. Community Transportation

Trapeze serves smaller community transportation entities with its new Novus ™ software that it claims is affordable, easy to install, and browser based. The software helps community transportation providers an opportunity t o cut costs while continuing to provide secure, reliable and convenient services with the following features:

  • Automated scheduling and dispatch delivers improvements in operational efficiency and productivity for demand response, fixed or flexible route and other types of service.

  • Advanced reporting capabilities reduces the time and effort required to produce standard, ad hoc and custom reports.

  • Affordable mobile computing/ITS improves service quality and efficiency with end-to-end intelligent transit systems scaled for small operations.

  • ASP hosted and rental solutions reduces operating costs, IT support requirements and other headaches by letting us host and maintain your system.

  • Comprehensive, 24/7 customer service provides community transportation providers with rapid response to technical issues with online and live-operator call center support.

  • Mobile Computing and GPS offers real-time GPS/AVL and schedule adherence data.

C. Database

Like most other paratransit providers, Trapeze uses an MS SQL database (see MS SQL chapter in this report), but can be fully integrated using Oracle drivers as well.



Shah Software
Jagat Shah, owner and CEO of Shah Software, has used his regional coordinated plan in West Texas. This can be a prototype for the 87-county Minnesota coordinated plan. He believes that coordination between ALL transit systems in the state of Minnesota could be a logistical nightmare. He also believes that it is “do-able” but says that transportation providers should be broken down into “Primary Providers” and/or perhaps by region.
He also said that Shah Software uses Navteq mapping, which is bundled with the software package. This can be fully integrated.
His software uses a “cascading logic” to prioritize the reservations that he says are, “all placed into a big basket.” The first priority is to get the rider to his or her destination on time. The second primary focus is on location. The 3rd priority is on the agency itself. Essentially the goal is to minimize the number of miles your vehicle drives.
Jagat also says that his software does not currently have a web-based interface component to it, but he can make one.

  

V. Crystal Reports

 

Part V. Crystal Reports, and Part VI. SQL is research directly from www.wikipedia.org. Their write ups on these pieces are top notch, and, in my opinion, the most comprehensive explanation of Crystal Reports and MSQ on the web!

Crystal Reports is a software application used to design and generate reports from a variety of data sources. Several other applications, such as Microsoft Visual Studio, bundle an OEM version of Crystal Reports as a general purpose reporting tool. Crystal Reports became the de facto report writer when Microsoft released it with Visual Basic.



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