County of Lebanon Transit Authority
Lebanon, PA
Avail customer since 2002
COLT provides Community Oriented Local Transit to the citizens of Lebanon County that is safe, dependable and affordable and currently operates a mixed fleet of approximately 10 fixed route buses and 16 paratransit vehicles.
- Intelli-Fare - provides farebox ridership and revenue reporting, data mining, and analysis for operational personnel
- Procurement and Project Management services
- 1-2-3 approach for needs assessment, procurement assistance, and systems integration for ITS technologies
- SafetyVision Road Recorder 6000 in-vehicle digital video security system
- StrataGen ADEPT Computer Aided Reservation, Scheduling, and Dispatching System
- Mentor Engineering Mobile Data System including XGate and Mobile Data Computers (MDC)
2002 – COLT uses Avail’s Intelli-Fare software product to help them get the most out of the vast amount of data being collected by their GFI electronic farebox collection system. COLT operates GFI Cents-a-Bill Fareboxes with TRiM ticketing units and the Data System 7 backend. Avail’s Intelli-Fare provides extensive exception capabilities to make the data more accurate, then makes this data easily accessible providing user friendly yet powerful ridership and revenue reporting, data mining, and analysis tools for management and operational personnel.
2004 – COLT hired Avail to procure and provide project management services to ensure a smooth fleet-wide deployment of a SafetyVision Road Recorder 6000 in-vehicle digital video security system and successful integration into COLT’s daily operation.
2004 – COLT contracted with Avail once again, this time for our 1-2-3 approach for needs assessment, procurement assistance, and systems integration to help them realize their ITS technology vision. Avail began with the initial review of COLT’s existing technologies, procedures, services, and practices. After Avail completed this review Avail Technologies completed the needs assessment portion of the project and after identifying those needs began the task of outlining the COLT procurement specifications and development of the RFP, guiding COLT through the entire procurement process. The result of this effort was COLT’s selection of StrataGen’s ADEPT Computer Aided Registration, Scheduling, and Dispatching System, and Mentor Engineering’s Mobile Data Computer and XGate interfaced to a County-wide MA-COM EDACS trunked voice and data radio system. What makes Avail unique is that COLT maintains one contract with Avail so that we are their single point of contact and we are system integrator responsible for successfully integrating these technologies into COLT’s operation. COLT transitioned to paper-based use of the ADEPT system in November 2005, and to fleet-wide voice radio operation in June 2006. Mobile data use was successfully pilot tested with five vehicles in March 2006; fleet-wide mobile data use is pending completion of final radio system data testing.
http://www.coltbus.org
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