Teletrac Inc. Partners with Center of Urban Transportation Research
8 June 2000
Partners Work On Automatic Vehicle Location Research
SAN DIEGO - Teletrac Inc. and the Center for Urban Transportation Research at the University of South Florida in Tampa Thursday announced a joint one-year, automatic vehicle location research and development demonstration to begin in June 2000.Teletrac will equip three vehicles -- a USF campus transit shuttle bus, a Hillsborough County traffic sign maintenance truck, and a City of Tampa Department of Public Works street patching truck -- with its wireless vehicle location technology system, Fleet Director Enterprise Edition, and will provide free technical support and training.
The Teletrac system is currently used for fleet management using a modular, scalable Windows program based on Microsoft's NT platform. The tracking system provides real-time vehicle location with on-screen mapping and productivity reports that enable evaluation of a fleet's efficiency, performance and travel patterns.
As the demonstration expands, CUTR will seek to identify and test new traffic engineering/data collection applications such as: automation of travel time data collection, monitoring of vehicle dwell times through classroom evaluations, and eventual funded research through public and private sector sponsorship. This research and development effort will be conducted as part of CUTR's Intelligent Transportation Systems research program.
CUTR is the ninth largest university transportation research center in the United States. Since its establishment in 1988, it has conducted more than 400 research projects, with funding totaling more than $40 million. The Center's 40 full-time researchers have analyzed issues in the areas of transit, intelligent transportation systems, safety, specialized transit, transportation demand management, access management, geographic information systems, transportation finance and administration, and transit procurement and maintenance training, among others.
With more than a decade of experience and over 3,000 commercial fleet customers, Teletrac has been at the forefront of providing comprehensive location and communication solutions to improve fleet productivity. Teletrac currently has intelligent wireless networks in major metropolitan areas across the U.S., now serving approximately 62,000 vehicles. A wide variety of businesses and organizations comprise the company's customer list, including Emery Air Freight Inc., Brinks Inc., the City of Houston, AT&T Cable Services, and the Dallas Independent School District.
Teletrac's recent integration of AT&T wireless IP (CDPD) network with its own proprietary networks will enable the company to not only provide service in its existing 14 major metropolitan markets but will offer growth into an additional 100 markets across the United States in the near future.
