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Transit Bus

More than 35,000 Tait radios are in use in buses around the world, from the busiest parts of London to the remote outback of Australia.

Tait has listened to feedback from many of these operators and incorporated a number of suggestions into the design of products and solutions for the transit bus industry.

Safety is of paramount importance to operators, with both customers and staff benefiting from many of the features incorporated into these products.  A Tait solution can also help to maintain timetable compliance, thus improving the quality of the service delivered to the customer.

Data capability can be enabled within all mobile products. This includes:

• Automatic Vehicle Location information (AVL)
• Passenger counting
• Real Time Passenger Information services (RTPI)
• Driver messaging including headway notification
• Vehicle performance and pre-fault alarming

School Bus

Tait has partnered with some leading bus industry integrators to provide safety-enhancing mobile radio communications solutions for school bus services, ensuring situations on buses can be dealt with quickly and efficiently.

Safety and security

Tait has incorporated advanced safety features within our mobile radio products to improve the safety and security of children using school buses.

These features include:

• Covert panic buttons
• Built in location services
• Stealth alarm transmissions
• Hands-free transmit and receive in emergency mode
• Listen-in microphones options
• Remote control inputs and outputs

The advanced feature set includes:

• One touch telephone-patch operation
• Traffic light control
• Pager messaging

All these features are available in a radio that meets many of the military specification (MIL SPEC 810) requirements, ensuring a rugged and reliable mobile radio unit.