Benefits of Tait Solutions for Bus Transport

Reliability

Across a wide customer range, Tait solutions are renowned for their reliability.  In a world where health and safety concerns are now paramount, ensuring that drivers and controllers can communicate at all times is crucial and using a truly reliable Tait solution is a key factor in achieving this.

Reliability factors include:

• Testing beyond tough military standards (MIL-STD810F)
• Mobiles and portables rated at IP54 and IP67 respectively
• Conservative power rating

Proven capability

Tait knows the public transport sector: it has been working in it for 40 years.  This level of experience brings with it an unrivalled understanding of the many differing requirements worldwide and how to meet them. 

The list of high-profile Tait customers in the public transport sector is long and includes:

Total cost of ownership

This factor has become more important over recent years, as organisations take a longer term view of their expenditure.  Tait also takes a long term view, understanding that equipment is expected to last many years.

Tait solutions help operators and integrators to protect their investment by offering:

• Mobiles and portable terminals which are reliable and easy to maintain
• Excellent technical support for all solution elements
• Robust system design and implementation

Value of ownership

Tait recognises the value of operators being in control of their own, dedicated communications networks. Recent events around the world have shown how, in times of crisis, third party infrastructure is often overloaded or damaged beyond immediate repair. This can be the very time that transport operators are called upon to assist civil authorities or handle extraordinary demand.

The benefits of self-ownership are:

• Predictable low ongoing costs
• Control during times of crisis
• Even if infrastructure is unavailable vehicle to vehicle communications is possible

Future-proofing

Tait continues to closely monitor developments in the public transport sector. Work is ongoing  to address possible future requirements in its solutions.  Total future-proofing is not, of course, feasible, but working with a partner, such as Tait, which has close links to the market and understands how technologies are developing is an important step and will help to safeguard investments.

Tait follow future developments through:

• Regular contact with industry bodies around the world
• Consultation with regulators
• Work on communications standards committees
• Involvement with advanced research facilities