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Today Telematics is Telematics of Vehicle Tracking stoppage, Driver performance,
important for vehicle System: Feedback dashboard & Emergency
tracking dashboard, Headway Chart and
• Initially, in APSRTC for enabling
APSRTC implemented Vehicle the vehicle tracking for the Auto Announcement Dashboard.
Tracking system in the year 2015 for its buses, Vehicle Mounting Units You mentioned
entire fleet with a dedicated tracking (VMUs) were fixed inside the
device which is now integrated with buses wherein the units are organizational
the ticketing device in the new model. installed with SIM Cards. The restructuring…
Needless to say, VT&PIS (Vehicle data packets are transferred The Organization structure of
Tracking and Passenger Information from the VMUs to the servers and APSRTC was modified initially in the
Sytem) is an essential value addition accordingly the data is compiled year 1994 by creating Zones which
to the mobility services a transport for projecting the ETAs, statistics, are headed by the Officers of the
organisation provides. It helps the various reports and analytics. rank of Executive Director controlling
passenger to know the details of • In the Unified Ticketing Solution three Regions in each Zone. Each
live buses running on a route, the (UTS) project, the utilisation of revenue District is generally defined
Expected Time of Arrival(ETA) of the VMUs is discarded and a new as Region which is coterminous with
bus at a bus station, track the bus concept is adapted. The ePoS the District administration, except
in real time etc., Several MIS reports devices were introduced and been NEC Region consisting of SKLM and
can be generated for analysis by the utilised as a multipurpose android VZM Districts. All the Depots falling
field managers. device being used for issuing in the revenue District are kept under
tickets, GPS polling, real time data the administrative control of Regional
Manager of the Region. Regional
syncing with central server etc.
Managers are assisted by Senior
• Through the ePoS device, the GPS Managers (2-4) to monitor the OPD,
packet data is being transmitted MED etc., activities in the Region.
and the coordinates are captured. Later, in the year 2022,
The data is transmitted to the Government of AP delineated
server and the data is being used the existing 13 districts into 26
for compilation and projection Districts in the state of Andhra
of the ETAs, statistics, various Pradesh. Accordingly, APSRTC
reports and analytics. (This model was restructured in to four zones
is implemented in APSRTC for the and 26 Districts to be functioned
first time in India).
in coterminous with new districts
VTS facility enables APSRTC to know formed by the AP government.
the live and vital information on aspects In the present model, the state
like Departure & Arrival punctuality, Government absorbed all the
Driver performance, Skipping of bus APSRTC employees as State
stops by crew,Trip-wise actual running Government employees and took
time, Currently running services, care of the wage bill. At the same
Details of Route deviations, Bunching time the functional autonomy of
of buses on routes, Un-authorized APSRTC in conducting its business
stoppage, Vehicle status, Feedback is preserved which is the best
and Emergency. model to be replicated else where
Some of the MIS reports What is the fleet
provided through VT&PIS Module capacity and what are
include reports on Departure/
arrival punctuality, Arrival delay the special features of
summary, Trip wise actual the buses?
running time, Bus stops skipped, APSRTC is having 10,914 buses
Route deviation, Unauthorized (RTC: 8,266 & Hire Bus: 2648).

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