Features & Benefits
These are some of the key features that Depot Manager offers you.
Electronic Ticketing
- Electronic Ticketing Machine (ETM) and Smart Electronic Ticketing Machine (Smart-ETM) helps reduce pilferage and maintain data electronically. These devices are hand-held and easy to operate.
- Conductor-less operation with cashless ticketing using validators.
- Prepaid smart card based ticketing to minimize cash transaction. The smart cards have a recharge option.
- Secured smart card key generation and management.
Routing and Fare Structure
- Complicated non-linear routes (single loop, double loop) are easily managed.
- Feature for trip break, continue, cancel, contract buses, school trips can be enabled / disabled.
- Easy setting of the business rules such as free tickets, vigilance option.
- Fare structure for various bus types are classified depending on passenger types such as adult, child, student, pensioner / disabled, police, employees, employee spouse. Passenger type ticket issuing can be enabled / disabled.
Staff management
- Crew change option. Conductor cash tracking when crew change feature is enabled.
- Employee information maintenance.
Graphical MIS
- Consolidated information available from various depots at the central / head office using Dialup / ISDN / Intranet connection.
- These detailed and summarized reports (depot-wise and consolidated), are used by management, traffic department, finance department for decision-making and effective bus and crew scheduling.
- E.g.: Conductor statistics and trip summary reports.
Information and Vigilance
- Depot Manager is an Internet based system accessible from any location by the authorized personnel.
- Ticket issued using ETM or Smart-ETM has valuable information like ETM number, date, time, trip number, type, route of traveling, boarding and alighting stage, conductor and driver number, which is transferred to the PC using Depot Manager Application Software.
- The information printed on the ticket is very useful for the vigilance department to decide the validity of the ticket. If the ticket with this information is reused by the conductor it can be identified immediately. Thus pilferage and illegal ticket issuing is minimized.
- The conductor has information regarding the cash box and on-board passengers instantly.
ETM Features
- AC/DC battery charger, recharging on-fleet and off-fleet facility.
- 24 column fast thermal printer for ticket printing.
- Equipped with RTC and back-up memory.
- USB/Serial device communication support.
Other features
- Supports scheduled as well as non-scheduled public road transport organizations.
- Easy to deploy user friendly setup.
- Data backup-restore utility for data maintenance.
- Inter road transport corporation smart card support, for easy travel and commuter benefit.
- Supports English, German, Spanish and French languages.