Common Technology Combinations

Reporting Requirements

Use of an MMS facilitates the record-keeping needed for mandatory reporting required by funding agencies, such as the state or the Federal Transit Administration (FTA).

Maintenance

More advanced MMS are beginning to capture vehicle operating conditions, such as temperature, pressures, and voltages, to support trend analysis for condition-based maintenance and prediction of failure of parts.

More Technology Combinations

Maintenance and Repair

AVL or CAD can be used with MMS to pinpoint vehicles that are in need of repair or are underperforming. Such preventative maintenance allows systems to run more smoothly.

Systems and Service Planning

MMS can be used to collect data about vehicle components such as brakes, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems and to report and store all information centrally to a Mobile Data Terminal (MDT) for further use and analysis.