Connected buses

Zone Management is a connected service developed from traditional geofencing. It means that vehicles automatically can comply with specific requirements within a geographically defined zone. Possible actions can be either automated or a request to the driver to adjust driving behaviour and take action accordingly.

Volvo Connect is the portal for your Volvo Bus services. All connected services, vehicle and driver data as well as workshop services – all in one place.

Your buses and coaches should be on the road. Always on time and arriving on schedule. To maximise productive hours, you’d want to know health and status of every vehicle. And with that knowledge, planning of maintenance and service can be so much more efficient.

Real-time machine-to-machine communication will fundamentally change a lot in our lives. With 5G, and its future successors, vehicles can communicate and interact directly with virtually any type of device, such as pedestrians’ smartphones, bicycles, traffic lights, weather sensors and so on, enabling services for increased safety and smooth traffic flow.

Just like when broadcasting migrated to streaming services, we can expect a similar development in public transport whereby traffic is more based on real-time passenger demand. Connectivity and automated functions can help fundamentally redefine bus traffic with customer-driven deployment and dynamic route planning.

Artificial intelligence and ultra-fast data streams open up the possibility of a quantum leap in operational efficiency and availability. With routines for just-in-time maintenance and event-based re-deployment of vehicles, over-arching and fleet-wide optimisation can be achieved.