Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Avego's Network Operations Center
Avego's centralized network operations
center (NOC) is responsible for monitoring the use of Avego's
products, ensuring network reliability and providing detailed
reports to customers.
The NOC will also generate messages for users of AvegoTM Shared Transport,
to inform them about new service availability in their area.
Robbie O'Sullivan recently joined Avego as the manager of
Avego's NOC and its four-person staff.
Already we have seen ticketing volumes grow from tens of
thousands of dollars in January to hundreds of thousands of
dollars, said Robbie. This is projected to reach a couple of
million dollars in volume by the end of the year. To handle this
exploding volume, we need to beef up our servers and management
processes.
Avego's usage volume has been growing on average by 50%
month-on-month. The number of iPhone users is on track to reach
tens of thousands by the end of the year.
For further information about the NOC, you can e-mail Robbie at .
- Download our new Quick Start Guide for
drivers here >>
- Learn more about Avego Shared Transport here >>
- Download the Avego iPhone app for free here >>
- Create an Avego account here >>
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New Office in Silicon Valley
Avego has just opened a new office located
in Silicon Valley, California, which is led by Paul Steinberg, who
has joined Avego as Director of Sales, Americas.
Paul is responsible for sales of FuturefleetTM
to private and public operators and will also be involved in
establishing pilots of AvegoTM Shared Transport.
Paul is a graduate of the University of Texas, Austin, and served
most recently as Vice President of Business Development at Soonr.
He has also held executive sales and business development
positions with organizations such as Brio Technology, MapInfo, IBM
and TopTier Software.
If you would like to contact Paul, you can e-mail him at .
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Funding for Futurefleet
On April 13th President Obama and Vice
President Biden visited the Department of Transportation to
announce the 2,000th transportation project to be granted funding
under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009 (ARRA) in
just 41 days.
Transit agencies can now apply for grants using ARRA funding to
implement FuturefleetTM,
Avego's real-time management system for passenger transit
operators.
As an ITS technology for transit, FuturefleetTM is an
eligible expenditure under the Transit Capital Assistance for
Urbanized and Non-Urbanized Areas. FTA grants under the ARRA are
100% federally-funded, with no local match required.
Additionally, funding can be sought through the Department of
Energy's energy and environment block grant program. The ARRA
included $2.8 billion in formula funds to cities, counties, and
states to help reduce energy consumption. FuturefleetTM
is an eligible use of those funds. More information about this
program can be found here.
The stimulus package also included over $400 million discretionary
grants for this program.
Recipients of Federal-aid highway funds may also flex their
highway dollars received under ARRA for use on transit projects
such as FuturefleetTM.
Designed to suit needs ranging from a small coach fleet operator
to a large public transit authority with thousands of vehicles,
FuturefleetTM is a complete end-to-end solution that
provides a comprehensive range of features for enhancing operations
services, passenger
services and in-vehicle
services.
FuturefleetTM is available at breakthrough pricing
levels up to ten times more affordable than previously available
to the industry.
If you are interested in partnering with Avego to secure any of
the funding described above, please contact Avego's Director of
Government Relations, .
- Learn more about Futurefleet here >>
- Watch a screencast on Futurefleet's
operations services here >>
- Watch a video demonstration of
Futurefleet here >>
- Learn more about ARRA funding of
transportation projects here >>
- Watch a video of President Obama's full
address at the Department of Transportation here >>
- If you are interested in learning more
about our Futurefleet pilot program, please .
- If you know somebody who might be
interested in Futurefleet, please forward
them this newsletter.
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