DIDCOM Passenger ID: Recording Every Student or Employee Boarding With a Card Tap

School bus operators, employee shuttle services and paratransit providers all get the same call: was the rider on the bus, and where did they get off. A driver with sixty children aboard cannot answer from memory, and a head count at the school is too late. DIDCOM Passenger ID puts a reader at the door; each rider taps a card or fob when boarding and again when leaving; the reader, connected to the GO device through the IOX port, records the rider, the time and the bus's position for each tap.

In MyGeotab, each bus carries a live manifest: who is aboard now, who boarded at which stop, who has not tapped off. Exceptions are rules like any other: a rider who boarded and has not tapped off when the bus reaches the yard, a rider who got off at a stop that is not theirs, a rider who did not board on a day they were expected. Reports by route and by day support the board's ridership planning and the contractor's billing where it is per rider.

Where the operator deploys a parent app, the tap is the notification: boarded at 7:42, off at 8:05 at the school. That is a different and better answer than 'the bus passed your stop', and it is the feature parents ask for once they know it exists. Access is scoped so a parent sees only their own child.

A reader per bus door, connected to the GO device; cards or fobs issued to riders and registered in the platform; and the exception rules and, optionally, the parent-facing add-in. High Point GPS installs Passenger ID for school boards, contractors and shuttle operators in Quebec, Ontario and the northeastern US.