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

Passenger ID tracks student and employee ridership: a card tap at the bus door records each boarding and drop-off, along with the time and the bus's GPS position. School bus operators, employee shuttles 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 can't answer from memory, and a head count at the school comes too late. Each rider taps a card or fob at the door reader when boarding and again when leaving. The reader connects to the GPS tracking device through the IOX port and logs the rider, time and position for each tap.

In the High Point GPS platform, each bus carries a live manifest: who is aboard now, who boarded at which stop, who has not tapped off. You set exceptions as rules like any other, such as a rider still aboard when the bus reaches the yard, a rider off at someone else's stop, or a rider who didn't board on an expected day. Reports by route and by day feed the board's ridership planning, and the contractor's billing where it is per rider.

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

A boarding record is personal information about a child, so the operator sets the rules before issuing the first card. Cards carry an ID number, and the name lives only in the platform. Manifest access is limited to dispatch, the school board's transportation office and the driver's own bus. Parent-app access shows one child to one verified account. Records are kept for the period in the board's retention schedule, then deleted. Quebec boards align this with Law 25 and Ontario boards with MFIPPA, and both usually ask the contractor for a short data-handling statement to attach to the parent consent form. High Point GPS provides that statement with the deployment.

You need a reader at each bus door connected to the GPS tracking device, cards or fobs registered in the platform, your exception rules and, if you want it, the parent-facing add-in. High Point GPS installs Passenger ID for school boards, contractors and shuttle operators across Canada and the United States.