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asset management case studies
 

Altamonte Springs Police Dept, FL

With a highly active vehicle fleet, officers in the Altamonte Springs Police Department in Florida were reporting 5-7 events per month of unallocated ‘phantom’ vehicle damage in a typical 6 month period.  Average cost of repairs for all body damages (allocated and unallocated) averaged $1800.

For an initial ‘test’, Altamonte Springs PD installed 30 Witness units, and did a regular review of Witness data.

After 6 months of installation, only one event of unallocated property damage had been reported, dramatically reducing overall repair costs.  They estimated a 175% return on investment in the six month trial, and proceeded to install Witness units in their entire fleet.

Desert Cab, Las Vegas, NV

On the busy roads of Las Vegas, Desert Cab was experiencing considerable numbers of accidents (138% on a fleet of 184 cabs) with excessive workers comp claims.  Their ‘Hush Money’ threshold was $5000, and many case settlements were taking in excess of 6 months to resolve, draining considerable time and effort.

Installing 130 Witness units in cabs, Desert Cab instructed drivers on function and benefits of the black box technology.  A visual reminder (in the form of window sticker) was installed in each car to reinforce the ‘halo effect’, causing safer driving because drivers know they are being monitored.

Two years after installation, the average bodily injury payout per claim dropped over 60%, with administrative costs being reduced by 20%.  At his point, Desert Cab doesn’t put a cab on the street without a Witness system installed.

AC Bus Transit, Oakland, CA

With 125 buses operating from each garage, AC Transit in Oakland were paying in excess of $18M annually in Workers Compensation Claims.

With on-bus video often unclear or inconclusive, AC Transit implemented a test of 125 Witness units and a driver training program for all vehicles from a single garage.

Using the single operations garage as a baseline for comparison, AC Transit compared results after six months.

Workers Compensation claims in the test garage had decreased by over 60% and overall accident rates had decreased by over 26%.  AC Transit plans to move the Witness system into their entire fleet.

NASCAR

In the tragic wake of stock car legend Dale Earnhardt's fatal crash, NASCAR dedicated massive resources to determine the cause. Despite the efforts of the world's foremost crash experts, the report only reflected a "best guess" possibility as to what went wrong during Earnhardt's tragic final lap. Real-time crash data from Earnhardt's car was non-existent.

If there’s a venue better suited to the power of the Independent Witness Asset Protection System than auto racing, it would be difficult to imagine. The sheer magnitude of forces inflicted on both car and driver in auto racing demand real world data in order to continuously improve design and enhance safety.

NASCAR officially embraced the use of crash data recorders when it named Independent Witness as the exclusive provider of Incident Data Recording (IDR) technology.

On every NASCAR vehicle, The Witness "black box" is mounted on the steel frame left side rail, at the same level of the driver's hip. The Witness records what is felt by the driver during the dramatic forces that are incurred during a race.

After an accident, or at the conclusion of a race, the recorded data is immediately accessed and analyzed. The information is compiled in NASCAR’s database (designed by IWI) housed in Charlotte, North Carolina. This gives NASCAR the tools to design safer cars and more effective safety devices.

The largest, real-world test of NASCAR's Witness system occurred with the 2002 season opening at the Daytona 500. Twenty-four cars were involved in collisions, including a massive 18-car pileup two-thirds of the way into the race; The Witness black boxes captured full data from every incident.

The Witness met NASCAR's most stringent requirements during extensive testing both off and on the track. As a catalyst for creating a safer racing environment and as a tool for developing state-of-the-art technology, The Witness is already proving its value to NASCAR. Its overall success continues to be measured one crash at a time as new answers - not speculation - are provided to reduce risks. Although the element of danger can never be removed completely from NASCAR, real-world data collected by The Witness may one day make crash fatalities a thing of the past.

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