RidePilot is an open-source, web-based transportation scheduling system designed to meet the needs and budgets of smaller public and nonprofit specialized transportation agencies.
Efficiently scheduling trips while tracking and managing grant reporting requirements can be challenging for agencies.
RidePilot can help ease these challenges by empowering small agencies to create, manage, track, and schedule vehicles, drivers, customers, trips, runs, and reports through an easy-to-use interface and underlying database.
Track Driver, Vehicle and Customer Information. Track a range of information from recurring compliance events such as drivers’ license renewals, to vehicle data such as status of recurring maintenance requirements, make, model, year and current mileage.
Set Up Runs. Track the operation of a specified vehicle, by a selected driver, over a given period of time.
Create Trips. Using RidePilot, customers can create a one-time or recurring trip from a specified pickup location to a selected drop off destination.
Flexible Scheduling. RidePilot makes it easy for agency schedulers and dispatchers to assign trips to drivers’ runs and make changes to the schedule throughout the day, as needed.
Reporting. Agencies can store and maintain all of the data needed to manage day to day operations and generate information for ongoing grant requirements.
Transportation agencies can enter and track information about their customers, drivers and vehicles, create one-time or recurring trips and runs, and create daily schedules.
Each agency within a RidePilot deployment can customize how the system works based on its operations. For example, each agency can specify its driver compliance rules and vehicle maintenance schedules.
Unlike proprietary commercial systems, RidePilot is open source and not subject to ongoing licensing fees. Once a RidePilot deployment is up and running, it does not cost anything to add additional agencies. The system requires configuration, hosting, support and maintenance that could be outsourced or handled by an in-house IT Department.
Another advantage of open-source is that it can support a nationwide community of transportation partners to develop and enhance RidePilot over time, so all agencies mutually benefit from one another’s investment in the platform.
RidePilot is a responsive web-based application designed to operate on personal computers and tablets. It supports the current and immediately previous versions of the four major web browsers (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari and Firefox). It can be securely hosted via Amazon Web Services, or hosted via a client IT facility. It is built using Ruby, Ruby on Rails, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery and Bootstrap.