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Article: Napa Valley Uses Satellite Technology to Aid School Bus Safety Efforts; Nextel Phones with GPS Tracking System Installed on NVUSD School Buses.
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- Business Wire
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- May 24, 2005
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NAPA, Calif. -- The Napa Valley Unified School District (NVUSD) and Nextel Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:NXTL) are collaborating to deploy a wireless Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) system on district school buses that will allow administrators to track in real-time the location of all NVUSD buses as they transport children throughout the county. The system will transmit latitude and longitude information to the dispatch center, allowing NVUSD personnel to monitor location information on buses as they pick up and drop-off children along their routes, helping to increase efficiency, reduce operating costs and improve safety.
NVUSD buses transport nearly 1,700 ...