Press Release: January 25, 2008
GPS Fleet Management Helps NFL Keep Track of
Players, Players’ Families and Press Media by Tracking the Buses
They Use for Transportation
PHOENIX, AZ: GPS Fleet Management, a
leading provider of GPS-based fleet management and consulting
services, announced today that they were awarded the contract to
assist the NFL in tracking the transportation vehicles used to
transport the players, players’ families and the media to and
from their hotels and key events.
December 6, 2007, GPS Fleet Management and the
Gameday Management Group entered into a agreement to provide
tracking for a key group of buses used throughout the two weeks
leading up to Super Bowl XLII being played in Glendale, Arizona
on February 4, 2008.
The requirements for the buses was 15 second real-time tracking
while the buses are in motion yet being able to track the buses
when they are turned off and an installation that was not
permanently affixed to the bus (there are over 500 buses used
for the event and a majority are imported from out of town
specifically for this event).
GPS Fleet Management worked closely with Gameday
Management in programming the units specifically to the
Gameday’s operations specifications.
Installation started January 23 and will continue as more
buses enter the Phoenix metropolitan area for the BIG event.
The operations staff at Gameday Management Group’s
operation center in Peoria can now track all of these
transportation vehicles in real-time at their ops center and can
see exactly how far they are from their pick off or drop off
point.
President of GPS Fleet Management, Myron Hammes stated, “We are
very excited to play this role in helping
Super Bowl XLII
be one of the best Super Bowls ever!”