Buses to have driver safety app installed

[Ismini Vlassopoulou/Intime News]

Transportation authorities are implementing caller information measures pursuing a bid of accidents involving Athens nationalist transit vehicles, including aggregate incidents where buses rolled uncontrolled owed to improperly engaged handbrakes.

The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport plans to deploy the O7Drive app, developed by a Greek team, to show operator behavior. The exertion tracks parameters including excessive speed, harsh braking, mobile telephone use during driving, and sudden maneuvers. “There is nary punitive volition toward drivers, it is simply a tool for bully supervision of their driving behavior,” ministry sources said.

The inaugural follows respective troubling incidents. Most recently, a tram collided with a autobus connected way 040, causing insignificant injuries to passengers and some drivers. On July 4, a superior mishap occurred successful Voula when a autobus from the Athens Transport Consortium crashed into a 2nd vehicle connected the aforesaid route, injuring much than 50 people. The operator reportedly felt unwell, prompting transit workers to publically kick astir exhausting work schedules.

The ministry says it has forwarded these complaints to the autarkic labour inspection assemblage for due checks.

Five days aft the Voula crash, different consortium autobus rolled uncontrolled for 150 meters connected Vouliagmenis Avenue aft the operator near the vehicle for idiosyncratic needs without engaging the handbrake. In Menidi, a akin handbrake nonaccomplishment caused a autobus to rotation into a restaurant’s storefront.

On August 18, an OSY autobus rolled backward into an flat gathering balcony and a parked αυτοκίνητο successful Papagou. A technical committee determined the mishap resulted from quality error, concluding “the operator engaged the handbrake, but not correctly.”

Starting October, the monitoring app will beryllium piloted with prime transit drivers. Authorities besides program installing sensors connected MAN vehicles that forestall compartment doors from opening unless handbrakes are decently engaged, expanding this technology to different buses adjacent year.