Transportation

INTRODUCTION

Derive Technologies has developed a business practice for the Transportation industry that takes into account your needs in the current global climate, the technological advances in the field and the legacy and new constraints that you face every day and keeps you competitive.

• We are strongly aware that the Transportation industry -- including tourism, air, rail, metropolitan transit, the automotive sector and trucking and shipping -- is experiencing increasing challenges to:
• Globalize.
• Provide more Internet-based services.
• Comply with stricter Federal, state and local regulations.
• Create more transparent and adaptable supply chains.
• Pass along greater cost reductions to consumers.
• We've developed a business practice for the Transportation industry that takes into account your needs in the current global climate, the technological advances in the field and the legacy and new constraints that you face every day and keeps you competitive.
  

TOURISM

• Derive sees technology as an integral part of the current revitalization effort for the business of Tourism. The major initiatives in the industry involve the challenges of:
• Instilling confidence in travelers of the dependability of Tourism today: While exciting them with new dynamism.
• Keeping up with pressures of increased visibility into the costs of travel.
• Meeting escalating requirements for client self service.
• We address these challenges with:
• Powerful infrastructures: To run new software applications that enable you to better interface with clients.
• The development of data streams and storage and retrieval systems: That provide payment and other information to you and to your clients in real-time.
• New digital multimedia applications: That let you push vivid, motion-centric information and  advertising to your customers.

AIR, RAIL, AND MUNICIPAL TRANSPORTATION

• Derive supports you in meeting the various challenges within the present-day passenger Transportation landscape, including:
• Competition in ticketing.
• Increasing per-trip revenue.
• Passing overall price reductions for services to customers: While facing increased costs.
• Increased operational costs of passenger Transportation-related IT infrastructure: More services needed to ensure secure transit, facilities, devices and data.
• Increases in legislation surrounding Transportation: Caused by greater visibility into budgets: For both private and public-sector Transportation concerns.
• We provide a comprehensive array of IT business services to address these issues, including:
• Support for new ticketing solutions: With greater security and faster response through highly cost-effective, virtualized infrastructure and for secure delivery over all devices, including remote machines, terminals, handheld devices and over the web.
• New multimedia interfaces: That enable live tracking of operations.
• Schematic support for transportation operations: Scheduling systems, network operating centers, etc.
• Customized transportation data models: Built by in-house Transportation industry experts, which ensure compliance with ever-changing Federal, state and local regulations.
• IT cost reductions: With better, more responsive services and reduced purchasing cost through strategic relationships with technology manufacturers.

• Commercial Logistics for goods and services now require facilitation that is ever more mobile.
• Derive is aware that, in order to reduce costs of Shipping, Freight and other related services and maintain compliance and health standards, technology must be on-site in any location for:
• Secure, real-time inventory management.
• Health and other environmental controls.
• The provision of services in all environments: Including severe temperature and other extreme conditions
• Our Logistics solutions include:
• Handheld computing devices: That enable real-time data collection from field personnel.
• Cooling and other temperature control devices: That can be administered wirelessly, or, on ships, trucks, planes and more, from central, networked command centers.
• Ruggedized, fully application-imaged laptops and mobile devices: That can handle the demands of any field environment.