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GPS tracking system leads to recovery of stolen bus December 16, 2006

Posted by Rich in : GPS tracking and public safety , trackback

GPS tracking systems are typically installed on buses to help keep them on schedule, notify fleet mangers, and keep riders notified about wait times. They aren’t added to deter thefts, which typically isn’t a problem with these large and difficult to hide vehicles. Yet in Ottawa, Canada, a thief decided to make off with a bus that happened to have a GPS tracking system installed:

A transit bus was was idling and unoccupied at the St. Laurent Boulevard transit garage at 3 a.m. Thursday morning, when it went missing.

But police used the satellite tracking device, or GPS, and found it at 4:23 a.m., abandoned near the intersection of Leitrim and Hall roads in the city’s far southeast end.

OC Transpo security superintendent Jim Babe said the stolen bus was one of 750 in OC Transpo’s fleet of 900 that have been equipped with GPS since the city started installing the satellite tracking devices earlier this year.

Via The Map Room

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1. jennifer enochs - February 16, 2007

im wondering if you have something for dogs, i just bought a teddy bear (zuchon) and im looking for a chip like lojack or coller, incase of it getting stolen. and if you do how much is it?

hey do you have teenager lojacks? just kidding

2. Rich - February 16, 2007

Jennifer,

This is the only halfway decent thing i know of and it doesn’t look that good. Global Pet Finder GPS Tracking Device for Pets

Garmin coming out with this Garmin Astro 220 GPS Based Dog Tracking System for Multiple Users , but not till the second quarter of this year. I expect that we will see decent (i.e., small and waterproof) pet trackers, but not till later this year.