INDUSTRY CASE STUDY:
MASS TRANSIT AUTHORITIES

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Industry Challenge

The growth and increasing density of urban areas has made our largest cities reliant on a functioning, efficient, and safe mass transit systems to move a large number of people to their home, employment, or commercial areas by means of bus, ferry, or rail . When a disruption occurs, whether by technical failure, purposeful act, or natural disaster, the impact extends far beyond the particular line of service and can affect the entire community.  For this reason, mass transit authorities rely on proper planning, standard operating procedures, and training to maintain the safety and security of the system, identify areas of capital improvement, and expand operations where practical. 

Odysseus Solutions

Odysseus Offers a Programmatic Solution for Mass Transit Authorities

Odysseus™ | kms

The Odysseus™|KMS provides mass transit authorities with a central repository where plans and other preparedness doctrine can be accessed and shared by staff and partners.  The secure yet flexible virtual collaborative environment allows for the efficient development, maintenance, and update of planning doctrine.
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ODYSSEUS™ | CPM

The Odysseus™|Compliance Metric Tools are a data-driven, assessment that allows mass transit authorities the ability to systematically evaluate the compliance to various governmental and industry recognized programs. 

ODYSSEUS™ | AAT

The Odysseus™ | AAT offers mass transit authorities the ability to develop customized assessment tools that can be used to evaluate, assess, and understand their level of security and program trends.

ODYSSEUS™ | cbt

​The Odysseus™|CBT allows for the delivery and tracking of learning across the Odysseus™ enterprise. Your programs, courses and exercises can be harmonized with your planning and security efforts while facilitating your strategy to deliver training and exercise content to your target audience.

Featured Best Practices

• Planning
• Training
• Exercises
• Compliance
• Capability & Vulnerability Analysis
• Committee Management

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Mass Transit Planning

The Odysseus™ | KMS gives mass transit operators an online tool dedicated to the development and maintenance of operating procedures, plans, and programs.  Odysseus™|KMS offers mass transit authorities with the unique feature of providing standardization and flexibility in a collaborative environment.  This union greatly increases the capabilities by efficiently and effectively enabling mass transit authorities to design, develop, maintain, and continually improve operations, security, and capital improvements.  

Customized Courses & Training Management

The Odysseus™|CBT plug-in provides organizations with an integrated learning management system that allows administrators to more effectively deliver and measure understanding of programs across the Odysseus™ enterprise.  Odysseus™|CBT provides a platform to deliver and manage customized computer-based training, track course assessments, award certificates upon course completion, and in-depth reporting of learner progress and understanding. 

Exercise Simulations

 Designed from the Odysseus™|CBT framework, the Odysseus™ Exercise Simulator incorporates cutting-edge media technology to  deliver an interactive, best practice solution to accurately test and validate your organization's operational and programmatic strategies, while effectively engaging participants in important exercises..  Exercise designers can build an interactive community profile, visualize disaster impacts, and experience real-world crisis decision-making. The Odysseus™ Exercise Simulator provides an easy-to-use, turnkey solution to accurately test and validate your community's operational and programmatic strategies, while engaging stakeholders and impressing your community leadership.

Integrated Regulatory & Industry Compliance Tools

The Odysseus™|CPM offers a library of compliance metric tools that allow users to validate their plans programs against federal, state, and industry requirements and regulations.  The Odysseus™|CPM offers data-driven, assessment that allows mass transit authorities the ability to systematically evaluate the compliance to various governmental and industry recognized programs and present their findings in established reports and analytics.

Mass Transit Capability & Vulnerability Assessments

Designed from the Odysseus™|AAT architecture, the Odysseus platform offers a customized Capability & Vulnerability Assessments tool that is compliant with industry standards and federal regulations.  Mass transit owners can assess their system's capabilities and vulnerabilities, and integrate the results into a comprehensive community hazard risk analysis using the Odysseus™|CVR2 framework.

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Committee Management

In today’s environment of fiscal efficiency, limited availability of resources, and the necessity to balance competing demands, it is imperative that the engagement of assigned work groups and key stakeholders is efficient and effective. The committee management tool within the Odysseus™|KMS will assist in documenting the planning process, provide a method of on-going committee collaboration, offer an archival repository of planning meeting minutes and information, and ensure the active participation of committee members and key stakeholders throughout the life-cycle of the planning process.