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(PR Wires) PRW: Orbital Selected for $9 Million Transportation Manageme
PRW: Orbital Selected for $9 Million Transportation Management Systems Contract
- San Mateo County Transit District Selects Company's Satellite-Based Vehicle
Location System to Manage 400-Plus Vehicle Fleet -
DULLES, Va., Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:
ORB) announced today that its Transportation Management Systems (TMS)
Division has been selected by the San Mateo County Transit District
(SamTrans) in San Carlos, California for an $8.8 million contract to supply
its state-of- the-art ORBTRAC satellite-based automatic vehicle location
(AVL) system. SamTrans will use Orbital's system to track, monitor and
manage its 412- vehicle fleet, consisting of 316 fixed-route vehicles, 62
paratransit vehicles and 34 support vehicles. Orbital's ORBTRAC system
provides real-time vehicle positioning information that will allow SamTrans
to improve the efficiency of its fleet operations and service to its
customers.
The SamTrans award helps position Orbital as the dominant provider of public
transportation management solutions in Northern California's Silicon Valley
region, following wins in Santa Clara from the Santa Clara Valley
Transportation Authority and in Oakland from the Alameda-Contra Costa
Transit District. Orbital's TMS products are used in some of the country's
largest metropolitan areas, including New York, Chicago, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Houston and Denver.
The ORBTRAC system provides instantaneous vehicle location information
delivered through the U.S. Government's Global Positioning System (GPS)
satellites. This state-of-the-art system, consisting of data processors and
fleet management software, offers such in-vehicle passenger amenities as
digital read-outs and voice annunciation of the next stop on predetermined
routes. It also incorporates an automatic passenger counting system that
gives local authorities the information they need to appropriately schedule
vehicles to meet peak and non-peak passenger demand. The system's
terrestrial- based communications component uses Motorola's next-generation
mobile radios that have already been field-proven for high reliability.
SamTrans General Manager Gerald T. Haugh said, "We are proud to be on the
leading edge of implementing an intelligent transportation system that will
improve reliability and service for San Mateo residents and visitors. With
this new tool from Orbital, we believe that we can encourage more people to
use public transportation, thereby helping to alleviate traffic congestion
and improve air quality."
"The San Mateo County program, coupled with our previous wins in Oakland and
Santa Clara, is helping Orbital to establish a strong presence in Northern
California," said Mr. David L. Mathisen, Vice President and General Manager
of Orbital's TMS Division. "Our ORBTRAC public transit system will enable
SamTrans and other California transit authorities to create a comprehensive
approach to traffic and transit management."
Orbital's TMS business has experienced rapid growth over the past several
years as a result of new contract wins and the 1998 acquisition of Raytheon
Company's transportation management business. Orbital TMS is now the
country's leading supplier of satellite-based AVL systems, generating
annualized revenues of about $50 million and employing over 200 people at
facilities in Germantown and Linthicum, Maryland and State College,
Pennsylvania.
Orbital is one of the largest space and information systems companies in the
world, with 1999 revenues targeted to exceed $900 million. The company,
which is headquartered in Dulles, Virginia, employs over 5,200 people at its
major facilities in the United States, Canada and several overseas
locations. Orbital is the world's leading manufacturer of low-cost space
systems and products, including satellites, launch vehicles, electronics and
sensors, satellite ground systems and software, and satellite-based
navigation and communications products. Through its ORBCOMM and ORBIMAGE
affiliates and ORBNAV subsidiary, Orbital is also a pioneering operator of
satellite-based networks that provide data communications, high-resolution
imagery and automotive information services to customers all around the
world.
/NOTE TO EDITORS: To learn more about Orbital and our TMS business, as well
as to access our recent press releases, please visit the Orbital Sciences
Web site at orbital.com
Information on our California-based TMS customers is also available on the
Web at the following locations:
* San Mateo County Transit District -- samtrans.com
* Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority -- vta.org
* AC Transit (Oakland) -- actransit.dst.ca.us./
/CONTACT: Barron Beneski of Orbital Sciences Corporation, 703-406-5000 or
Beneski.barron@orbital.com/
10:37 EDT
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