PHCloud - The Powerful Yet Affordable Private Hire Booking & Operations System
Roeville continues to make great strides in the Bus and Coach world with its market leading cloud-based application - PHCloud.
This innovative private hire booking and contract management product continues to evolve and provides a welcome alternative to the traditional and more expensive desktop based alternatives. Incredibly feature-rich and completely state of the art, PHCloud is in use by a wide and growing cross-section of well-known UK operators.
Fully hosted and highly secure, the application can be accessed with ease from anywhere and any device with an internet connection. Furthermore, PHCloud provides exceptional value with the entry level package available from just £45 per month on a rolling 30-day agreement. With inclusive support, no up-front charges, unlimited users, bookings and contracts and no hidden costs – it’s a no brainer!
We use the very latest implementation of Here Maps®, a world leader in transportation planning and routing trusted by the likes of Microsoft, Amazon, Mercedes and many more. This provides real-time PSV specific mapping and routing throughout quotes, bookings and operations whilst the Intuitive drag/drop scheduling with clear visualisation, makes light work of organising daily driver and vehicle rosters.
Highly reliable and easy to use Android and IOS Drivers Applications with Diary and walk around defect check functionality. Driver’s diary allows remote communication of job and contract details whilst away from the depot including remote job acceptance and accurate pickup/drop point mapping and routing.
The fully compliant and easy to use walk around check features include unique vehicle templates, off- line/limited signal buffering, both written and photo defect submission and immediate PHCloud user notification when defects are reported.
PHCloud really is the perfect end-to-end Bookings, Operations and Finance solution for operators of all fleet sizes. To find out more, come and visit us on stand E10 at Euro Bus Expo 2022 at the NEC, where we will have personal demonstrations and show-exclusive offers.
Jema electrifies the longest bus line in London
The project has been used to validate the future corridor of opportunity charging points planned for London.
The United Kingdom has approved the implementation of a corridor with opportunity charging points for electric city buses throughout the country. In this sense, and in order to validate in advance the operation of this future corridor, the installation of charging equipment on a specific line of electric buses in London has been approved.
In this scenario Jema Energy has been contracted by London’s largest bus operator for the electrification of the London bus line 358 which runs approx. 16 miles (longer than standard).
The e-mobility solution implemented by Jema Energy was the installation of two opportunity charging stations using inverted pantographs and fire detection and extinguishing systems, which made the electrification of the line a reality. In this way, buses are fully charged at the start of each day and use a pantograph to charge via overhead wires at the end of the route at Orpington and Crystal Palace, the two ends of the route.
This has been the first route in London to use this technology.
Technical characteristics of the charging stations supplied:
Two charging stations comprising a 500 kW charger feeding the buses via an OppCharge inverted pantograph, as well as a set of auxiliary systems for monitoring, control and protection.Equipped with protection systems such as dual power supply with automatic changeover for sensitive elements, UPS and fire detection and extinguishing modules.
About Jema
Jema Energy is a leader in the technology that is writing the future of energy innovation. With more than 65 years' experience in energy conversion systems, Jema Energy has been at the forefront of innovation in the design and manufacture of energy conversion systems. As a result, Jema supplies complete turnkey systems to achieve the best performance and minimise operating and maintenance costs in the field of energy conversion.
Ardent Group announces brand integration of vehicle safety division Forman
Safety expert Ardent Group has announced it will officially transition Forman Vehicle Services, its public vehicle specialist division, into the Ardent brand in a relaunch taking place at the Euro Bus Expo in November.
Forman was acquired by Ardent Group in May 2019, providing Forman with the global infrastructure support and bolstered supply chain it needed to grow. Since then, it has operated as a division of Ardent. Now, the two brands will become one, sharing a unified message and voice.
Welcoming the move, Neil Crowther, Managing Director of Ardent, said, “We’re delighted that Forman is formally transitioning and adopting the Ardent brand. The expertise and vehicle safety specialism of Forman’s staff has been a tremendous asset to us since they joined the Ardent family in 2019. We now feel the time is right to unify our brand messages and speak with a single voice.
“As one of the biggest events of its kind in the world, the Euro Bus Expo is the perfect setting for us to launch our integrated brand. We’ll get to combine the strengths of both brand identities and our customers in the bus industry and beyond will get the exceptional service and support that they expect from Ardent going forward.”
Ardent has been renowned as a world leader in industrial fire suppression for decades. Its acquisition of Forman in 2019 allowed it to further develop into a complete safety solutions provider with a diverse product portfolio that offers a wide variety of safety and accessibility systems to a broad range of sectors.
Crowther added, “This strategic move to unify our brands helps us to further develop our global footprint. Ardent is now an international brand that serves many different sectors with various vehicle safety and electronic solutions, and we feel it is only right that we speak with one voice in every market. This will help us better communicate with both new and existing customers, no matter what their needs are or where they are based.
“We now have one voice and one message; ‘We are Ardent and we are First for Safety’. We look forward to sharing this message across the world, and there is no better place to start than at Euro Bus this November.”
Ardent’s leading range of safety solutions for buses and coaches include automatic fire suppression, pedal safety, vehicle diagnostics, and accessibility systems, including an induction loop hearing aid system to ensure hearing aid users can receive important announcements from bus drivers. All of these solutions and more will be exhibited at Ardent’s booth on stand D26, at the Birmingham NEC between 1-3 November.