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Three Quarters of a Million Drivers Illegally Pass School Buses Every Day
WASHINGTON-(Business Wire)-July 1, 2008 - Peter Mannella, Executive Director of the 600 Member New York Association for Pupil Transportation (NYAPT) told Finmeccanica North America in a just released Podcast that three quarters of a million drivers illegally pass school buses every day. In New York State there are about 80,000 violations daily based on new evidence gathered by the NYAPT and the New York Governor's Traffic Safety Committee that sponsored the project that installed the Elsag Mobile Plate Hunter in a Syracuse, New York school bus.
Passing a stopped school bus with emergency and stop flashing lights on is against the law and it endangers the lives of school children getting on and off school buses.
The Elsag Mobile Plate Hunter is the world's most popular and effective license plate reading system. It is able to identify vehicles approaching vehicles in any direction, capture the license plate information, provide a photo of the vehicle, record its exact location and time of violation and provide the information to the police and law enforcement organizations. The data in the Mobile Plate Hunter has been successfully used in criminal prosecutions, including at least one murder conviction.
The Podcast featuring Peter Mannella is available on the Finmeccanica website (www.finmec.com ), on Typepad (www.typepad.com/finmeccanica, on Wildvoice (www.wildvoice.com/Finmeccanica) and at other locations on the internet.
Peter Mannella heads the 600 member New York Association for Public Transportation. He has a long and distinguished career in public service with an early concentration on education, training and employment policy. He was involved in many state and national commissions and task forces relating to education, employment, total quality system and workforce improvement policies and program.
As NYAPT head, Peter helped to enact more than 30 pieces of legislation including those relating to training for school bus drivers, initiatives related to illegal passing of school buses and a variety of technology and school bus equipment laws. He is both an advocate and an expert on school bus safety issues.
The NYAPT is a tax exempt organization. There are about 50,000 school buses in New York state that transport 2.3 million children to and from school on every school day.
Elsag North America, a Finmeccanica company, manufactures and sells the Mobile Plate Hunter series of advanced license plate readers. The system is used across the United States and worldwide.
About ELSAG North America
Remington ELSAG is a Finmeccanica company, a global leader in Defense and Security solutions. Remington ELSAG was created to focus on the development and North American distribution of proprietary license plate recognition technology which ELSAG originally developed for Italy's law enforcement agencies. ELSAG North America is headquartered in Brewster, N.Y. For more information about the company and its License Plate Recognition technology, visit www.elsagnorthamerica.com or call President Mark Windover at 866-9MPH900 (967-4900).
About Finmeccanica, SpA
Based in Rome, Finmeccanica S.p.A. is Italy's largest aerospace and defense group, a key player in European industry, and has a growing position in North America.
Finmeccanica S.p.A. is listed on the Milan stock exchange. The Italian Ministry of the Economy owns 32.3% of its shares and the remainder is held by foreign and Italian investors. To maintain and develop its technological leadership position, Finmeccanica invests over 14% of its revenues in Research and Development.
Finmeccanica has a leading capability both as platform maker and system integrator: network-centric solutions, satellite services, homeland security and EEZ management systems, pilots training, air traffic management and control, C4ISR, naval combat management systems.
Finmeccanica provides systems and products for government agencies and commercial customers and its core competency are widely recognized by the market. The company's key objective is to strengthen its aerospace and defense portfolio in order to develop and exploit industrial, technological and commercial opportunities.
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