TROY, Mich. — Meritor WABCO Vehicle Control Systems announced a strategic partnership with Iteris to streamline and simplify delivery of critical data about vehicle safety and performance to their mutual customers.

Effective immediately, Meritor WABCO fleet customers can use SafetyDirect as a single point of access to monitor and synchronize driver performance data reports on braking, stability control, following distances, and lane-departure warnings for individual drivers as well as the entire fleet. The data includes event location, event date/time/speed, driver/vehicle and odometer reading.

The agreement allows information captured by Meritor WABCO’s SmartTrac and OnGuard active safety systems to be available through Iteris’ SafetyDirect, an online application for analyzing data generated by Iteris’ lane departure warning system.

"Today, North American fleet managers have to cope with greater amounts of information from disparate sources on the vehicle," said Jon Morrison, president and general manager, Meritor WABCO.

The SafetyDirect application uses information transmitted from the vehicle by the fleet’s onboard mobile communications system via leading telematic providers such as Qualcomm and PeopleNet.

SafetyDirect delivers a comprehensive view of the entire fleet, as well as the ability to drill down to detailed information on individual drivers and events, the company says. Fleets can choose from pre-formatted reports or export data to create custom reports. They can compare the performance of drivers within a fleet, even tracking their performance in different trucks, and monitor each driver’s or group’s progress over time.