Abstract: A vehicle monitoring system to detect driver alertness and enhance passenger safety is provided. The system includes a global positioning system connected to the bus and able to generate positioning data associated with the bus, an accelerometer gyroscope connected to the bus and able to generate 3-axis acceleration, heading, roll and yaw data associated with the bus, a plurality of vision sensors connected to the bus and able to generate passenger data associated with the bus, and a computing device affixed to the bus and able to store and transmit the positioning data, 3-axis acceleration data, heading data, roll data, yaw data, passenger data, bus compartment access data, and driver identification data to a central server via a communication device to enable an analysis to detect driver alertness and enhance passenger safety.