Product For Schools
Our products help school districts transport students to school safely, reliably and efficiently. We can help you lower the cost of school bus transportation without compromising on the quality you promise to parents and students.
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Multi School Bus Routing
The first fully-automated school bus routing system available anywhere. Our routing system is built with an intuitive transportation management platform and powered by an MIT-developed optimization engine.
We deliver not only safe, efficient bus routes across an entire School District…
…but also satisfied students, parents, drivers, and administrators.
Our multi-school bus routing product includes 6 cutting edge modules to power school district operations and provide parents, students, drivers, and administrators with real-time information.
Multi School Bus Routing
The first fully-automated school bus routing system available anywhere. Our routing system is built with an intuitive transportation management platform and powered by an MIT-developed optimization engine.
We deliver not only safe, efficient bus routes across an entire School District…
…but also satisfied students, parents, drivers, and administrators.
Our multi-school bus routing product includes 6 cutting edge modules to power school district operations and provide parents, students, drivers, and administrators with real-time information.
Routing Engine and Interface
- Optimize routes for all schools holistically, not for single schools independently
- Maximize bus re-utilization rates
- Minimize the number of monitors on-board and keep them on the same bus throughout the day
- Re-optimize routes as needed to address district or student information changes while minimizing changes across the network.
- Fully account for student accommodations (door-to-door service, monitors, etc.)
- Optimize student to stop assignment respecting maximum safe walking distance
- Reduce transportation costs while ensuring safe, reliable transportation
Driver App
- Turn-by-turn directions
- List of stops for each route
- Student list for each stop
- Real-time driver-dispatcher communication
- Live traffic information
Parents & Schools App
- Real time information for parents and school administrators
- Student on-board / off-board notifications
- Route alerts
- Parent / District communications
- Bus arrival notifications
Student Information Management
- Comprehensive student information database
- Easy to update and manage information
- Flexible: manual assignments of students to stops
- Customizable routes for students with special needs
- Real-time alerts to transportation staff
- AI-powered suggestions for route updates & modifications
Fleet, Routes & Monitor Management
- Easy to view and adjust schedules, vehicle types and seating capacities
- Manages multiple providers and garage locations
- Real-time feedback on potential changes to transportation officers and parents.
- Easy to assign vehicles to routes
- Printable turn by turn directions for drivers
- Real-time alerts by route
- Integration with Flexible Routing product
- Performance dashboards
- Extensive operational reports and export to Excel function
Communications Module
- Messages to parents and students via:
- SMS
- Call
- App
- At-scale messages to groups or all parents (weather, school closures, etc.)
- Individual route alerts
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