College & Career Readiness

What are the top transportation challenges at school startup? The biggest challenges are routes, drivers and buses. School bus routing is more complex than other routing. District routes can be affected by ongoing school enrollment and by families moving. During the summer, districts experience higher turnover in bus drivers, which can impact startup. Lastly, readying […]

The K12 transportation landscape is getting increasingly complex, as districts wrestle with issues ranging from school choice and questions of equity to how to subsidize mass transit for urban students. In some districts, services that employ parents as drivers have rolled in to fill the gap. In Seattle, Mayor Jenny Durkan has proposed making year-round, […]

Bay Shore Union Free School District, located on the south shore of Long Island and about 50 miles east of New York City, is a small, diverse district of approximately 6,500 students and 8.9 square miles to cover with school transportation. Rich Gallagher, director of transportation and purchasing agent for Bay Shore, used Transfinder starting […]

Turning right on a red light is part of the driving landscape in all 50 states, but school buses generally wait for green. Many states prohibit a right turn on red for a school bus, but Florida’s Manatee County just started a pilot program that lets drivers of the district’s 150 buses go right on […]

There’s no shortage of programs that can help make your district’s busing routes more efficient. The best part is that you don’t need a supercomputer to use them. BusBoss Professional Link to main story: Schools pursue better directions Edulog Routing and Planning First Student Goal Systems GoalBus Seon Max Compass Transpar Transfinder Route Finder Pro […]

Quick quiz: After the buildings, salaries and benefits, what is one of the biggest expenses for most school districts? Chances are that it’s those ubiquitous yellow buses that pick up kids in the morning and return them home (or close to it) after school. With the typical school bus costing between $45,000 and $90,000 a […]