Student Information

Students are entered into BusBoss^TM either electronically through importing or individually by you. An add student wizard helps you to enter all student information needed for routing.

BusBoss^TM has complete accountability for students. The system allows you to store an unlimited number of addresses for a student. Each address is given a user-defined description. The addresses are then assigned to days of the week, either pick-up and/or drop-off. With BusBoss^TM, students can be assigned to different stop locations, different buses, and different schools for each day of the week, both pick-up and drop-off, if needed.

Students are assigned to bus stops either automatically or manually through the map. If a student is automatically assigned to a bus stop that is not currently serviced by a bus, BusBoss^TM allows you to change the current stop assignment, or edit a route to include their stop.

Students are automatically assigned as walkers based on user-defined walk-to-school distances. Students are automatically assigned to bus stops based on user-defined walk-to-stop distances. These distances are unique for each school. Students can be assigned to bus stops if they live in a school’s walk zone but they need to ride because of hazardous conditions.

Track student incidents using BusBoss^TM. Each incident records the date, person reporting, description of the incident, and action taken. Incident reports can be printed by student or by driver.

BusBoss^TM has a graduation utility that automatically promotes students from one grade to another, moves students to the appropriate schools, deletes 12^th graders, deletes inactive students, and retains or changes transportation information accordingly.

Students that attend schools outside of the district are not treated differently than students attending district schools. Bus routes for all students in BusBoss^TM are generated in the same way.

Special Education Routing

BusBoss^TM has the ability to graphically display bus stops and house locations of students with special needs. Routing functions are the same for special education routes as for regular routes.

Students with special needs can be assigned individual load delay times so that the time at their bus stop is increased based on how long it takes them to get on or off the bus.

Driver Information

BusBoss^TM tracks driver information including name, address, phone numbers (home, work, cell, pager, email), license (driver's license number and expiration, bus license number and expiration), employment (date of birth, hire date, termination date, current salary), background checks performed, recertification date, user-defined violations with date and description, user-defined testing (certifications) with date, result, and description, and user-defined absences with date and description.

Reports can be generated (for individual drivers or for all drivers) for retrieving driver employment information, driver violations, driver testing, and driver absences and to inform you when re-certifications are due.

Redistricting

One of the most valuable sets of tools are the planning features in BusBoss^TM. Combined with the ability to create unlimited sets of school boundaries for redistricting scenarios, transportation officials and other district administrators can easily display demographic splatters representing a host of variables. BusBoss^TMwill tell you the names and grades of all the students in each zone you create.