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For a modern school transportation office, few investments could pay off better than purchasing new school bus routing software. Systems for routing, tracking, and maintaining your bus fleet are getting better every year. The investment can easily pay off with reduced costs, year after year, as well as numerous other benefits - like improving bus safety.
However, many school officials are leery of any extra expenditures, as costs continue to increase. To 'sell' your principal or school board on the idea, you need to focus on how the investment will pay off over time.
How Can I Convince The Board To Buy Bus Software?
1 - Cutting routes in a sustainable way
Schools are starting to cut bus routes as a desperation measure to stretch their transportation budget - but all too often, this is done haphazardly, leaving many families without reliable school transportation. Or else creating a nightmare traffic jam every morning and afternoon, as parents have to drive to school directly.
However, smart routing software can often find so many optimizations that it becomes possible to cut one or more routes without leaving anyone behind. That's pure cost savings, with no drawbacks.
You might even be able to sell off the unneeded buses!
2 - Improving attendance - and reporting!
Your school's state funding undoubtedly relies on high attendance numbers, so you want every possible student attending. Well-optimized bus routes help ensure students show up every day, especially if those routes are short. Studies have even shown that long bus routes decrease attendance, for obvious reasons.
Better yet, the software can make it easier to track student attendance, and produce proper reports. You can reduce the chances of human error harming your funding.
3 - Reducing on-road expenses
If your bus routing software is also tracking those buses on-route, you get access to a huge amount of data on your buses' performance, as well as driver performance. If a driver is behaving in fuel-inefficient ways, such as hard acceleration and braking, you'll see it - and the impact it has on your fuel costs.
Likewise, if a bus suddenly starts showing lowered fuel efficiency with no clear cause, that usually indicates a growing maintenance issue. Spotting and fixing it quickly will save money, and prevent costly breakdowns.
There are numerous ways that school bus routing software can save money. Contact BusBoss to learn more!
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