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Modern school bus routing software has more features - and therefore more opportunities for cost savings - than ever before. If you're still building routes by hand, or relying on general-purpose mapping apps like Google Maps, you could be missing a lot of opportunities to cut costs throughout your transportation department.
A small investment into better software could pay for itself in just a few months, and then continue providing cost benefits for years to come.
Four Ways Better Routing Software Provides Hard Savings
1 - Labor Reduction
The process of building maps by hand, even with basic software assistance, can take hours, if not days. That's a lot of wasted time and effort, when mapping software designed for schools could chew through millions of potential routes in a matter of seconds. Estimates are this can cut 80% off the overall labor costs of building and maintaining your routes. That could add up to several man-hours saved per week.
2 - Fuel Savings
One of the best features of dedicated route-generation software is that it can optimize for fuel use, rather than speed/distance, even when there are thousands of students to deliver. This will always result in substantial savings on every revised route.
Considering that diesel buses only get around 8 MPG in the city, and gas is typically more than $3 per gallon, it's easy to see how even modest fuel savings could quickly add up to real money over a semester. The more buses you run, the more you'd end up saving.
3 - Lowered Maintenance Costs
Along with fuel savings, having more efficient routes also reduces wear and tear on your school buses. This adds up over time in significant extra maintenance costs. School bus tires, for example, typically cost hundreds of dollars per, while lasting around 20,000 - 30,000 miles. Cutting a thousand miles off your routes over the course of your school year could, in turn, add extra years to the tires' life.
4 - Adaptability and Flexibility
How much time gets spent reworking the route when a student moves? If there's a traffic jam, can your driver quickly re-route? These sorts of situations are easily handled by bus routing software, maintaining high efficiency, while avoiding dangerous situations or missed stops.
It's hard to put an exact dollar amount on these sorts of externalities, but you'll feel it when your actual monthly expenditures are well above projections.
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