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School Transportation Costs Drive Districts Toward Change

With school transportation costs rising, many public schools are beginning to make drastic changes to their transportation polices. The more the schools must depend on themselves and less on government funding, the burden of school transportation costs fal..

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School Transportation Costs, Policies and Practices: A Review of ...

School Transportation Costs, Policies and Practices: A review of … School transportation routes and therefore costs will change at the start of the 2012 - 2013 school year. If your child is enrolled at a primary school, you should read this very important ..

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Strategies for Saving School Bus Energy...

School bus transportation is one of the main forms of mass transit in the United States. This transportation program provides great savings in fuel costs as large numbers of students ride in one school bus as opposed to small numbers of students riding in ..

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Pros and Cons of GPS Vehicle Tracking...

GPS vehicle tracking has become a popular way for employers to monitor employees who's job depends on driving and for the parents of teenage drivers to monitor where the teens are driving. There are a few pros and cons to using vehicle tracking through a G..

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SIF Agent 2.0r1

For those that don't know, SIF is an acronym for Schools Interoperability Framework. SIF is a specifications that defines how software applications for K-12 school systems exchange data.

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School Bus Drivers Deserve Our Respect

Every day you trust them with the lives of your children. There are approximately 480,000 buses transporting students. This means there are at least 480,000 bus drivers. In reality, there is more than that because each school district needs substitute bus ..

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School Bus Safety: Know Your Drivers

Every day we trust school bus drivers all across the country to safely transport our children to and from school and any programs in between. Most of us probably never give it a second thought. I just read an article that explains how a 17 year old passeng..

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School Bus Safety: Don’t Turn That Bus Around

School buses are big. Really big! Whenever a school bus needs to turn around, especially when backing up, the potential for an accident is a lot higher. There are quite a few blind spots at the back of the bus that could prevent the driver from seeing a pa..

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School Bus Safety: Special Medical Condition Reports

Nobody likes to think about accidents or medical emergencies, especially when you’re also thinking about school buses and students. Accidents do happen. Medical emergencies do happen. It’s important that we prepare for them. One important thing you can do ..

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School Bus Safety: Tracking Student Incidents

School Bus Safety is an often neglected topic for many people, which is unfortunate because millions of students are transported daily on school buses. We have a civic responsibility to promote school bus safety whenever, and wherever, we can.

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Is Your School Bus Stop Safe?

In a previous post, I talked about registered sex offenders that may live near your child’s bus stop "Are There Sex Offenders Near My Child's School Bus Stop". This is important to know, but it doesn’t mention other threats that may exist for your children..

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BusBoss: School Bus Routing Software Backups

It’s happened again. A customer called recently saying that their server crashed and now they need help getting BusBoss back up and running. If your Transportation Management Software does not have backup and restore functionality, please take a close look..

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Bus Software - Display Dead Ends to Find Map Problems

School bus route optimization requires accurate map data. Different map sources are available but there are several aspects of map data that determines its quality.

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School Bus Route Optimization

Fleet Optimization was never one of my favorite subjects when it came to BusBoss. However, as the years have gone by this functionality has greatly improved. I would recommend this to anyone who asks me where to start when creating new routes.

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Top 10 Reasons for Using School Bus Routing Software

Are you transporting students on buses? What about vans? If you are, then you should be using school bus routing software. It does not matter if you have 1 bus or 1,000 buses, you should be using bus routing software to manage your bus fleet.

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Are There Sex Offenders Near My Child’s School Bus Stop?

Many states have laws that prevent registered sex offenders from living too close to schools and parks, but I am not aware of any that restricts their residence based on bus stop location. Given that suburban and rural America is splattered with bus stops,..

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School Bus Route Planning

When you are planning your bus routes, what are you thinking about? I suspect that most transportation directors are thinking about accommodating all of their students and “hoping” that they won’t need to add additional buses.

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School Bus Passes and Fees

The use of school bus passes is becoming more prevalent over time. Bus passes are primarily used for students to get on their assigned school bus. They are usually required when students are expected to pay for their school bus transportation. Printing bus..

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Court Ordered Split Custody School Bus Routing

As a transportation director, you have many responsibilities. Accommodating court ordered split custody school bus routing is just another one of them. While you may find this to be a nuisance, there is school transportation management software available t..

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Respect Your Transportation Director

If a transportation director is doing their job properly, they are often times forgotten about and left to the side lines. These people are responsible for a large percentage of the school district’s budget, and are often the focus of budget cuts.

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7 Questions to ask about School Transportation Management Software

After deciding that you need School Transportation Management Software, your next task is to decide which one to purchase. This is an important decision because you do not want to waste your valuable time and money.

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