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5 practical ways to track buses and reduce student waiting time


April 21, 2015 Team Creatrix
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Schools are mostly focused on academic performance and often neglect the other areas of infrastructure where they can save a lot of money and reduce workload. Still, many educational institutions won’t have the information on where your buses are and what are the updates on the fleet to refine route planning.

The complex vehicle management processes were done manually and new routes were not updated. Tracking the vehicles and students, and optimizing the bus routes will help schools to save a lot of fuel every year and also keep the students safe. In this new digital world everyone prefers automated tools and why should it be any different for schools? The school bus routing software not only manages the transport system but also takes care of every possible problem faced by the students in educational institutes.

The transportation management system provides administrators with all the information required to track vehicles and routes. Here are the five practical ways for school administrators to track buses and reduce student waiting time:

1. GPS tracking

The advanced routing system is integrated with maps and a GPS navigation system to provide real-time updates of the current location of vehicles, drivers, and students.

2. Route optimization

Create an efficient driver schedule for all the pickups which will save a lot of fuel and can even optimize fuel usage, avoid empty mileage, and reduce the workload of drivers. Route optimization enables schools to handle emergency situations efficiently with faster response time.

3. Real-time notifications

This cloud and mobile-enabled bus tracking system will send push notifications to parents before their arrival on the pickup spot and before reaching the drop-off point, to keep parents and students informed. This will help schools not only reduce operating costs but also help parents stop worrying about their kids reaching the school safe.

4. Student information system

Create profiles of students and drivers including biographic and demographic information, contact details and parent/guardian information, which can be easily accessed across web and mobile devices. This automated software enables the school to add a new student to a bus with ease, and the pickup and dropoff point will be automatically updated on the driver’s map. School can even monitor the fuel efficiency and time of each bus and improve if they find any lags.

5. Reporting & Insights

The bus management system provides you the ability to generate dynamic reports with various set of attributes where the school management can analyze problems dynamically and optimize the allocation of resources.

The automated school bus routing system on the Creatrix Campus helps in solving the problem caused in the transportation system and, this highly flexible software tracks the vehicles, drivers and students until they reach their destination. Creatrix Campus transport management system provides drivers with an efficient route for all the pickups. It eliminates waiting time and students will not miss their bus again.