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DPS implemented the changes in 2010-2011. Te transporta- tion department accomplished this by evaluating data and creating a model identifying how the department could get students when and where they need to be, based on where students live. Tey optimized routes by relieving pressure by changing bell times. In doing so, the schools and community were satisfied, said
Portee. DPS optimized the efficiency of their department by address- ing growing areas, driver shortages, collapsing many bus routes, and changing bell times using the tiered start-and-end school times. Nine years ago, Joe Dives arrived at Magnolia ISD in Texas as
Garland ISD administrators discuss route optimization plans to ensure students affected by the tornado would be able to get to and from school following winter break.
buses with students going to different schools. DPS benefitted from “an opportunity to think out of the box,” added Portee, who is presenting at this month’s STN EXPO on operational efficiencies and bell times.
director of transportation. He inherited a manual routing procedure that included bus drivers updating notebooks to indicate where left and right hand turns should be. Drivers had few parameters throughout their daily drive. Tey often stopped at each house to pick up students. Tere was little efficiency and payroll figures were high. Dives and Magnolia ISD turned to Tyler Technology’s Versatrans suite in 2008, and route optimization took hold quickly. Routes were cut from 100 to 90, yet Dives said the district was able to maintain the same number of drivers and was able to create lead driver positions. Tese positions are a step between the drivers and the supervisors, acting as liaisons between drivers and parents and administration when student behavior aboard the bus becomes an issue. Tese senior members also serve as substitute drivers.
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22 School Transportation News • JULY 2016
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