Te school district now maintains an


annual budget of $30 million to transport nearly 15,000 students on 370 routes, driven by four yellow bus vendors and five small ve- hicle companies, including taxicabs. Trough this entire combination, Detroit students now ride aboard school buses equipped with the latest technology for cleaner emissions, operational efficiency and safety.


GEARED UP FOR ANYTHING District contracts prompted bus operators


to invest in GPS systems, two-way radios and surveillance cameras, some of the latter with multi-point high definition. Te trans- portation team formed an electronic call center ticketing process to track concerns bus contractors need to address. School clo- sures are communicated first to bus vendors, even before local news stations. Te team already has maneuvered around


academic disruption, ranging from snow days to crime to teacher sickout days. For onboard safety, the district and contractors


Woodware Avenue, the country’s first concrete paved road, is getting a facelift with construction of the new rail transit system to connect different Detroit neighborhoods to the city center, and school buses to new schools.


created a bus safety program and rallies at schools with misconduct on their routes. “We remind students that the school bus is an extension of school and that the dis- trict’s code of conduct applies to them on the bus,” said DPSCD Executive Director of Student Transportation James Minnick about the school safety rallies. “We would


ask the students how the ride to school was that morning, and if there were any prob- lems. After the responses, we would then show a recording of the actually bus ride. At which time, we could point out of how students should act on the bus, and those who were out of order.” Te district said that the combined safe-


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