Regardless of how students arrive at school and home again, experts express the importance of safety and efficiency through various mobility models


Written by Carol Brzozowski 34 School Transportation News • APRIL 2026


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chool transportation mobility models are being used to improve efficiency, stretch limited resources and maintain safety. They in- clude partnering for efficient collaboration between school districts, transit agencies, municipalities and regional co-ops as well as Safe


Routes to School programs. Mobility models enhance cost savings and smarter resource allocation in the face of driver shortages, rising costs and constrained budgets. Tim Ammon, owner of Ammon Consulting Group, noted his STN EXPO


East presentation last month addressed “how the business of education has gotten increasingly complicated in the past five years and that feels like nothing compared to what is going to happen in the next five years.” Transportation operations must adapt to an environment with more


choice, fewer people, fewer resources, and continued uncertainty. “Transportation directors are going to have to knit together a diver-


sified group of providers that will come from across the transportation universe,” Ammon said.


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