That will entail identifying and discussing how to inte-
grate different sets of skills, tools and approaches needed to meet a district’s diverse needs. “Existing services focus on development and man- agement of a network that is wholly internal,” Ammon said. “Future services are going to focus on integration of multiple providers. Routing software, telematics services and other data management activities will need to be rethought to be able to see and evaluate what activities are occurring in the system.” Management systems will be reconsidered as routing
will become more complicated and integrated with con- tract management practices, he added. “The ability to contract for resources and increase
and decrease the resources required, a capability almost completely foreign to public sector systems, will have to
be developed,” Ammon noted. “The integration of ser- vices within a district, similar to what we try to do with special needs, will become more complicated and likely more frustrating.” Working with school assignment and registration staff to assess the impact on transportation demands of the changing school assignments will become profoundly important, Ammon said. “Transportation staff will have to be as much a tech-
nical expert as they are negotiating expert,” Ammon shared. “We will need to have capabilities to develop rap- id models of costs and service impacts. The slower and more lumbering typical rerouting that goes on will have to be replaced with rapid prototyping of routing options and cost impacts. “Coordinating with other districts either directly or
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