A HopSkipDrive employee reviews a student route using the company’s RideIQ transportation hub.
transports 42,000 students in all. “With a district our size, pen and paper or using
spreadsheets to document routes is not sufficient, based on the number of folks that might need to access student or route information,” he said. “In addition to route information, we use this as our first and primary lookup for student information, as it downloads information daily from our [student information system].” At the same time, most of the actual routing is done
manually, as Jorgenson reported that staff members have found they can often do that with fewer resourc- es than the program indicates. Transportation staff also employ an in-house developed application to receive requests for special transportation that uploads data to Tyler’s Student Transportation. This includes address, emergency contact, accommodations and be- havior information for each student. Jorgenson added that he likes the ability of software
to retain all student and route information in a central- ized location for lookup. He also cited the ability to have
students located on the map automatically to speed up the routing process. At the other end of the size spectrum, Mount Horeb
Area School District in Wisconsin uses Student Trans- portation in serving the district’s 2,500 students. “You need software that allows you to be efficient,” said
Brian Toth, transportation coordinator. “This is a world that’s always changing, and you need to make adjust- ments from who you are transporting to the times you are taking them.” He noted that the ability to layer and view multiple routes at one time is of primary importance, along with
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