make the transition. That was the case at Roosevelt Ele- mentary School District #66 in Phoenix, Arizona, when Director of Transportation Kerry Duskin arrived there over five years ago. Duskin is a proponent of the cloud and of technology in general, and he had previous experience using rout- ing software in Louisiana. He said he was taken aback at the lack of technology at Roosevelt Elementary. Luckily for him, he recounted, he arrived when the
previous superintendent championed making tech- nological advances. Last year, Duskin oversaw the completion of a cloud transition. He and his staff now connect to off-premises data hosted by Transfinder for routing and Synovia for student ridership. “I can still work from home versus I’m [at the office] and our systems are down,” he said. In terms of efficiency of routing, he gave credit to the
upgrade of Transfinder’s RouteFinder Plus that uses arti- ficial intelligence optimization. Next, Duskin said he hopes to move the district’s school bus video to the cloud. Currently, staff is still pulling video cartridges from DVRs and backing up to flash drives. In Las Vegas, Nevada, Clark County School District
is creating processes for how to access and use Safety Vision video in real time and with files residing in the
cloud. “Our goal is to randomly monitor routes to see how things are going,” said Executive Director of Trans- portation Jennifer Vobis. Administrators at the five transportation facilities will get
real-time updates. “Before, because we are so spread out if there was an allegation of a fight, an incident, investigators would have to go physically to the bus to download the video,” said Vobis, the 2022 STN Transportation Director of the Year. “Now, we’ll be able to do it at our desks.” Because of similar hybrid environments, where Civi-
tella said some data is hosted off premises with the rest on internal servers, communication is key. Arizona’s Duskin noted that very challenge still exists at his dis- trict, especially when multiple vendors are involved. Civitella added that he advises customers that are
upgrading technology to ask their existing or potential vendors if they offer an off-premises solution. “You’ve got to be thinking about that because as soon as you have one product on the cloud or hosted … you want that to become your trend.” he said, advocating a road map that includes transportation in overall school district technol- ogy upgrades. “You have 10 different software products. Student transportation is one of those pieces. You should come up with a roadmap when you want to take on this challenge of slowly moving everything off-prem.” ●
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