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“Alternative transportation within our industry is nothing new, and it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. It has become a vital service, whether it be for one route within a district or 100,” said Megan Carey, vice president of business development at ALC, which has partnered with U.S. school districts for more than a decade. ALC finds existing companies in the community that
already employ highly qualified, compassionate drivers who operate their own minivans, wheelchair-accessible vans and sedans. The team matches students with the right vehicles, and aims for consistency, by retaining the same trained and vetted driver every day. Using real-time GPS, the company tracks the rides.
Its proprietary software also finds inefficiencies within routes and streamlines them, so that students are in the vehicle as little time as possible. By coordinating trans- portation efforts with multiple districts, the company can offer competitive rates. ALC arrived in Denver six years ago, and now helps
on 12 routes for the Littleton Schools Transportation department. The contractor implemented a process of
communicating with families about its services, so that they were not surprised or scared when a different kind of vehicle showed up, instead of a yellow school bus. “They build trust through transparency. It’s enormous-
ly helpful when we don’t have a chance to tell families in a tight turn-around of school transportation,” said Michael Hush, director of transportation for Littleton Public Schools. Needing even more help, the Littleton Schools trans-
portation department partnered with HopSkipDrive, a ridesharing company that serves more than 1,600 schools in California and Colorado with special needs transportation. Additionally, HopSkipDrive helps families and schools with carpools, athletic trips and field trips. The company thoroughly vets “CareDrivers” through a
15-point certification process that includes background checks and fingerprinting. The CareDriver’s vehicle also goes through a 19-point inspection. Once approved, they become part of the network that the app taps into when matching drivers with riders. For districts, HopSkipDrive begins with a discovery
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