Because of more concerns about child safety, the app system is being used by more and more districts. ALC Schools said its ALC Driver App meets the
company’s core objectives of ensuring student safe- ty, predictability and reliability, efficiency for school districts, and reporting transparency. The company uses mini-vans that carry one to only a few students at a time, when using a school bus proves to be unfeasible for school districts. The app provides drivers with the latest student trip
information from the routing and optimization team. Student names and addresses, along with trip details, are provided fresh for every trip. Company representatives also said the app provides GPS information about every pickup and drop-off location to drivers. This, the company added, creates a trail of location
breadcrumbs via GPS that are provided in real time to the dispatch center and to school districts. The exact times are recorded, so that drivers arrive at stops, pick up students and drop them off at their destination. All data goes to the ALC Schools live dispatch center and its My Ride Manager (MRM) tool for districts to access.
“If a student named Susie is sick and did not get on the bus, the school district gets a report showing she was not on the bus,” said Gregg Prettyman, executive vice president of ALC Schools. “If a parent or school district calls us, we can tell them if the student did or did not get on [the driver’s vehicle]. We use the app to track where the students are.” As a by-product of their disability, students with spe-
cial needs are usually monitored more closely than their general education peers. For example, a teacher may greet the bus when it arrives at the school. The ALC Driver app is written to track the location
of individual students. “Our app is not an off-the-shelf GPS tracker for vehicles. It is a full-fledged student transportation tracking mechanism,” Prettyman added. “The combination of our driver app plus MRM equals an amazingly detailed profile for each student’s current trips, past trips and future trips. Our app provides pickup and drop-off times for each student, taking into account custom wait times and monitors, plus information re- garding no shows for each individual student.” The ALC App supports the entire student population,
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