Inside COVER STORY
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Are Onboard Tablets the New Normal? School bus contractor First Student and Tyler Technologies team up to provide
42,000 buses across North America with tablets that include customized software.
SEPTEMBER 2019 Volume 29 Issue 09
(From left) Ted Thien, VP & GM of Tyler Technologies; Al Chang, First Student bus driver; Michelle Taber, First Student location manager; Dean Suhre, senior vice president of performance improvement at First Student.
30 Technology Disruptions in
School Transportation Jim Harris, keynote speaker at the STN EXPO Reno and best-selling author, discusses the new technology that is available today and promised tomorrow. These new developments will provide increased safety and efficiency for school bus services.
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Getting Safer With Collision
Mitigation The era of school buses being able to avoid crashes has arrived. But so far, student transporters are slow to adopt the technology. That should soon change.
52 Technology
Super Users School districts nationwide are dabbling in new technology, with GPS at the forefront of purchase decisions. Several “super users” share their stories and discuss how new technology is transforming their fleet.
4 School Transportation News • SEPTEMBER 2019
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