Safety Drill Manager and Bus Manager help coordinate evacuation planning and scheduling, while also connecting parents and administrators with information about the location of students and the buses carrying them.
Grote, based in Madison, is among several companies slated for awards from the Indiana Manufacturers Association.
The bus, carrying Farmingdale High School students to a marching band camp in Pennsylvania, may have suffered a faulty front tire before it rolled over into a 50-foot ravine off the side of Interstate 84. Two adult passengers died in the accident.
The annual contest is sponsored by the National Association for Pupil Transportation, National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services, National School Transportation Association, and school bus manufacturers Blue Bird, IC Bus, and Thomas Built Buses.
School Bus Fleet surveyed school transportation professionals from Colorado to New York to get a sense of what the most serious concerns are when it comes to school bus safety.