The companies — SafeStop Inc., Synovia Solutions, Treker, and Zonar — provide apps that help parents find information about their children's bus routes, stops, and arrival times.
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At Huntsville Independent School District, students can use their Chromebooks to access their textbooks and homework on the bus.
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Patrick Gallagher, SafeStop’s director of sales, shares how the company’s app has increased communication between school districts and parents. Gallagher also foresees more data access as a potential solution to bus driver shortage.
Read More →The 2016 Don Carnahan Memorial Grant Program will provide up to $50,000 to contractors for school bus technology hardware.
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Three schools in Clover Park School District will use Zonar’s Z Pass system through June 14. Based on the results, district officials will consider a districtwide student identification system.
Read More →Chesterfield County Public Schools’ five area offices for transportation plan to tweet as soon as possible if a bus is running late by 15 minutes or more.
Read More →As statistics show, school buses are the safest way for children to get to school. But for parents, knowing that their kids are on the right bus is just as important.
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Several voluntary safety program best practices would be worthy of inclusion in a beyond compliance program. NSTA encourages FMCSA to utilize the performance metrics of preventable accidents, non-preventable accidents and Department of Transportation reportable crashes when measuring all programs.
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Indianapolis Public Schools is using Here Comes the Bus, which lets parents track their child’s bus, on a few buses before rolling it out district-wide. A few other districts in the state piloted the app last year.
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Viewfinder is designed to help school transportation operators easily monitor day-to-day operations, providing access to updates on trips, field trips, vehicles, students and staff from any device, company officials said.
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