Going beyond just route management, student tracking apps achieve common goals for both parents and school districts: providing peace of mind, increasing safety and efficiency, and reducing liability.
The company says Zonar MyView saw sales increase 19 times between January and June, while ridership tracking solution Z Pass jumped 168%.
The new solution, called RideIQ, is designed to provide school transportation staff with tools to create and optimize individualized or small-group transportation plans for students.
The survey, commissioned by Zonar and conducted by The Harris Poll, finds that 75% of parents want greater visibility into their child’s journey on the school bus, receiving real-time updates via their mobile phones.
From routing and scheduling to communicating with parents and maintaining the district’s bus fleet, members of Franklin Township Community School Corp.’s transportation department discuss the ways in which they ensure students are transported safely to and from school.
Marietta City Schools, which was recently included in a CDC study on COVID-19 transmission in a school environment, is now using the Bus Guardian platform.
Tyler Onboard, an integration platform as a service, is designed to improve integration so pupil transporters can exchange data efficiently and securely between transportation solution providers.
The company’s Bus Guardian solution receives the 2020 IoT Excellence Award presented by Technology Marketing Corp. and Crossfire Media.
The future of the COVID-19 pandemic is uncertain, but safety technology innovations to help with staggered schedules — such as bus and ridership tracking and apps, as well as tablets — are here to stay.
Iredell-Statesville School District will use CalAmp’s Bus Guardian to safeguard against COVID-19 and the Here Comes the Bus app for fleet tracking and student safety.
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