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School Transportation

If you plan or operate a school transportation service, you're probably facing a host
of challenges, including safety concerns, increasing enrollment, static or shrinking
resources, and antiquated, frequently manual planning processes.

Trapeze understands the challenges of school transportation, and provides school
districts, transportation providers and contractors with affordable, flexible
solutions that promote more efficient use of resources while enabling,
safe, reliable transportation.

For years we have been developing, implementing and supporting affordable,
comprehensive solutions that automate the process of planning and scheduling safe
and efficient school transportation services. Trapeze systems integrate features that
enable you to track real-time vehicle locations, keep parents and staff
informed, manage school bus fleets and easily report on key indicators.

Our highly customizable solutions can include:

Automated Routing and Scheduling. Lower costs, safer transportation and more
accurate information are just a few or the benefits of automating routing, scheduling
and dispatch functions. Integrated, editable maps, drag-and drop stop and address
geocoding and block and stop policies enhance user productivity.

Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL). Improve safety, emergency response time and driver adherence with real-time vehicle tracking tools including Global Positioning System (GPS) technology.

Fleet Management. Promote more efficient vehicle operation while managing inventories, work and purchase orders, maintenance schedules, fuel consumption and reporting requirements.

Redistricting. Provide more accurate forecasts and better transportation with tools that enable you to work with historical, current and projected data and build different boundary scenarios.

School Trip Management. Perform better planning and scheduling with easy-to-use tools that streamline school trip management, estimates, billing, dispatch and reporting.

Special Education Transport. The only software product on the market designed to meet the special education needs of school districts and transport providers. Supports real-time dispatch capabilities as well as optimized demand response routing and powerful student information management.

Transportation Information via Web and IVR. Improve safety and customer service by making information available to parents, staff, drivers, schools, depots and the public through a website or an automated telephone (IVR) service.

For more information about Trapeze solutions for school transportation, contact a Trapeze representative.