For schools across the country, a chronic shortage of bus drivers is taking a toll on students and families trying to put the pandemic in the rearview mirror. Even a driver calling in sick can have a cascading effect on routing operations, alternate routes, and student arrival times.

TravelTracker’s AI enables rapid, real-time changes to avoid chaos and confusion.

The Cleveland City School District has implemented smart artificial intelligence technology with TravelTracker-Routing to manage the intermittent nature of route planning when districts are short-staffed with a lack of qualified drivers. When a bus is late or a route is cancelled, Training and Safety Coordinator April Miller can immediately:

• Leverage an intuitive sandbox to plan routing alternatives
• Evaluate smart suggestions for route efficiency
• Post one-time or continuous route changes
• Communicate to parents, inform them of a change
• Update bus listings when new students start riding the bus or change pickup locations

April will join TravelTracker’s Cassidy Beam, Kathryn Johnson and Buttons Cheely in a live webinar on March 10 that will examine the impact of the driver shortage on districts, staff and parents. They will explain how the TravelTracker-Routing software makes driver shortages less of a burden on transportation services, and how the software helps ease parents’ minds about their children’s safety during transportation to and from school.

Presented by TransACT

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april miller
Training and Safety Coordinator, Cleveland City School District

Miller started as a bus instructor in 2012 and obtained her Class B commercial driver’s license in June 2013. She started as a training and safety coordinator in 2018. Her daily duties also include dispatching and driving buses. routes opened when needed, which for Cleveland City Schools has been several times this year.

Presenters:

Cheely Buttons
Customer Success Specialist, TransACT

Cheely turned a part-time job as a bus driver into a career in transportation. For TransACT, she helps districts implement its routing and travel software.

Cassidy beam
Account Representative, TransACT

Beam’s job is to help district administrators streamline their operations management processes, listen to customer needs, and make appropriate recommendations.

Catherine Johnson
Customer Success Specialist, TransACT

Working with TransACT for over 2 years, Johnson resolves customer questions to ensure implementation and directly oversees product development requests.