Today, that is possible. By making the drivers’s job easier to perform, you can increase driver retention and improve on-time performance. Implementing a navigation system like Busology’s reduces the complexity of mapping, so drivers can focus on completing their own planned routes safely without unnecessary distraction.
Drivers will feel good about their performance and feel less stress. You can keep your buses and drivers on the road.
Alfred checks his tablet. His route has recently changed, but Alfred easily sees it right on the screen, and where he needs to focus his attention. He has worked for the school transportation agency for nearly 20 years, driving a school bus. Over the years he has come to know what it takes behind the scenes for the whole operation to work. It’s not good enough for buses to simply get from A to B. He realizes there is a lot of planning that goes on in order to come up with the safest and most efficient routes.
One of the reasons Alfred has worked at the agency for so long is because he appreciates their innovative mindset; they are always trying to improve their services to the community.
Case in point – just recently they implemented Busology Tech’s School Bus Navigation solution.
When Alfred thinks about the young drivers who come on board with the agency and all that they have to think about in order to run an efficient and safe bus, he breathes a sigh of relief that with Busology, only the maps with the relevant routes plugged in will appear on their tablets. It can be quite a distraction to have more broad, city maps or even maps with other routes included when drivers should be focused on student safety and one specific route that has been well thought out and planned for.
Alfred slows and stops the bus in front of the elementary school. He is on time and waves to each child as they safely step off the bus and start their day.
Ruth closes the door to her office and sits down behind her desk with pen in hand, and calculator at the ready to look at her agency’s school transportation numbers for the quarter. Then, smiling, she puts down her pen and slips her calculator back into the drawer. With the new Busology solution, she would not need to fiddle and figure.
Ruth begins to scroll through through easy-to-use dashboards that show her a series of key performance indicators over time that she is interested in. In particular she zeroes in on the time frame between the time the agency implemented the School Bus Navigation solution from Busology Tech and now. A couple of numbers stand out:
Ruth knows that if there is one word that describes why these numbers have improved, it is ‘simplicity.’ Clear, simple maps for operators leading to less confusion, happier drivers, and less absenteeism, resulting in better on-time performance.
The driver navigation system sounds simple, Ruth muses, but in fact it has made a huge impact on her organization. And made her job a whole lot easier.
It was once a scramble. Getting three young children out the door for school wasn’t easy. When the school bus arrived late, it only added to Susan’s stress. She had obligations at work and needed to be on time. Susan once wondered how often the school bus company or drivers thought about the parent experience when running their service.
Today, though, it is a different story. It is rare that the school bus is late over the past six months and Susan is able to head to work relaxed and ready to face her day. She also did not have to wait with her kids in the freezing cold, unsure when the bus would arrive.
As her kids board the bus Susan waves to Carl, the bus driver, who seems more relaxed these days. Maybe something has changed in his job, Susan wonders.
In fact, something HAD changed in Carl’s job. The school bus transportation agency had implemented Busology’s simple yet superior navigation system on all of its school buses. The easy-to-use mapping solution has led to more on-time buses and increased driver satisfaction; it has impacted a number of areas of the business, including the parent experience.
It sure can! Drivers no longer have to just live with the planned route if it no longer is the most efficient one. You can put adjustments into the system and these will be reflected on the driver’s tablet, where the turn-by-turn navigation reflects the updates.
It is one of the major benefits of the solution. Safety comes first and that extends to driver stress levels. With the Driver Navigation solution, you only see the routes you are concerned with and clear updates are transmitted to you in real time.
The Busology solution can help with this in a variety of ways.
1. Reducing driver stress with simple, easy to follow turn-by-turn navigation;
2. Real-time updates on traffic and detours that can be made;
3. Teamwork! With Busology drivers are not the only ones who know there will be a delay. Various team members at the agency and schools know where drivers are and what the challenges are, and are communicating on behalf of drivers with parents and others about delays, etc.
Learn how a single vendor approach results in smooth integration with “plug and play” ease in the West Fargo School District.
Learn how the Parent App impacts security, reliability, and efficiency at this school district.
Learn how the implementation of Busology Tech’s GPS tracking solution allowed this school district to gain significant efficiencies and better communicate with parents.
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