nHit-or-miss route mapping in 107 school districts
nHuge inefficiencies
nInability to contain costs efficiently
Without GIS:
- For
decades, school bus routes were generated using paper maps, pushpins, plastic
transparencies, and colored pens – a virtual busload of information.Addresses for every student had to be
located on a paper map and marked by hand.
- All
of our routers had to look at a map and try to figure out the best routes;
using their best judgment, routers grouped the closest students, marked
pickup points, and created the bus routes.
