Transportation
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Schools are located throughout a district. Students’ homes are scattered within a district’s boundaries. Getting students to and from these places of learning is a geographic problem. Buses, stops, shelters, routes, runs, walk zones, and related factors are the components of school transportation planning. Designing, locating, deploying, displaying, and making these transportation components efficient and cost-effective is where GIS comes into the picture.
Because the display and analysis power of GIS is underpinned by real-world GIS data (streets, school locations, student residences, bus stops, and other community geographic features and attributes), school transportation planning and logistics are also real world and timely. Transportation functions that GIS can solve include
- Developing geographically-accurate walk zones.
- Selecting bus stop and shelter locations.
- Creating optimized bus routes, including the use of road attributes.
- Tracking vehicles and monitoring fleet and driver performance.
- Managing field trips and special needs routing.
- Producing map and text driver instructions and reports.
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