Over the last two years, “not normal” has become the new normal. We have heard stories from so many of our schools about the difficulty of running bus service during COVID, of keeping staff, of making sure everyone stays healthy and worrying about those who have had serious health challenges as a result of the […]
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About a year ago, United Airlines came to us with a request to be able to upload bus schedules to BusWhere, in order to measure on-time performance. With route-aware GPS installed on your fleet, you gain precise logs with arrival and departure times at each stop, and it becomes possible to measure how the published […]
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“Can we use BusWhere to track our activity buses?” This is a question that we’ve gotten enough recently that we decided to consider the best way to add this feature to our service. First of all: What is an activity bus, and how is it different from a route bus? Schools and districts may have […]
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As we wrap up this school year and look to the next, it is a good time to review what we do for the privacy of our users and the security of information that is sent. BusWhere was designed and built from the ground up for the K-12 schools, so student privacy is built in […]
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We have been doing rider tracking for the last year using RFID cards. On the plus side, the system is as simple as it gets: Parents are sent an RFID tag, easily replaced if lost Parents register the tag to their child The child swipes on and off the bus The responsible parent is notified […]
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