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What is the Role of School Bus Transportation Manager

Posted on March 23, 2018 by TSB Super Admin

One cannot deny the role of a school transport manager in the overall education system. His role is synonymous with the words like ‘responsibility,’ ‘accountability’ and ‘ownership.’

Parents look up to the efficiency of a transport manager when they send their children to school. They send them with the complete trust that their child is in the safe hands and no unfortunate incident will take place while he is en route to school or home.

A transport manager must possess the following:

1. A commercial driver license

2. Experience of managing a school transport system for at least 3-4 years

3. Excellent communication and an agile attitude

4. Technology proficiency to lead GPS mapping tracking system

5. Physical fitness and no criminal background

With multiple roles entrusted to a transport manager, he is a crucial person in any school administration.

Since transport system is vital to any school and it speaks volume about the school’s focus on child’s safety, therefore a good school never compromises with the role of a transport manager.

The various roles a transport manager is expected to play:

1. Transport Management

While other roles are equally important, the primary role of a transport manager is transport management of a school.

It includes managing the entire fleet of buses, deciding their route, dispatch and schedule, driver and other transport department staff management, optimum fuel consumption management, overall operations management of transport department.

It further includes route planning, developing a bus timetable and ensuring the maximum safety of children to and from school.

2. Compliance and Norms

A transport manager is assigned the responsibility of adhering to all district and transport compliances, norms and to complete all the legal formalities required to perform bus transport service of a school.

The transport manager also coordinates with District personnel to transport student to special education functions. He is also expected to prepare all reports vital to be submitted to the district office and the RTO.

3. Vehicle Repair and Maintenance

Although a transport manager is a person who is not in the forefront of school management as he is not a part of the academic department, but the importance of his role cannot be denied.

He oversees timely maintenance and repair of all buses to ensure that the safety of the child is taken seriously. He maintains a record of all the services that the buses have undergone.

In case he comes across any discrepancy, he is expected to inform the management of the school to take an immediate action.

He also decides for the purchase of any crucial equipment for the buses and keeps a check on the upkeep of buses to ensure utmost safety of the children travelling daily in the buses.

4. Driver Management

Many drivers, conductors, and attendants report to the transport manager, and although they know their roles and responsibility well, a transport manager is also held accountable for their conduct and misbehavior.

He also plays the role of a recruitment person for drivers and checks whether the appointed person is suitable for the position or not. He checks his previous record, his conduct, and behavior from other schools where the driver has worked earlier.

He also trains the staff on how to communicate professionally with parents and even on general conduct and behavior.

He also ensures timely promotion and compensation revival for transport department staff and manages any unrest in the department that happens in the due course.

Developing training manual and maintaining training records are also few other responsibilities he is entrusted with.

5. Communication

An efficient and responsible transport manager is one who has impeccable communication skills and keeps an active communication between parents and transport department.

A flawless communication plays a vital role and the stronger the communication, the stronger shall be the faith of parents on the school system.

Informing parents about any change in bus route, schedule and even the driver or the attendant is the responsibility of school bus transportation manager and any deviation from his responsibility may adversely affect his job.

6. Crisis Management

The role of a transport manager becomes all the more critical in case of an unfortunate incidence like a breakdown or an accident.

It is his ability to manage the crisis and take immediate action to ensure that there is minimal loss and that every child reaches his home safely.

He should have contact details of all emergency services like repair and nursing homes. He should also keep number of doctors available on call and make sure that the incident does not have any far-reaching effect that impacts the goodwill of the school.

10 Proven Ways to Encourage Your Kids Effectively

Posted on March 20, 2018 by TSB Super Admin

Children at their young age needs to be motivated and encouraged so that they have definite set goals in their lives. Words of encouragement when used in the right way can have a very positive effect on the child’s life.

Be it at school or at home, words of encouragement used in the right way can help in the developmental stage of the child. Kids yearn to be appreciated for what they do.

Though they are scolded for being mischievous and breaking things, they should be appreciated an encouraged when they do good things.

It is quite natural for children to try out new things while they are in the growing stage. Parents as well as teacher should keep an eye out to the things they do and find out things that they do that deserve encouragement.

You never know what words children carry with them throughout their lives. So, it is important to choose your words wisely when it comes to encouraging children.

Words that are not followed by action are useless but words instil in the minds of kids things that will last for a life time.

Listed here are the 10 proven ways that can encourage your kids effectively.

1. Story Filled Life

Making your child’s life full of stories is one way to make their life interesting. Pick up a book and read it out to them. If they are of the age to start reading them, read it along with them.

Let them read it aloud and act out the story. This engraves the words in the story in their minds and helps them to communicate better later in life.

2. Sincere and Honest Praise

You must praise them honestly and sincerely. Insincere praise is not just ineffective but it can sometimes be harmful.

It is futile to think that they can’t differentiate between an honest and dishonest encouragement. When given an insincere praise they tend to think ‘I was not good enough and I know it’.

Such praises can lead to children’s self-criticism and must be avoided at all costs.

3. Specific and Descriptive Comments

Instead of using generic comments use specific and descriptive comments. ‘I appreciate that you had come up with a good solution for this problem’ is better that ‘You are a genius to solve this question’.

Children perceive such descriptive comments as factually correct and sincere that comments that are less general.

4. Praise their Effort not their Ability

Kids can differentiate between praising their effort and their ability. Appreciating the effort that they took to solve a problem is much accepted than their ability in doing so.

Proven Ways to Encourage Your Kids Effectively

Effort can be perceived as a long term goal and kids will try to improve their efforts rather that saying they are capable of doing something because of their ability. Kids need to attribute success to their efforts rather than their ability.

5. Avoid Controlling or Conditional Praise

Positive informational feedback should be preferred to controlling praise that intends to control or manipulate.

The conditional encouragements that you show to your kids will engrave a contingent self worth in children. You must ensure that praise is not used as a controlling tool.

Self-worth is nothing but what they feel they deserve from others. So always remember praise is not to control your children but to promote them.

6. Avoid Comparison

You might have the tendency to compare your child with other children. No, this is not acceptable. Parents and teacher tend to compare children in academics, sports or extracurricular activities with other children.

At times it helps children to become motivated by seeing another kid do it. But if it back fires it will be worse. Your kid might feel insecure that they are not good enough.

Just imagine that you are being compared your colleague who is more successful than you. If you perform well you will be motivated and excited. But in case you fail you will feel more depressed than motivated.

7. Unnecessary Praise

Some parents praise their children unnecessarily. This has a negative impact on children. When children are praised for easy tasks they tend to be laid back and not try things that are hard to do.

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Children who are praised for simple things will only do things that please their parents and refrain from doing tougher tasks. They tend to follow a pattern to do things that gets them appraisal and not experiment with new things.

8. Hands on Experience

Let them do the simple tasks in daily life themselves, be there right beside them but let them do it themselves.

Washing clothes, planting saplings, taking the dog out for a walk, etc are some of the simple tasks you can let them do on your watch. This way it cultivates a sense of everyday work and things related to them.

Your child will understand the need for routine and if he/she is happy to do it, the better.

9. Ample Playtime

All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. Give them enough time to play around. Kids should be and must be having a great time when they are young. This way they also understand the need for a recess while at work.

10. Reward and Motivation

It is important to give reward and motivation when your kid does something that deserves it. If they are given a reward when they do something good, they tend to repeat it and make it a habit.

A good habit when reinforced becomes a pattern and they will continue it their whole life.

Conclusion

It doesn’t matter what age your kids are, teaching them properly what is right and wrong at an early age will help them throughout their lives.

Children look up to their parents to understand how to live in this world. At this age children are curious and creative and have a fast learning curve unlike adults who have a slower learning curve.

Children will carry with them their whole life whatever that is taught at this age. Buying a lot of toys so that they stay put is not the only thing that parents can do for their kids. They must be given ample space for their creativity to be used and flourished.

Parent’s Concerns About School Bus Transportation

Posted on March 14, 2018 by TSB Super Admin

Parents in general are always concerned while their children are outside either for studies, games or any other things.

While at home or at school, the parents have that sense of feeling that their children are safe. But there is a common notion, which is true that happens in between their school & home: yes their school bus journey.

You may be aware of the recent unfortunate events related to school bus safety on road where the innocent children had to bear the brunt of road rage & careless driving.

These things have aggravated the emotional distress of parents sitting at home or office concerned about the safety of their children.

Uses of Technology

Technology has always been a life saver in these kinds of situations not just in terms of prevention but also to let the parents or authorities know that help is needed.

An in detail analysis is needed in terms of identifying the grey areas in bus timetable and live bus arrivals also to suggest and implement solutions enabled by technology for solving those problems.

There are situations wherein the children are dropped off from a school bus in a totally different location than the one he or she should be dropped in.

It’s heartbreaking every time that a parent hears that their child is not in the designated location.

These errors are mostly inadvertent one from the bus drivers or the caretaker who is supposed to be inside the bus throughout the journey.

The staffs assigned to each bus would not be the same one every day. They would probably be on a rotation basis.

A practical solution for this problem would be to enable the caretaker inside the bus with a low cost tablet with an app that has a bus timetable and routes with the list of students to be dropped at stipulated destinations. This could be a fool proof solution.

Most of the school buses do not have a system to tackle emergency medical situations. There are children who always suffer from long time travelling health issues.

An emergency infrastructure has to be deployed inside the bus. If there is an acute medical situation, the bus driver or the caretaker inside should be able to report it immediately to a clinic that is close by.

A GPS module inside the school bus along with a distress button would enable the caretaker to send a signal to the close by clinic wherein they can track the live bus arrivals.

The parents are always in a state of oblivion about where their children are after the school bus journey begins from school to home. Imagine the situation if the journey takes close to or more than an hour. It’s bad.

Location based bus tracker solutions are always the life savers here. Consider a proposition wherein the parent is enabled with a mobile application that gives the exact location of the school bus in which their child is.

With the emergence of smartphones, most of the parents would be having a phone wherein you can install an application. The parents would never hesitate to have an app in their phone if it’s concerned with the well being of their children.

Live bus arrivals can be tracked easily with the GPS system installed in the bus. The parents only need to get to the stop when the bus is close by, no need to rush or no need to wait for such a long time in anticipation.

Bus tracker solutions are very much common in countries in the west. Those adoption rates are slowly picking up in India as well.

Advantages of GPS Tracking

The one major advantage of GPS tracking system is that it can help save children from being abducted.

There are cases of missing children are increasing, leveraging tracking technology to save and keep children safe is beneficial for both school officials and parents.

A decent GPS tracking device can confirm live bus arrivals and check whether a child had been on an assigned bus based on the bus timetable and had they been out of the bus or not.

With the help of the bus tracker, a parent is aware of the fact that a child is inside their assigned bus and heading to the right location provides a safe thinking to parents.

School bus safety concerns are aplenty to handle and it becomes worrisome for the parents. They do have the thought whether their children are in safe hands or not.

It’s always going to be a headache for the school management to ensure the duty to the right people for transportation.

The driver has to be assigned with full charge or responsibility while on duty and it has to be ensured that his instructions are to be followed at all times. It's always advisable not to make noise inside the bus, by that way could distract the driver.

The children have to be educated or made aware to not to loiter inside the moving bus or to keep their arms and head outside the bus while in motion. Misconduct inside the bus will result in damage of the bus or physical abuse to the people inside.

Conclusion

A lot of things are to be concerned about, but a systematic risk mitigation approach could lead to a much better environment in terms of travel and learning.

The people involved here including the bus caretakers, drivers, management, parents and the children are equally involved in the safety and professionalism in taking things forward in a smooth way.

Stephen Hawking – World’s Brilliant Physicists Passed Away

Posted on March 14, 2018 by TSB Super Admin

Stephen Hawking, physicist and author of “A Brief History of Time” who shaped modern cosmology has died at age 76.

His family released his death statement in the early hours of this morning at his home in Cambridge.

Hawking’s children said that:

Stephen Hawking was an extraordinary man and a great scientist whose legacy and work will stay with us forever.

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15 Tips for Organizing School Trips

Posted on March 12, 2018 by TSB Super Admin

School trips have always been fun filled and enjoyable. There would always be memories created which could be cherished in the years to come.

Whenever the plan for a trip is initiated, the excitement begins. But the tricky part here lies always in the execution.

Organizing school trips always requires good planning as well as execution since the onus always rests with the school management and the staffs involved.

Being entrusted with the safety of other people’s children definitely invokes safety concerns. Here are a few tips to be taken into consideration while organizing school trips.

#1 Where You are Heading

The place of school trip is of utmost importance. You should be brainstorming with your peers and identify a place that is safe, with good modes of transport.

Also ensure that if you are visiting places, it should be during the best time of the year also check whether its open during your visit.

#2 Conduct a Meeting

Arrange a meeting with the key staff involved and the parents of the children going. This is a key part in student travel planning.

#3 Prepare a Checklist

The tour planners, here the management/ parent volunteers should be having a checklist about places to visit, hotels, and accommodation. Make necessary steps for the visit like time to depart, schedule, engagement activities.

#4 Medical Help

The students would be having health issues while travelling. Get an understanding of them and know what to do if an emergency occurs in the worst case.

#5 Mode of Transport

Convenience is the key here. It's always better to avail the service of your school bus or at the least a bus from a private vendor that you trust or have a very good professional relationship with. Even better to have one of the school bus drivers maneuvering the bus.

#6 Food plan arrangement

Plan the food schedule and check your itinerary and check with the decent food joints available on your route. Always better no to take a detour for having food or finding restaurants. Do the grunt work to find places with good reviews and can accommodate large groups.

#7 Keep a Tab on the Budget

Ensure you don’t run out of money which would be a really awkward situation. Apply your money management skills. The things you plan to do should not be expensive and that does not mean that it has to be dirt cheap.

Always seek help from the local population and get to know the best rates regarding food, sightseeing, souvenir shopping etc.

#8 Local Acquaintance

This factor is a double edged sword. Mingle with good local populace. This is one critical part of organizing school trips. They can guide you with good locations to see and leverage the best out of your trip.

#9 Supervising the School Trip

Always ensure that the group has to be supervised by efficient staff or volunteering parents which would be grist to the mill. The people accompanying the children could put them in groups and assign themselves to each one.

#10 School Tshirts

It's always advisable to be in a same color shirt if the trip is a single day trip. This is an important part in student travel planning as you can identify the students without any problem.

#11 Accommodation

Choose cleanliness and price friendliness over posh accommodation. With the advent of technology, it's easy to find budget hotels for accommodation. Check with the major hotel booking providers, the option for bulk booking.

#12 Keep Them Engaged

Most of the travel time is boring. Involve the students in activities like singing and involve each and everyone in activities.

#13 Risk Assessment

Have a prior assessment of the things to do during the trip and portend the risks en-route the trip. Have mitigation strategies in your mind.

#14 Overnight Stays

You should be advising students to possibly stay out of trouble in this scenario. Making them aware of the trip rules is mandatory and part of student travel planning. Enforce rules immediately and consistently.

#15 After the Trip

When you come back, enable a closure activity on the trip by getting students to explain why, where, how, and what was done during their outing and share their experiences.

Send gratitude notes from the class and the teacher to the, bus drivers, admin staff, parent volunteers.

School trips are always an integral part of the wonder years the students spent in their school life.

They are always motivating for students, bring a creativeness or reality you cannot evoke with conventional textbook learning, and provide understanding for learning in a relevant real world context.

Conclusion

The aforementioned points would definitely be valuable in a real world context. Planning is always the key here. If it's done properly with the major decision makers involved, then everything would be a breeze.

Hope you have a trip that’s safe, fulfilling and memorable for many years to come.

30 Essential Road Safety Rules in India [Infographic]

Posted on March 9, 2018 by TSB Super Admin

Road safety is of prime importance as it is essential to avoid unnecessary accidents. We’ve already lost a lot of lives just because we haven’t been careful enough. Safety is gainful, accident is painful.

Safety begins with a team work and we all have to keep an eye out to not just our safety but also the safety of others too. Safety rules are your best tools for survival. We all have come across someone who has met with a terrible accident.

So, it is not uncommon. With the right steps we can avoid any harm to ourselves and others.

The best gift we can give our family is ourselves. It is not something new that India’s roads are the most chaotic place to ride a vehicle. It is mandatory to adhere to the rules while you are on the road.

Road safety rules are not to be taken lightly but most people don’t even follow the speed lanes correctly. According to the Road Safety Annual Report, there has been a significant rise in the fatalities just because people are not careful about the rules created just for the safety of them.

How many of you know about the road safety week that is conducted every year on January?

People forget to follow simple rules like zebra crossing is for pedestrians.

The new measures implemented aims to make the roads safer to both drivers and pedestrians. A lot of road accidents in India occur due to over speeding and recklessness.

If you could just be more cautious a life could be saved. There are signs on the road that you fail to notice just because you are driving your vehicle fast.

These road signs are carefully implemented by road safety authorities after checking on the probability of the accidents. Responsible driving is to keep an eye out for road signs and follow them without prejudice. Check out this infographic to know the 30 essential road safety rules in India.

13 Best Tips for Kindergarten Teachers 2018

Posted on March 8, 2018 by TSB Super Admin

It is fun to spend time with toddlers who are active most of the time. But as much as it is fun it is also a tedious task to handle the kids.

Many consider it as a special job that requires special attention.

Yes, it is kids that you are dealing with, what else should you expect?

Kids go in different directions and it is your duty to make sure that they don’t get lost or if you are able to get their attention. Not everyone can handle the kids and get their attention.

Kindergarten is a place where children are introduced to schools and instil in them an interest for learning.

With only a few days for summer vacation to be over this article is to help Kindergarten teachers have a head start so as to make the transition easier for them and thus students too.

Here are a few tips for Kindergarten teacher that comes handy when dealing with toddlers.

1. Read Stories to Them

Children loooooove stories. It is the first stage of reading and readiness. You can keep them interested for hours if you can narrate them a story to keep them busy listening to your stories.

Even the most mischievous kindergartener can’t resist a good story. Children develop a readiness to listen and learn. This is the first step to knowing the world and what is around them.

2. Introduce Them to Music

Music is paramount to a child’s development. Children like to listen to words that rhyme from which they learn new words. Moreover music is important for the mental growth of a child.

Listening to patterns will always stimulate the thought process. It might be the nursery rhymes they listen in the school bus or the one the teacher narrates during kindergarten hours.

3. Encourage Responsibility

Children should be encouraged to do things responsibly. They should be made familiar with simple things like packing up to school or while they are returning from school.

These small tasks will improve the responsibility. They must be taught about how they should keep their classroom clean or wash themselves up after they have their food.

4. Teach Them Everything

Teach your children from scratch. Don’t assume that they know things, they are kids you, have to teach them how to close the door behind them when they use the washroom, they need to taught ‘thank you’ and ‘welcome’.

Teach them little things like how to wash their hands and how to use toilet paper. Once they fall into a routine they will make it a habit to do it throughout.

5. Choose and Store Supplies

You need some supplies to keep your kids engaged. A good example might be a stuffed pet that is washable which is kept in the classroom. Children can take turns to take it home for a weekend.

Make sure your classroom is not cluttered as it will deter you from having an effective learning environment. Keep unused objects out in your storage and clearly label them for use in future.

6. Involve Parents

It is important to involve parents as much as possible. Tell them how the child is performing in his daily activities. A parent’s involvement ensures the complete education of the child.

Communication is not just enough, but you should do it often and make sure you communicate the progress of the child to the parents. In fact you must care for the child as much as the parents do. Talk to them over phone, return their emails are simple things you can do.

7. Plan Your Activities

Plan your activities ahead for the day and ensure that you keep your children occupied throughout the day. If you haven’t got a plan, be ready with activity sticks.

These activity sticks come handy when you don’t have anything planned for your kids. Hand out these sticks to kids and keep them engaged with different activities.

8. Keep Them Moving All Day Long

Plan lessons or activities for not more than 15 minutes. Children tend to lose interest in them easily. So, some kind of movement activities in between can keep them occupied all day long.

Games like sight word slap can improve their vocabulary help them structure sentences.

9. Adventure Spree

In between classes it would be great to take kids out through the school for an adventure. Take them around the school and ask them to locate the teacher’s room, the cafeteria, the nurse station, the bathroom, the library etc.

Children can take a break from sitting in the classroom and take a stroll through the school for a change.

10. Celebrate Childhood

Most important of all let your kids celebrate tier childhood. Let them laugh, play and make messes. Let them plant a garden, bake, and create new things which will help them to be creative. These actions will nurture their creative side.

11. Talk to Them

Children will improve their oral skills by starting conversations with the teacher and with one another. Teacher will make sure of this that they ask them questions regarding what is happening with their lives.

Instead of slipping a disk in the car while driving to school teachers can ask parents to start a conversation with their child.

12. Help the Parents

Parents might be having a tough time working and taking care of their child. Children might be not willing to take up school on the very first day.

Give them an assurance that you will genuinely take care of their kid. Devise plans to get the attention of the child as they say goodbye to their father and mother.

13. Teach Them to Make Friends

Children might be hesitant to make friends with other kids in the classroom. Guide them on this matter and help kids to get to know each other.

The greatest advantage of this is that kids will be pre-occupied with each other that they forget to cry or make havoc. Some kids will do this naturally while other might need help with it.

12 School Transportation Trends to Watch out in 2018

Posted on March 6, 2018 by TSB Super Admin

In the past few years, educational field has greatly been influenced by Information technology. School transportation management is an area where a number of IT companies focus on.

Most of the entrepreneurs consider this as a good opportunity and thus, make innovative products to solve the school transportation issues.

Some key trends in school transportation management that captured the attention are as follows:

1. Route Optimization

Now, it is not difficult for us to think about organizing school bus routes, bus stops and then, allocating students to their respective bus stops.

One can automatically build optimized routes, resolve the most appropriate bus stops and match students to those stops based on their addresses.

2. School Bus Tracking

Now, people are more interested in keeping track of school buses during their movement. Many schools have started implementing the school bus tracking software for effective school transportation management.

The software helps transport managers to effectively manage fleet of buses, tackle emergency situations properly and create weekly reports regarding school transportation management.

3. School Bus Attendance

Due to working hours and tight schedules, parents will have great concern about their child's safety in transportation. In order to put a stop to this worry, schools have implemented software that provides instant notifications to parents whenever their child gets on or off the school bus.

With apps like driver console, drivers are able to know whether any particular child is missing from the bus or not. The app will have details regarding each student and their assigned stops which help the drivers to instantly recognize them. Thus school management can guarantee a secure and risk-free transportation to students.

4. Tracking App for Parents

From morning to evening, parents will be worried about their child and eagerly wait for the school bus to arrive. When there are unfavourable weather conditions, the situation gets worse. School management can tackle such situations by providing an app that enables the parents to track their child's school bus in real time and thus, reach the bus stop in time.

Once a child boards the school bus with tracking, parents are able to see the real-time location along with route which helps them to plan accordingly. They are also able to manage more than one child with a single app.

5. Tracking App for Transport Managers

With the help of the transport manager app, transport managers are able to have exclusive control of the school bus. With this app, even minor possibilities of accidents or mishaps that can happen in the school transportation services can be avoided.

Transport managers are able to communicate with the driver whenever they feel a need for that. Using the app, they are able to schedule school bus trips easily. New pick up points can be built and assigned. Also, it is possible to update bus stop locations if any relocation needed.

6. Tracking App for Bus Attendant

This app includes a complete attendance management system which helps to reduce attendance flaws. Manual way of collecting attendance is usually a tedious task and is prone to errors. Each and every minute detail is considered in the attendant app.

Drivers are able to instantly get notification, along with the contact details and a picture of the child. They get exact direction of the trip and the confirmed trip paves way to trip history.

7. Alternative Fuels

Many trends are coming in many areas of school transportation, one such is in fuel. As we all know gasoline is used in buses which have volatile prices and low efficiency level per gallon. Today worldwide we are draining petroleum resources which are forcing us to go for alternatives. There are many alternatives such as compressed natural gas (CNG), propane, electricity, and much more.

8. Live Camera Feed

With the help of cameras, drivers obtain live camera feed of students inside the school bus. Drivers can view this feed via their own console. This helps them to save time, thereby adding comfort, convenience and safety.

9. Geofencing

Parents as well as school authorities can restrict the movement of school bus to a particular area. They will get instant notification if any school bus enters the restricted area. Parents can also set their own boundary by using the geofencing feature of parent app and receive alerts when the school bus approaches near to their child's pick up point.

10. Manifest Feature

Produce routine school bus passenger details like pick up details, route diagram indicating pick up location, list of students present inside the bus etc. If a student applied leave on a particular day, his pick up details will not appear in that day's stop list in the app. This saves valuable time of the driver as well as the students by not having to stop at unnecessary points. It is a useful feature that is going to be a trendsetter in the future.

11. Alcohol Detection

It is not a pleasant thing to discuss but still we have to. There are certain cases when drivers are under the influence of alcohol while driving which they hide it. But it is not possible now as there is a sensor which detects alcohol in driver. This sensor can be installed into steering wheel which helps it to stop any unsafe driving as it locks down the bus before it reaches the road.

12. Auto Routing

School bus routing is quite a difficult job for transport managers as well as fleet managers as they have to optimize bus routes, check the seating capacity and much more. But now routing is not a problematic task as school transport software has auto routing feature which does the routing automatically with the use of its smart routing algorithm.

These are trends that have revolutionized the school transportation management. They not only help the new drivers to have better control of the school bus, but also give parents peace of mind. With the advent of various technologies, costs for fuel can also be significantly reduced with the facility of route optimization.