Ways School Bus transit can benefit from GPS Tracking

Innovations in telematics and technology are continuously shaping the world for the better. There is nothing you cannot track and monitor from your mobile phone. Using GPS Tracking becomes a standard in private fleets. A school bus is one of the vehicles that benefit from the features of GPS Tracking.

With school transportation, the protection of children is the biggest priority for their schools and parents alike. Especially, children on the way to school via a school bus. These are concerns for parents in terms of safety, like whether the bus is in good operating condition, the bus takes a safe route, or a driver is following the proper route. GPS tracking takes care of these concerns and also adds a ton of operational benefits for school boards and private bus operators. GPS tracking will help improve fleet efficiency and provide safety for children.

Let’s dive into the features of GPS tracking and how schools and parents can benefit from it.

 

How does it work?

The school bus GPS tracking system allows the school and parents to gain visibility, safety and manage the GPS location of the school buses along with arrival and departure times at every stop along the route, including route optimization, route history, and schedule.  Think of a parent who knows the Buses ETA to a stop and doesn’t have to wait in the cold with their child during inclement weather.

By connecting the GPS tracking system with fleet management software, the schools can monitor, track and manage all school buses to operate on time and safely. Parents, using a GPS Tracking app on their smartphone, can monitor and track the whereabouts of their children, the time and location they are picked up and dropped off, and which school bus they took.

 

Features of GPS tracking for school buses

Combination with fleet management software gives you full operational support;

  • Stops and ETA
  • Route adherence
  • Schedule management
  • Buses are visible to parents and school boards alike
  • Auto assignment of a bus to a route
  • Late, Early arrival notifications to parents and school boards
  • Detailed reporting
  • Real-time tracking on the map with scaling features

 

Benefits of using GPS tracking for school buses

The advancements in GPS tracking and cloud-based technology have made real-time tracking a necessary solution for schools today. A centralized GPS for school buses provides an opportunity for schools to keep an eye on the entire fleet that is in operation and for parents to only see the bus and ETA of their children’s route.

Let’s take a look at some benefits from everyone’s perspective, Schools and Parents.

 

Benefits for schools

Improve routing and scheduling

Instead of planning routes manually, the application helps you generate optimal travel routes more efficiently.

Based on service time commitments, route preferences, what kind of capacity the vehicle has, and traffic, the application provides planned routes with information on the estimated arrival time and mileage of each stop and route. Optimal routes will result in increasing commitment of operational schedule, increased customer & driver satisfaction, and cost savings.

 

Improve Fuel efficiency

Effective transportation management not only saves time by optimizing routes but also saves money.

Optimized routes and eliminated unauthorized trips allow school transportation to cut mileage, fuel, and maintenance expenses. Drivers spend less time on the road, along with optimized and improved routes, which results in reduced fuel consumption and reduced operation time.

Fleet management software also provides you with impactful reporting so that you can see precisely which areas need to be improved to lower costs and increase profits.

 

Monitor bus driver’s performance & behavior and assure the safety of children

Real-time monitoring and data enable a school to measure driver behavior and safety. The fleet management software allows school authorities to track the school bus operation in real-time. It improves planning accuracy, driver discipline, and children’s transportation quality.

 

Benefits for parents

Assuring safety

By letting children have an ID tracker or smartwatch tracker integrated with fleet management, parents can get real-time information about the children’s exact whereabouts.

In addition, parents can see real-time school bus location, where and when students board the bus, and receive real-time alerts if unusual events are happening.

Route history

Parents can check their children’s travel history so that they are not concerned about the safety of the vehicle and their children.

 

Astreon GPS Tracking and fleet management for school buses

Astreon offers GPS solutions tailored to your fleet. With our multiple solutions including scheduled transportation management, delivery monitoring service, maintenance management, driver behavior monitoring, transit agriculture, and much more, you will find the best solution with us.

Our application for school buses comprises the core functionality of satellite tracking software and specialized tools designed for route management. Use the service to create stops, optimize routes, distribute vehicles across routes, manage schedules, and track route performance in real-time. The application features intuitive navigation and a user-friendly interface, a handy timeline and event-based notifications for online tracking, a special ACL system and the proprietary API for third-party software integration and custom development.

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Increase Productivity of your Mobile Workforce

Advanced technology has made it much easier to be a field worker. Mobile devices, mobile apps, SaaS, cloud-based solutions, and software integration have revolutionized how corporations manage their remote workforce to keep up with high demand. It is critical for managers to assist their field employees in performing their job more effectively, to track and complete all tasks on time.

Mobile Workforce Management solutions (MWM) provide visibility to field workers, optimize and control field operations, and mobile staff performance. How can your business benefit from a MWM solution?

What is Mobile Workforce Management (MWM) and Mobile Workforce Management Software(MWMS)?

Mobile Workforce Management (MWM) is the management of a mobile workforce with the help of tools such as apps, software, and processes or networks.

Mobile Workforce Management Software (MWMS) is a software solution integrated with MWM that enables businesses to manage their employees while they are on the go. For mobile workers, it’s a tool that assists them in performing their job more effectively and flexibly throughout their day. For a manager, it’s a visibility solution that helps them keep track of what their field workers are working on. This application gives managers and employees alike access to their work schedules, contact information, and other pertinent information from any location with Internet connectivity.

 

MWM Fact sheet: Why your business needs the power of Mobile Workforce Management

In today’s global workforce, 80 % are deskless workers. According to the survey from EMERGENE, the top deskless workforce industries are: Agriculture, Education, Healthcare, Retail, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Transportation, and Construction, employ 2.7B employees.

This survey also shows the fact that 82% of respondents from those top industries are planning to increase spending on technology for their deskless workforce. Transportation and Manufacturing are the two leading industries. In addition, these industries are willing to invest in new technologies to assist their employees with productivity and keep them happy.

 

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Companies with deskless workers are beginning to see that great technology can be as important to this part of the workforce as it is to the rest of their employees.

 

Benefits of using Mobile Workforce Management

With compact mobile devices, combined with the extensive coverage of today’s wireless networks, it enables you to track and monitor virtually anything; not just where cellular service is available, but anywhere you can see the sky. The end result is improved security, productivity, and a superior customer experience.

When you integrate your MWM app with software, you can access all operational insights to make data-based decisions that help elevate your business strategy and improve productivity.

 

Cost-effective

MWM apps gather operational insights, such as fuel level, idling time, fleet maintenance, mileage, breakdown, driver’s behavior, etc. You can make better decisions by analyzing this data to reduce operational costs. Gain insight on the best time for an oil change, vehicle replacement, fuel costs, and so much more.

 

Enhance staff efficiency & productivity

With the telematics data & reports, you can analyze working processes, optimize and organize

the workers, and improve efficiency. Mobile Workforce Management streamlines scheduling, dispatching, and communicating through centralized tools. That result is reducing downtime, increasing efficiency & productivity.

 

Safety

Safety is always a priority, especially under mobile workforce conditions such as working remotely. Mobile workers often encounter unexpected events, such as inclement weather, accidents, traffic, environmental variables, etc.  MWM will assist mobile workers in maximizing their job performance and dealing with any unpredictable incidents. With MWM, the workers get the opportunity to send pictures, SOS messages, or location info. Their manager can assist them in real-time. You always know your worker’s location, speed, and status.

 

Improve customer satisfaction

Seamless work leads to job completion on time, which improves customer satisfaction. MWM provides a wide range of effective operating procedures for mobile workers to complete their job effectively. It provides optimized routes which will result in faster service times. It also provides advanced reports you can analyze which areas of improvement.

 

 

Astreon Mobile Workforce Management

Astreon Mobile is a fully-featured and effective mobile workforce management service. We capture accurate speed and detailed location throughout the day. Astreon mobile is designed to provide visibility to field workers, optimize and control field operations and mobile staff performance.

 

Astreon Mobile Features

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  • Latest data at hand
    • View the main tracking parameters on the home screen for quick checks. Everything is automatically updated based on the latest message from the device.

 

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  • Data from workers
    • Workers can send pictures, SOS messages, or location info. The back office is notified when personnel needs help or further instructions.

 

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  • Custom statuses
    • Tailor the app to business needs; set up the required statuses and get messages with custom events to know what’s happening in the field.

 

  • QR codes
    • Let workers log in with a QR code. Have them scan QR codes at certain points or status changes, for example, at the end of a route.

 

  • Remote control
    • Request actions such as a camera snapshot or a service stop and change settings of the app remotely to proactively guide the workers.

 

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  • Chat with employees
    • Send and receive various types of messages from the field workers for close and detailed day-to-day communication.

 

 

Turn your smartphone into a tracker and make sure that with the Astreon Mobile Workforce Management app! For more information about the app, check our mobile app page.

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