STUDENT TRANSPORTATION
Student transportation services are an expensive, albeit necessary part of every district's commitment to education.
An independent professional assessment will typically result in operational cost savings
that do not affect the quality of service you currently offer.
An independent professional assessment will typically result in operational cost savings
that do not affect the quality of service you currently offer.
BACKGROUND: $23,000,000,000 (with a "B") is spent annually by public school districts for school bus operations.
Districts spend 4% to 7% of their budgets annually to transport students to and from schools. For some, that's $350,000 per year, yet for other districts, it's as much as $30,000,000 a year just for student transportation.
Whether you are a 80,000 student school district or a 800 student school district with bus service, we can typically identify changes that will create significant financial savings to your maintenance and operations budget while maintaining high customer satisfaction ratings from your families and schools.
Objective analyses by independent and professional transportation consultants can result in significant savings to a district's budget, putting dollars back into classrooms year after year. However, financial efficiency is but one aspect of a good student transportation consulting project. Our financial operational performance analysis includes:
Districts spend 4% to 7% of their budgets annually to transport students to and from schools. For some, that's $350,000 per year, yet for other districts, it's as much as $30,000,000 a year just for student transportation.
Whether you are a 80,000 student school district or a 800 student school district with bus service, we can typically identify changes that will create significant financial savings to your maintenance and operations budget while maintaining high customer satisfaction ratings from your families and schools.
Objective analyses by independent and professional transportation consultants can result in significant savings to a district's budget, putting dollars back into classrooms year after year. However, financial efficiency is but one aspect of a good student transportation consulting project. Our financial operational performance analysis includes:
- Boundary planning and traffic analysis to accommodate demographic enrollment shifts, including growth and decline, grade changes, new builds or capital improvements to existing schools
- Reduced student ride times
- Bell time optimization to include shifts to later start times, for middle and high schools or improvements to operational efficiency or academic success. Multiple recommendations can be developed for adoption consideration
- Bus routes optimization
- Providing accurate demographic data looking backwards and forwards for facility and programs planning purposes
- Development of operational profiles using Key Performance Indicators to provide comparative perspective
- Fleet maintenance practices review and analysis - cost benefits, etc.
- Technology integration measures that will enhance efficiency, accountability and safety
- Transportation program safety review to reduce your accidents, your insurance premiums and your risk exposure
- Special education program analysis to ensure optimized services, efficient staffing levels and IDEA compliance
- McKinney-Veto transportation performance reviews
- In-depth analysis to compare outsourcing options of some or all services, including regular ed busing, special ed transportation, homeless student transportation and fleet maintenance operations
OUR ENGAGEMENTS: We specialize in financial and performance analysis of student transportation services to help uncover opportunities for cost savings that will put money back in the classrooms and still allow you to maintain the high level of quality transportation services that your families have come to expect. Through our engagement, you will have an objective report on the quality, the efficiency and the safety of your transportation operations. We have developed a unique model for use of typical and district-specific key performance indicators (KPI). Our engagement can be as broad or as narrow in scope as you wish. We will discuss with you what your objectives are and tailor a proposal that fits your exacting needs.
OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU: We form strategic partnerships with superintendents and business managers; take a highly analytical approach to efficiency, performance and safety; and focus on high quality service delivery. Our
Core Values of Service, Honesty, Integrity and Precision are the mainstays of our relationship with you.
OUR DELIVERABLES: All preliminary and final reports include non-disclosure affidavits to ensure 100% confidentiality for our clients. Reports outline strengths and weakness of each area of assessment, with recommendations for improvement or expansion if necessary. They are presented in clear and easy to interpret plain language, but also include extensive details of our engagement. All the data and detail we collect during our site visits will be contained in your reports. The reports will include exhibits such as spreadsheets, charts, photographs and other visual descriptions. We will conduct an onsite exit briefing upon conclusion of our engagement, and provide both hard copies and electronic copies of our reports. Each recommendation will indicate whether it is essential, strongly recommended, recommended or gold standard. When we leave, you will know with absolute certainty where you stand, what if anything needs to be done, and how and who can help you do it. We will perform followup with your staff, or if you prefer, we can do the work for you.
OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU: We form strategic partnerships with superintendents and business managers; take a highly analytical approach to efficiency, performance and safety; and focus on high quality service delivery. Our
Core Values of Service, Honesty, Integrity and Precision are the mainstays of our relationship with you.
OUR DELIVERABLES: All preliminary and final reports include non-disclosure affidavits to ensure 100% confidentiality for our clients. Reports outline strengths and weakness of each area of assessment, with recommendations for improvement or expansion if necessary. They are presented in clear and easy to interpret plain language, but also include extensive details of our engagement. All the data and detail we collect during our site visits will be contained in your reports. The reports will include exhibits such as spreadsheets, charts, photographs and other visual descriptions. We will conduct an onsite exit briefing upon conclusion of our engagement, and provide both hard copies and electronic copies of our reports. Each recommendation will indicate whether it is essential, strongly recommended, recommended or gold standard. When we leave, you will know with absolute certainty where you stand, what if anything needs to be done, and how and who can help you do it. We will perform followup with your staff, or if you prefer, we can do the work for you.