Finally, a transportation routing and scheduling system that makes sense for smaller school districts! ePTS allows smaller districts to enjoy the benefits of an edulog system without the large financial investment needed to purchase hardware or hire additional staff.
edulog works as a "virtual employee" for your district on a day-to-day basis to help you get the results you need. edulog handles all technical responsibilities, including daily maintenance, map updates, customizing of reports, and much more.
With ePTS, the software is hosted on edulog's servers. This means that your IT personnel do not need to maintain the hardware or software. This represents significant savings in personnel costs. Because the software is hosted at edulog, there is no need for the schools to purchase additional computer hardware to host the software. Any computer with access to the Internet will work. If you can see a Web page clearly, you will also be able to see and use the ePTS system. All you need to access the software is a computer with an Internet connection. By maintaining the software on edulog's servers, we can ensure that the system is always running and available.
With the proposed ePTS system, schools can:
- Easily see everything at a glance with the photo-like raster map
- Keep students' transportation information organized in the student database
- Graphically see how bus runs are organized to increase efficiency
- Visually locate active and inactive stops to easily add new students
- Easily identify new students on the map and plan routes accordingly
- Quickly produce driver directions and passenger lists
- View bus capacity and stop locations in seconds
- Print bus passes
- Detailed Reporting
- Receive unlimited support for system operations from edulog over the telephone or through the Internet
ePTS also allows you to share access to the system with any authorized school personnel at no extra cost. This opens up new and exciting opportunities for sharing information. For example, a school secretary and the transportation director can both access the software. The system allows the secretary and the transportation director to work together because the student and transportation data can be easily shared. (This is especially helpful when the bus garage is located far away from the main office). Some clients choose to have the secretary in charge of certain parts of the transportation operation for example she may print lists of students' pick-up and drop-off locations to be able to answer parent's questions quickly and help with keeping the student transportation database up to date. With ePTS, she can log on to the system from any computer with an Internet connection.
Many clients do not have enough staff the answer the phone in the transportation office at all times. For example, this could happen if the transportation director has to drive a bus route at the last minute. With ePTS, other appropriate personnel can access a student's transportation information and answer questions quickly. This way parents can get their questions answered at any time. This approach can also be very helpful during peak season in the transportation office. edulog will help you with giving staff the appropriate access to the system.
- 24/7 access via any Internet connection (the office, home, the bus garage, administration building, etc.)
- No server storage/maintenance at the schools
- Ongoing maintained security
- Data back-ups performed by edulog
- Protection from power failure and natural disasters
- A user-friendly work space - no technical experience needed
- Peace-of-mind: no need to worry about "how it all works," upgrading software versions, system crashes, database maintenance, and security issues.
The business manager calls requesting information to present at the School Board meeting tomorrow. What are needed are lists by school, of the students who are transported and how far away from school they live. ePTS puts that report at your fingertips! Use the extensive reporting capabilities of ePTS to quickly generate the information.
The Smith family moves into your area. Althea is a fourth grader, Andrew is in grade 6, and Dennis is a junior in high school. They live out in the country and will need transportation. How do you tell the bus drivers about the new stop locations? Use ePTS to enter the student information for each student, create a stop for each of the students, and then assign those stops to the closest run.
As soon as your ePTS system is up and running you will be able to see what your buses are doing using the powerful graphic map. You realize that you have buses that backtrack, two runs that cross, and three buses that are going into the same neighborhood! ePTS allows you to identify these conditions and make changes, saving money and improving efficiency for your district.
It is brought to your attention that there are a lot of new elementary school children in a certain neighborhood, and you wonder if the existing bus servicing this area has sufficient space. Using ePTS you simply click the "Student Tally" function for the area in question. If the student information is in the database, in seconds a detailed report will display critical information such as the students' grades and home addresses as well as the number of students at each grade level. Another quick mouse-click will tell you how many seats are left on the bus(es) in the area. The result? In a just a few minutes you know if additional buses are necessary to provide service the new students and you can plan ahead to avoid overloads at school start.
It is a week before school starts and the phones are ringing off the hook. To find out details about the transportation possibilities at a student's home address all you have to do in ePTS is type in the address the parent gives you in a "Locate Address" box. The program will then show you exactly where they live. Better yet, the software has a number of ways of showing you the active stops closest to the address. With just a few mouse clicks, you can give parents the necessary information they need to get their child to school! And anyone in the district can answer these questions if the district wants: edulog will help the district set up the appropriate security settings and permissions.
When you assign a student to a bus stop, the software will help you do some of the thinking. It will run several checks and notify you if using the stop would require the child to cross a hazard street.
How many kids on the bus, who are they, can we get in touch with the parents if necessary? In three minutes or less you can have that information in your hands by printing the route sheet with a passenger list and emergency contacts.
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