Millions of schoolchildren take a ride to and from school on buses every day. Quite frequently we hear about multiple problems with the school buses. The
school bus did not arrive on time, the
bus did not show up at all, or the time or place of a
bus stop has changed without notification—all these problems are unfortunately very common. Today's School Transportation systems do not always work as fast and as reliably as it is reasonably expected. These systems use phone or fax-based communication. These methods are slow, inefficient, and can be catastrophic since children's safety is on the line. Online Schoolchildren Transportation Management Method,
System, and
Computer Program Products, store data and provide real-time communication between the main participants of the schoolchildren transportation process: school transportation officers, district, county and / or state transportation management, schoolchildren and / or parents, and / or
school bus drivers via a Web based network. Embodiments of the present invention allow efficient and streamlined communications between the main participants of the School Children Transportation Process to solve the following: Student's Transportation
Change Request and Response; Transportation Information Lookup and Reporting in Real-Time; Transportation Emergencies and Exceptions;
Bus Stop Location Change / Addition; Automatic Request / Response Notification Flow;
Bus Arrival / Departure information; Management Reporting; Field Trips Request;
Special Needs / Handicapped, Front
Desk / Call Center Operator and etc. The new
system (method,
computer program) provides a framework for uniform and standardized
information exchange between
System Participants, thus guarantying uniform data collection,
processing and reporting and opening numerous additional benefits to further utilization of the collected data.