Our Core Route Planning Solution
Get the best routing solution out there.
BusPlanner Pro, our route planning application, is the bedrock of our pupil transportation management suite.
BusPlanner Server,
BusPlanner Tasks, and our
BusPlanner Info API round out your solution and give you the essentials you need to plan your routes.
Pupil Transportation Management Software
BusPlanner Pro provides flexible, efficient routing solutions for K-12 transportation professionals.
Its intuitive, easy-to-use interface enables all staff to easily access vital information and plan bus routes,
while helping you analyze the effectiveness and cost of your overall solution. Using BusPlanner Pro's effective and innovative tools,
you can accomplish more with your time and improve the service you provide.
Key Features to Help You Succeed
- Easy-To-Use user interface with easy-to-learn map & data accessibility
- Flexible Productivity Tools to help manage your daily transportation needs
- Powerful Optimization Tools for generating improved transportation solutions
- Automatic Transfer Management to make student transfers painless
- KPI & Analysis Functionality to measure the effectiveness of your solution
- Customizable Reports, Maps & Extracts to get data out
- Effective & automatic Troubleshooting Tools to eliminate problems
- Planning and Scenario Management tools to help build better solutions
- Intelligent Student Data Update Tools to keep your student data current
Get Answers Quickly
BusPlanner Pro’s productivity tools provide answers and quick access to commonly requested questions. Get more information or details directly from query results – without having to exit what you were doing.
Time-saving, daily-use features offered by BusPlanner Pro include:
- Eligibility querying by address, grade, program
- Address searching
- Distance calculators (both walking and driving calculations)
- Powerful searching and reporting/listing queries for quick information on virtually any criteria - students with alternate addresses, run manifests, etc.
- Data verification tools to ensure your data makes sense (overloaded runs, out of boundary students by board, etc.)
Seamless Third-Party Integration
You need to know that your routing solution will work with your existing technology. BusPlanner Pro has you covered. Features include:
- SIS Integration: Import any student data, in any format, from any system – then export it back out with busing data
- Customizable Reports: Export student lists, route summaries, details, manifests and timelines to Windows applications
- GPS Tracking & Analysis: Use our optional BusPlanner GPS module to analyze what’s actually happening on the road – and apply that knowledge to your routing solution
Plan, Analyze, Optimize
BusPlanner Pro’s
Optimization Toolkit offers tools for:
- Bus Stop generation and population, including support for multiple student addresses
- Run generation with options for blended loading between multiple schools or districts
- Optimized run coupling into routes, for optimized vehicle use and minimized deadhead distance between runs
- Bell Time optimization, where bell times are shifted for optimal run tiering and immediate bus savings
Meanwhile, BusPlanner Pro’s standard
Planning and Analysis Toolkit will help you:
- Plan for both regular and summer school needs
- Analyze the effectiveness of your system
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Optimize for scenarios such as school closures or changes to walking distance policies
Multi-User Data Server
The BusPlanner Server product provides simultaneous, multi-threaded access to corporate databases for route planners operating in a real-time environment. Advantages include:
- All staff have access to the same corporate databases
- Changes made by one user are immediately reflected and seen by other users
- Manage access to multiple databases at once, including live, planning, and test copies
- Perform map work and regular daily routing – all at the same time
Automated Task Scheduler
BusPlanner Tasks is an automated task scheduler that links BusPlanner Pro and your Windows Task Scheduler together. With this simple yet effective product, you can:
- Automate nightly student imports and exports
- Schedule automated backups and Web refreshes for convenience and security
- Get immediate email notifications for unsuccessful tasks
BusPlanner Tasks is included with your BusPlanner Server install.
Transportation Information Service
BusPlanner Info is a transportation information API designed to provide your BusPlanner data to external applications, including:
- Student information systems
- Interactive voice response (IVR) technology
- GPS-specific applications
- Other third parties
BusPlanner Info is a live web services product that can replicate data between applications or service live information requests directly from your transportation database.
With it, your BusPlanner data is accessible to our
BusPlanner Apps, as well as our
BusPlanner GPS,
Workflow, and
Trips products.
With the flexible published API, third-party applications can easily get the information they need directly from your transportation database—whenever it’s required.