Esri school bus routing software

Are you able to optimize routes and track vehicles and students in real-time in a single map view without installing software on your computer? With vMax Compass you can!

Download Brochure Get a Quote. With vMax Compass there is no software to install or servers to maintain. Dealing with multiple vendors or worrying about integration issues are a thing of the past.

Through tight integration with vMax Live Plus fleet tracking, all of your vehicle data can be accessed using the vMax Compass interface. Live vehicle positions, historical tracks and planned routes are displayed in a single map view, eliminating the need to export routes to tracking software to do route comparisons.

There is no software to install or servers to maintain. Simply log in from any web browser and start working. Plan routes, track vehicles and students, or monitor your video surveillance system in real-time. Student information systems are easily integrated to offer a seamless experience for users. Records can be managed in the student information system and synchronized to vMax Compass. See live, historical, and planned vehicle tracks in a single map view without the pain of importing GPS position data.

Get an up-to-the-minute list of vehicle occupants at the click of a button. Select the stops that you want to route, the vehicles you want to use, and in less than a few minutes, all your bus routes are automatically generated. Based on technology used by large logistics operations, such as FedEx and the US Military to route their vehicles, vMax Compass is specifically designed to meet the challenges of school transportation.

A powerful route solver will optimize all routes for bell times, mileage, hazards, turn restrictions, special needs equipment and number of vehicles. While Central Valley School District is one of the larger school districts in eastern Washington using GIS for bus routing, more and more school districts of all sizes are doing similar work and it's improving how they operate.

The Central Valley Transportation Department has for decades generated school routes using paper maps, pushpins, plastic transparencies, and colored pens. Addresses for every Central Valley student had to be located on a paper map and marked by hand. Using best judgment, transportation professionals then grouped the closest students, marked pickup points, and created the more than runs for students in the Central Valley School District.

But that was then. We can see all of the information when we need it. For instance, in the past, if a parent called and wanted to know the distance between their house and the nearest bus stop, a transportation official would often have to jump into a car, drive to the area, and manually calculate the distance. This was a timely process. Today, that process is automated and streamlined.

Now a user simply types in an address, clicks a computer screen icon, and displays a map with the closest bus stop marked. With a click of a button, the distance pops up on a screen. Above right: Reporting student information along with routes can be displayed in a few seconds.

Central Valley School District's success is stunning. Routes would be optimized and only students who lived outside the walk zone would be transported. The only exceptions to this rule are students who live in areas designated as hazardous for walking, such as areas under construction or areas with heavy traffic.

The company that designed SMARTR for Schools provides multiple planning solutions to aid in education including software that aids in planning for the present as well as the future.