Effective transportation management is crucial for the school administrations as it is important to provide safe and dependable transportation services for students commuting between the school and home. However, transportation teams often lack access to important data insights, such as reports on unsafe driving, route compliance and maintenance issues, which are critical to maintaining safety & reliability and attaining cost optimization.
With the ever-increasing number of fleets in modern day schools, managing a large number of school buses across multiple routes in an efficient and cost-effective manner, accurate visibility into the fleet operations is required. That’s where MANTIS can help you. MANTIS along with the school bus location tracking, also provides powerful analytics and data insights which can be used by the management for analysis and important decision-making. With the real-time access to student’s live location through MANTIS, parents also tend to feel satisfied with the school services.
1. MANTIS is a next-generation school bus tracking solution that provides enhanced visibility into the operations of each school bus and thus ensures child safety, operational efficiency and reduced transportation costs.
2. The detailed analytics provided by the school bus tracking system can furnish vital data for identifying the primary causes of excessive fuel expenses and identifying drivers who are not fuel-efficient and need coaching to become more economical drivers.
3. Data analytics from MANTIS can also help in effective route optimisation, that can help schools to use existing fleets on multiple routes, leading to a major cost cutting by eliminating the need of buying new fleets every now and then.
School Bus Monitoring System
Let’s take a deep dive into how the school tracking system can contribute to the cost cutting, along with keeping parents happy:
Undoubtedly, operating and maintaining the school bus fleet is one of the most costly components of the school budgeting. Despite their high cost, buses are a necessary component of every school as without the effective bus service from school, the parents can feel uneasy in picking and dropping the students on regular basis. Also, to keep increasing the transportation fee significantly every year can lead to unhappy parents.
As a result, it is essential for the schools to take every possible measure to reduce bus transportation costs, along with covering all required stops in order to keep the parents happy.
The cost of bus transportation depends on several factors including the age of the fleet, wages of the driver and other transportation related staff, maintenance expenses, fuel consumption and insurance charges, distance travelled on daily basis, contributing to 90% of the total cost on a regular basis. Capital costs such as the purchase of new fleet, fleet replacement, hiring or replacing the staff are also the significant costs which cannot be ignored as they take a huge space in the school budget.
Operating the school’s existing school bus fleet at peak efficiency can significantly impact the amount of the cost saving achieved.
Here Are The Top 5 Ways, Mantis Can Help You:
1. Route Optimisation:
The most practical approach to cost reduction without compromising the bus service quality is through efficient route management. The optimal cost-cutting method aims to transport students to school efficiently while optimising transport times. School authorities must review their bus routes in terms of the number of students utilising the bus and the time required. Making alterations in pickup times of the elementary and primary students can help in covering more students in single trip. Minor changes in operations, such as minimising trips and routes, often result in significant cost savings.
MANTIS provides detailed reports and easy to understand analytics that can help you in making these decisions. The in-app map view of the routes and analytics in the form of charts and tables help the authorities to review and manage the routes and trips efficiently.
School Bus Location Tracking System
2. Cutting The Need Of New Fleet Purchase
With effective route optimisation, another benefit that comes is reduction in number of fleets required for the daily operations. As a result, school authorities can plan their existing fleets in an effective manner and can eliminate/reduce the need of buying new buses. The ability to curb the need of new purchases can help in major cost-cutting.
3. Operational Excellence
Ineffective fleet operations can reduce the student safety and lead to unnecessary costs such as extra fuel consumption and undesired wear and tear to the school buses. With the proper tools and motivation, almost all drivers can quickly improve their driving skills and become safer and more cost-efficient drivers.
This is where MANTIS can play an important role. MANTIS tracks and provides the analytics on repeated events of overspeeding, sudden breaks or sudden accelerations and can help school authorities with effective driver monitoring. By providing accurate real-time feedback on their driving, drivers tend to drive more carefully, reduce distractions and pay more attention to the road. Building a safety culture within the team can result in significant and permanent reduction in chances of accidents, as well as lower total fuel costs (10%-20%), fleet maintenance costs and overall risk.
4. Timely Fleet Maintenance
Ineffective fleet operations can reduce the student safety and lead to unnecessary costs such as extra fuel consumption and undesired wear and tear to the school buses. With the proper tools and motivation, almost all drivers can quickly improve their driving skills and become safer and more cost-efficient drivers.
This is where MANTIS can play an important role. MANTIS tracks and provides the analytics on repeated events of overspeeding, sudden breaks or sudden accelerations and can help school authorities with effective driver monitoring. By providing accurate real-time feedback on their driving, drivers tend to drive more carefully, reduce distractions and pay more attention to the road. Building a safety culture within the team can result in significant and permanent reduction in chances of accidents, as well as lower total fuel costs (10%-20%), fleet maintenance costs and overall risk.
5. Cutting Staffing Needs
With the automated school bus tracking system, school authorities are able to conduct all the transportation operations in a paperless manner and can see a reduction in number of resources required to manage the activities. All the school bus management activities ranging from the route planning, route-optimising, school bus tracking, driver monitoring, student attendance, communication with parents to reports generation & records saving, all can be done right from the app and a single person can monitor all the activities. Therefore, schools don’t need to hire multiple staff for daily operations and can achieve major cost-cutting with MANTIS.
We understand that the number and operations of fleets can vary from school to school, therefore MANTIS provides easy customisation in the reporting and records module allowing the school authorities to get the information they need to achieve the desired cost optimization. For more information, reach us at: 8003620388.