b'Supersized TechnologyDispatcher Lisa Stallins works with Zonar Ground Traffic Control to monitor buses operated by Gwinnett County Schools in Georgia.portation at the school district, one year ago a driver didto estimate the amount of times that routes are going to not show up for a midday meeting that was called by hertake. Our GPS data gets uploaded daily with our rout-supervisor. Such behavior was unlike that driver, whiching software, he continued. The morning traffic might triggered concern. average 25 miles per hour, while the afternoon traffic We used GPS to locate her bus. It was in her normalmight average 35 miles per hour. This makes us a little parking space, so they went there and found her passedmore efficient by having more accurate information on out on her bus, Moore recalled. She had some type ofall of our roads.medical emergency, a seizure. Our dispatchers justMoore said the school bus drivers are performing their punched in the number of the bus and got an exactpre-trip and post-trip inspections using tablets. But he is location waiting for the parent app that tells parents when the bus Moore said the district has 1,900 buses, 1,636 of whichis coming, for fear that it might be abused. My biggest are on routes. The GPS equipment by Zonar has beenfear is that well have kids running to the bus stop at the installed on all of the districts buses. In addition, thelast minute, Moore said. I want to see if school districts Zonar telematics details feed into the Bus Planner routingthat have that are experiencing kids coming to the bus software. Moore reiterated the compatibility caution thatstop at the last minute, because of that technology.was voiced by Katrina Falk and acknowledged the sameSynovia Solutions, which was acquired by CalAmp benefit. earlier this year, is the GPS provider of choice for the Its interesting, because GPS [solutions] are a dime aCenterville City Schools in Dayton, Ohio. With that dozen, Moore said. We wanted to make sure we integrat- technology, we can monitor our buses in real time and ed it into our routing software. Its more than knowingif we need to, [we can] send another bus to assist, said where a bus is, at a particular time. Andrew Grasty, assistant director of transportation. Moore explained that the district has been workingGrasty described that at their operation, We always 58School Transportation NewsSEPTEMBER 2019'