Tracking your school buses improves students’ safety and helps build parent trust and leads to cost reduction in vehicle maintenance.
September brings with it the new academic session and it could be a great time for school administrators to review their school transport system especially their driver’s behaviour and students’ safety. The new year also means new students are added to the school bus transport system, new additional routes, and more planning to ensure buses are fully optimized for the new session. These can be overwhelming and having a GPS tracking system can be of great benefit.
In a city like Lagos where gridlocks are becoming a norm, parents need some kind of reassurance that their kids are safe and that the drivers’ behavior is continuously monitored to ensure safe transit to and fro the school campus. Parents sometimes panic when the school bus does not arrive on time, due to heavy traffic or other conditions, with no proper communication by the school transport administrators.
Instanta Telematics offers the following benefits and more to a school transport system.
Student safety
The number one priority for school administrators is the safety and well being of their students, whether on campus or in the school buses. GPS tracking of school buses helps improve the safety of students as school administrators can:
- View the location of their buses in transit or at rest.
- Get notified if there’s a situation that needs urgent intervention such as towing, crash, excessive idling, etc.
- Easily communicate with parents about late drop off and pick-ups
- Geofence specific areas within the campus like the bus pick up and drop off zones, hostels, cafeteria, filling stations. The school administrators receive alerts when buses enter and exit those locations.
Reduction in maintenance cost
Another major concern for school administrators is the limited running budget for school maintenance, with tightened operational budgets and the need to constantly cut costs, lowering expenses on your fleet maintenance without sacrificing bus reliability and safety with GPS tracking is helpful. A GPS tracking system helps you optimize your bus route, improve preventive maintenance and monitor fuel consumption.
Build Trust Between Parents and School Administrators
With GPS tracking systems like Instanta telematics, school administrators can keep parents informed at all times, especially when buses are delayed. This is a great way to repay the warranted parents’ trust by placing their children to ride on the school bus. With Instanta Fleet, bulk notifications can be sent to parents when buses are delayed. This helps communicate unexpectedly delays to parents.
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