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Mill Creek board approves Transfinder integrations after first-week bus problems
Summary
The Mill Creek Township School District approved two Transfinder add-ons — GPS Connect ($3,350) and Viewfinder ($6,750) — to give district staff direct access to bus GPS data and trip reports after widespread first-week delays tied to a driver shortage and spotty GPS feeds from the contractor, First Student.
The Mill Creek Township School District board voted to purchase two Transfinder integrations — GPS Connect for $3,350 and Viewfinder for $6,750 — intended to give district staff direct, searchable access to real-time and historical bus GPS data.
District finance staff and transportation officials said the tools will help the district measure bus arrival times, manage field-trip and extracurricular dispatching, and produce reports needed to hold the contractor, First Student, to the district’s contract standards.
“We're gonna be able to identify to the second how late a bus is from the stops that it is supposed to be at,” said Aaron O’Toole, the district finance/operations presenter. He described GPS Connect as software that pulls First Student’s vehicle GPS feed into Transfinder so the district can run reports…
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