Resources
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Service Differentiation in Stop Design
See how Cincinnati Public Schools used a differentiated approach to adjust home-to-stop levels and achieved better routing efficiency over a multi-year span.Read More -
The Student Mobility Efficiency Pyramid
From long-term planning to real-time tech-enabled solutions, examine how systems can be designed to contain costs and improve efficiencies.Read More -
Reimagining Student Mobility Webinar #1: Challenges & Solutions
An overview of the forces shaping student mobility and 4MATIV’s framework for addressing those challenges.Read More -
Reimagining Student Mobility Webinar #2: Strategic Differentiation
An overview of how strategic differentiation can personalize student mobility and improve overall efficiency.Read More -
Reimagining Student Mobility Webinar #3: A Policy Playbook
An overview of solutions for creating a student-centered transportation network that’s more accessible, equitable, flexible, and costs less.Read More -
Reimagining Student Mobility Webinar #4: Direct Parent Payment as a Mobility Support
Parent Payment provides schools with a versatile alternative to traditional bus or van services, effectively addressing driver shortages and high costs of providing mobility support.Read More -
Reimagining Student Mobility Webinar #5: Tackling Chronic Absenteeism
Learn how reliable, flexible transportation solutions serve as a powerful intervention strategy, potentially turning around attendance rates for our most vulnerable students.Read More -
Webinar: Ringing in Change–Strategic Bell Time Optimization
A discussion of the efficiencies gained by aligning and balancing bell times.Read More -
Webinar: Optimizing Student Transportation for Access & Efficiency Part 1 + 2
A discussion on how to utilize data to make meaningful changes to create positive change in transportation systems.Read More -
Webinar: DIY: Start your own Bus Operator
Webinar featuring David Dillman, who successfully launched Abundant Transportation, a non-profit transportation solution serving Arizona charter schools.Read More -
Creating a Local Non-Profit Vendor / Operator Network
Explore how schools in Indianapolis, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Houston worked with local partners to stand-up their own non-profit transportation operators and created self-sufficiency, cost efficiency, and new service for other schools in their marketsComing Soon -
Where Direct Payments to Parents Work
Without any bus or van service, see how Meeting Street - Jasper and Beaufort and other schools in the 4MATIV network offer targeted payments to families to relieve the burden of transporting their own students.Coming Soon -
The Problem of “Creeping Service Levels”
Learn how even the best designed systems become more inefficient and more brittle over time if they are under managed.Coming Soon -
Assess the Magnitude of Your Own Inefficiency
Back of the envelope calculations to see what efficiencies are possible and learn how far a system is from optimal.Read More -
Student Mobility Policy Playbook
Seven practical policy solutions to create a more accessible, student-centered, and equitable transportation network that adds flexibility and lower costs.Read More -
Student Mobility Funding Playbook
Six funding recommendations that ensure policies and mandates receive the financial assistance they need to fully support student learning.Read More -
Optimizing Bell Times: A Consequential System Design Choice
Explore how aligning, spacing, and balancing bell times can improve the efficiency of any student transportation system.Read More -
Track Actual Ridership and Utilization
Systematically evaluate your transportation plan to determine how to best meet family needs, optimize routes, consolidate stops, and address absenteeism.Read More -
Understand Mode of Transport
Capture and share which modes each student uses so you can find targeted solutions to attendance problems and improve parity and efficiency.Read More -
Creating a Multi-Vendor, Multi-School Ecosystem in Minneapolis-St. Paul
Explore how Minneapolis-St. Paul’s unique landscape has made it possible to create solutions through an informal coalition of charter schools.Coming Soon -
Create a Learner-Centric Approach to Student Mobility
Instead of prioritizing the needs of systems and organizations, it’s time to put students first. Explore what is required for a learner-centric strategy.Coming Soon -
Pieces of the Policy Puzzle
Before identifying solutions for student mobility, we must first untangle a mess of regulatory complexities, administrative hurdles, and misaligned incentives.Read More -
The Problem of Fragmented Systems
Until successful models are adopted more widely, siloes are dismantled, and geography and economic barriers are effectively accounted for, real school choice will not be possible.Read More -
Closing Capacity Gaps
Technology adoption is disparate and too slow, school systems lack the qualified people to run them, and outmoded mindsets continue to perpetuate old ways of operating.Read More