The Solutions to
Fixing Student Mobility
Solutions that are Adaptable, Flexible, and Available to All
The future of student mobility is adaptable and connected solutions unbound by current structures and differentiated for each community’s unique context. School mobility must shift away from a “yellow bus” service and move towards multimodal ecosystems that are designed and deployed to meet each student’s unique mobility needs. To achieve this vision, student mobility must occupy an elevated place within education reform, with student mobility tied to core education and access goals, broader public infrastructure, and funding strategies.
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Organizations and People
Create multi-sector collaboration and governance, expand capacities and mindsets, and inspire new models of work. -
Differentiating Service
Just like in education, “one size fits all” transportation models are broken. Learn how a system providing a spectrum of options works better. -
Policy and Funding
Design flexible solutions and cross-cutting initiatives that are contextualized for local needs. -
Pilot Projects
Partner to build coalitions, grow targeted and thriving ecosystems, and strategically develop capacities.
Solutions: Learn and Understand
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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
Solutions: Explore Case Studies
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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 -
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
Solutions: Implement Strategies
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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 -
How to Strategically Differentiate Service
One-size doesn’t fit all. Integrate local transit networks, radically rethink routing and scheduling, and expand supply options.Read More