Practical Ways Districts Can Lower Costs Without Cutting Service
Effective transportation budgets start with understanding how daily operational decisions drive costs.
In this webinar, we share practical actions districts can take from day one to control transportation spending.
Gus Munoz
Ron Jones
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When you can show real numbers and a plan to save money, you earn leeway to protect what you need for safety, training, and buses.
Ron Jones
Strategies to Drive Efficient Transportation Budgets
Transportation budgets are shaped by daily routing, staffing, and operational decisions. Districts can lower costs while maintaining reliability and safety in the following ways:
Identify Hidden Cost Drivers
Learn how driver shortages, overtime, fuel variability, and service expectations quietly increase transportation costs over time.
Reduce Everyday Overspending
Recognize routing based on eligibility instead of actual ridership, late route changes, and unreviewed field trips as sources of avoidable expenses.
Improve Operational Decisions
Understand how bell schedules, permanent stop additions, and outdated enrollment or address data increase the need for additional routes, buses, and drivers.
Use Data Proactively
Compare scheduled routes against actual run time and distance, confirm ridership using student scans and counts, and target specific routes for mid-year adjustments.
TXZero-load stops are low-hanging fruit: you can cut those out immediately and shave minutes off the run.
Ron Jones
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