2. General Requirements/Features The software should provide a comprehensive school bus routing system to include: Creating safe bus stops and efficient routes for regular and special education students. Allowing for students to have multiple pick-up and drop-off addresses as well as transportation to other schools in the county outside of their feeder school. Identifying the location of students. Providing metadata regarding students assigned to stops and routes. Display of school attendance area boundaries Organizing up-to-date information on bus drivers, bus attendants, and school bus vehicles. Utilize individual student data to facilitate the bus routing process; such as location, direction students must walk, etc. Calculate stop times and school arrival times. Provide printable turn-by-turn route descriptions for each bus driver’s route. The Software interface must be “user-friendly”, easy to navigate, and minimize the need to know technical terms. 3 Data Management Provide an agreeable method whereby PowerSchool enrollment transactions will update the daily transportation routing data store. System has an “easy” process of dealing with breaks in the centerline street map. Accommodate boundaries between attendance areas which are defined by street centerline. Permit user edits to computed boundaries. Provide mapping technology that will allow scaling (zooming in and out).
