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Bytecurve Launches New Mobile App to Share School Bus Location With Parents & Guardians
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Bytecurve launches new mobile app to share school bus location with parents & guardians
Notify app decreases calls between school officials, parents and transportation departments
CHICAGO — School administrators struggling to start the school day on time due to late or missing buses have a new suite of digital tools to help manage the persistent challenge.
Bytecurve, a leading provider of cloud-based payroll and dispatch software solutions for student transportation departments, today announced the launch of Notify, a real-time school bus tracking mobile app designed to empower school administrators with enhanced visibility and improved management.
Building on the success of Bytecurve360, the company’s flagship suite of Dispatch and Payroll/Timekeeping solutions, Notify goes beyond basic school bus tracking functionalities typically offered to parents or transportation departments.
This innovative app provides school administrators, including teachers, principals, and support staff, with a real-time view of school bus locations and notifications, fostering a more flexible learning environment.
“Notify is the next innovative solution from Bytecurve designed to improve the student transportation experience,” said GP Singh, President.,
“This is the answer to make real-time bus location data available to a wider audience to improve the school bus experience.”
The app will allow parents and administrators to:
- Pick multiple bus runs to follow: Track on the map and view status information
- Receive run level status notifications sent by the Dispatcher from B360 Dispatch
- Receive messages sent by the dispatcher via a messaging screen
“We listened to our customers from across the industry repeatedly share their frustration that school bus tracking information is only available in certain departments at each
district, frustrating principals and teachers simply looking to better understand their daily arrivals and departures,” said Singh.
Bytecurve and busHive are part of Transit Technologies, a leading provider of software solutions designed to drive safety, efficiency, and operational excellence into public and private fleets.
“We’re excited to be part of helping more students and administrators arrive at school on time every day,” said Gerry Leonard, CEO, Transit Technologies. “We aspire to be the essential school bus software provider, and this innovative solution is another important innovation in that journey.”
About Bytecurve
Bytecurve solutions are used by school districts across the country, helping student transportation departments save money on payroll, improve on time performance with smarter dispatching and modernize driver performance with the DriveOn mobile app.
“When it was all on paper, where we were flipping through trying to figure out who’s next in line, it was easy to skip someone. busHive makes it so much easier.”
“Where is Bus 17?” ……
“And why is it always late?”
Every morning across thousands of school districts, administrators and dispatchers engage in countless back and forth phone calls and texts to seek updates on late or delayed buses.
The reasons are as diverse as the student populations they serve:
- Students running late to their stop
- Sudden significant traffic accident
- Construction on the route
- New bus driver learning a challenging route
- Substitute driver trying to navigate a new route
This app will unleash tracking data to allow more people to make better informed decisions about school bus locations, delivering increased safety and improving community relations.
School administrators and parents will have a real time view and reduce the burden on dispatchers to update multiple people every day.
“We know how disruptive a late or missing driver can be for the timely start of the school day, and our software is designed to help schools respond more rapidly and intelligently to these challenges,” Singh said.
“And this new mobile application is a natural extension of that commitment to student safety and more effective student transportation.”
Notify bridges this previous information gap by empowering educators with the information they need to effectively manage student arrivals, dismissals, and unexpected delays.
Bytecurve360 is the essential school bus efficiency platform, delivering a command-and-control dashboard by merging routing and GPS tracking data into the most powerful tool available for administrators focused on driving down costs and increasing on time arrivals.
Availability and Pricing: The Notify app is available immediately on Android and Apple app stores as an integrated module within the Bytecurve360 suite.
“The calls, complaints, and headaches that were typical with the previous system have been essentially eliminated.”
