Frequently Asked Questions

  • Run consolidation (a table of dead head time or gaps between routes). This is where the most money is saved.

  • To determine, for a specified fleet, which customer should be served by which vehicles in a minimum total travel time. Constraints can include vehicle capacities and client time windows.

  • Capacity, amount of travel time, federal regulations? Yes. If we exceed a restriction, we need to increase the number of routes.

  • The best route is based on Total Travel Time which is determined by the Travel Time Table (Algorithm tree). This table gives you the minimum travel time in a sequence.

  • School District boundary which is set up by the school district, students information (school, bells times, etc.), employee information file (hours, days work).

  • No.

  • We provide a written guarantee in the contract.

  • No. We use our own program to retrieve and maintain data.

  • Yes.

  • Hand built unique Edgar program customized to take whatever data we get and transfer that to FoxPro.

  • Yes.

  • Modified tiger database, includes X&Y coordinates, latitude and longitude, street, city code, peak and midday speed.

  • It is building the network or map.

  • We use metric (gives you the actual point) and also UTM (Universal Transfer Mercator). UTM is the flattening of the globe of actual meters versus degrees (minutes & seconds). Degrees mapping (Globular) is an estimate and what most of our competitors use.

  • We use the number address ranges on each intersection. Each intersection has anode and bnode number, and these nodes help us pinpoint the location. These addresses or information are all based on TIGER File, a primary file that includes city code (what city), and zip code.

  • Yes.

  • Yes, the routes only.

  • Windows 7, 10, 11

  • PC Pentium based computer, 1.7 GHZ or greater CPU, 100 or greater GB hard disk, 512K Ram or greater memory.

  • Equipment installation and software installation, client street network modifications, client software requirements modifications, including on site personalized training, and system instruction manual.

  • It is based on the size of the network, the number of students to route, number of busses, and number routes.

  • Personalized on site training, telephone, and online.

  • Depending on the product you are interested in. For the routing and scheduling, the cost is based on the size of the network, the number of students, number of busses, and number of routes. Please refer to contact us for quotes.