East Baton Rouge school bus tracking app could face delay (WheresTheBus)

WAFB ^ | 8/07/18 | Cheryl Mercedes

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EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, LA (WAFB) - Tech support at the East Baton Rouge Parish School System (EBRPSS) is scrambling to get a school bus tracking app online in time for the start of school. Students return on Thursday. Leaders cannot confirm when the app will be ready.

Some 600 bright yellow school buses are ready to roll across the parish. They were all updated last school year with GPS trackers. Chief of Student Support Services Gary Reese says it helps system leaders keep drivers on time and accountable.

"The GPS is functioning. We see every bus," Reese said.

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The technology by Trip Spark gives school systems a real-time view of bus locations, includes an interactive history, and a list of bus stops and times. Now, parents will be able to see their kids' bus too. An app called WheresTheBus lets parents know when their child's bus will arrive. Reese says the icon on the map updates every ten seconds. All you need is an internet connection.

If they could only do this with terrorists hiding out in the desert.

[a fool in paradise]

>>Chief of Student Support Services Gary Reese says it helps system leaders keep drivers on time and accountable.

can’t have THAT

is there an app to keep teachers accountable too?

PS my city has such a texting app to give you an approximate time of when the next bus will be there. It’s still BS and you’ll find yourself waiting 20+ minutes for a bus that is supposed to be there every 8-10 minutes and it will assure you that the next bus is only a 2 minutes away. Also late at night it will tell so “sorry, last bus has ‘sailed’ no service until 5am” and you’ll see two more in service buses blow by.