Optimize every contract’s routes from one platform — eligibility, ride-time limits, and safety constraints handled per district, with fewer buses doing the same work.
See it with your own routesA contractor’s routing problem is a district’s routing problem multiplied: several districts, each with its own walk zones, bell schedules, special-education requirements, and board policies — often planned in whatever tool each district happens to use, or in spreadsheets that only one person understands. Guardian Route plans and optimizes routes per contract from one system, with each district’s rules applied automatically.
Every district you serve keeps its own configuration — walk zones, maximum ride times, stop-safety rules, bell schedules — and the optimizer respects them per contract. Eligibility (including hazard busing, IEP transportation, and McKinney-Vento school-of-origin transport) is evaluated before routes are built, so the routes you hand a district are defensible from the first draft.
The margin in a transportation contract lives in vehicle and driver count. Route consolidation and bell-tier chaining — one bus running elementary, then middle, then high school tiers — let the same fleet cover more service. When the optimizer removes an overlapping route, that is a bus, a driver, insurance, and maintenance off the cost side of a fixed-price contract.
Districts send roster changes all year: new students, moves, mid-year IEPs. Guardian Route ingests roster updates (OneRoster sync or file drops) and re-optimizes affected routes on demand — so route quality does not decay from September to June the way hand-patched routes do.
Guardian Route is multi-tenant by design: one login runs routing for every district you serve, while each district’s data stays isolated and each school office can get its own scoped portal. You get one system to learn and staff against, instead of one tool per contract.
Because routing and cost analytics live in the same platform, you can model what a prospective contract’s service actually takes — buses, hours, miles — and bid from data. The same numbers back you up at renewal time.
Yes. Guardian Route is multi-tenant: you manage routing, tracking, and reporting for every contract from one login while each district’s data stays isolated, with per-district configuration for walk zones, ride-time limits, and bell schedules.
Yes. The eligibility engine evaluates IEP transportation needs and McKinney-Vento school-of-origin transport before routing, and plans those as individual address-based assignments alongside general-education routes.
Yes. Smart import brings in students, stops, and routes from CSV or Excel exports, and the engine can re-optimize from there — you review everything before it goes live.
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