A single-source solution with a trusted vendor ensures your products will function now and long into the future.
Manage all resources to do more with less: optimal routes and bus capacity.
Browser-based solution to provide secure access away from the office.
Fast implementation timelines and quick employee learning curve.
Single vendor supplier to ensure quality service and long-term maintenance.
"On a football game day we’ll have about 25,000 [students] riding on our buses. With TripSpark we can monitor the passenger counts and keep track of when the passengers are going where and that will help us to apply the buses as we need to."
Randy Davidson
Senior IT, Texas A&M University Transportation Services
"What the tool allowed us to do was shrink our number of buses by doing better routing. In addition, better customer service. We had an increased level of confidence when we spoke to parents."
Kelly Shahan
Transportation Manager, Red Clay Consolidated School District
"It was exciting and reassuring to see an integrated GPS system that leveraged our existing TripSpark software."
Bradley Redmond
Transportation Director, West Fargo Public Schools
The start of the school year is just around the corner. Are you as prepared as you could be? We’ve been in the K-12 transportation software business for a long time, and over the years, we’ve had many conversations with school transportation administrators on how to start the...
Our latest customer story took me to Tulsa, Oklahoma to visit Debbie Ruggles, Interim General Manager at Tulsa Transit. It was great to speak with Debbie and learn about her long history with Tulsa Transit as well as how DriverMate has been improving processes for their...
When riders think of your agency, what words come to mind? Agencies hope they evoke words like convenient, quick and comfortable. That’s branding in a nutshell; it’s the collection of ideas that are associated with your name.
To build your ridership, you’ll want riders...
Ohio is home to over 11 million people. Many of these people rely on transit or paratransit services to get around, and demographic factors suggest that number is going to rise. With increasing demand and limited administrative resources, Ohio agencies need an effective, easy to...
We recently produced our first ever K-12 education customer video, featuring Kelly Shahan, Transportation Manager at Red Clay Consolidated School District. See Kelly explain how TripSpark’s VEO Now student transportation software has enabled Red Clay to improve operational...
So why work at TripSpark? TripSpark is a great place to work for many reasons! TripSpark knows that a positive workplace culture fosters innovation and progress. But don’t just take my word for it. Hear what our employees have to say about...
There is no bigger concern for parents than the safety of their children. Approximately 30% of parents as polled in August of 2015 have serious concerns about their children’s safety at school. However, school bus transportation has consistently proven to be a safe....
The 41st annual NAPT Summit is quickly approaching (Nov 6-10). This year’s motto is Engage, Explore and Empower. We’ve taken this to heart and have 5 great reasons why you should come by the TripSpark Education booth. You can skip to #5 if you want to get to the giveaways...
Every member of your school transportation team is focused on making student safety their main priority. From October 19-23, National School Bus Safety Week reminds us of this fact, so we should all take a moment to appreciate how well our industry has already been doing. This...
Depending on the state in which your school district is located, the task of getting kids to and from their homes may have gotten a little more complicated. As of August, 2015 this Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling makes it a legal obligation for districts to provide student...
One of the most prevalent problems in the school transportation industry has been bus driver retention. Driver shortage has been a serious issue among many North American school districts, especially this past year. In the 2014 School Bus Fleet’s Top 100 School District Fleets...
The thing we all remember about field trips when we were kids was the paperwork: permission slips. As children, we weren’t aware of the major headache and massive amount of paperwork that schools encountered due to organizing and managing field trips. Modern-day school...
In every transportation operation, there are many moving parts. One of the things that we consistently address is the benefits of automation, maintaining a digital database and integrating systems into a single-source solution. However, among these many moving parts are people...
Is it coincidence that virtually every sales opportunity I am engaged in, within school transportation departments, has someone from IT engaged – and from the very beginning? Clearly it’s no coincidence. Why? The trend in transportation is to use data from one solution and...
TripSpark is excited to announce the new direction for Trapeze Group K-12 transportation software division. As such, TripSpark will now take over operation of the school division from its sister company, Trapeze Group. We’re also excited because of the benefits we can offer our...
School buses are actually already statistically far safer than riding in a family vehicle, at least the NHTSA claims this to be so. This PDF shows that only a mere 1% of devastating injuries are caused to students traveling by school bus. In fact, in a 10-year study from...
