GIS for Bus Routing

School Bus Routes

The display and analysis power of GIS is supported by real-world GIS data including streets, school locations, student residences, bus stops, and other community geographic features and attributes.

Use GIS to solve transportation functions such as

• Developing geographically-accurate walk zones.
• Selecting bus stop and shelter locations.
• Creating optimized bus routes including the use of road attributes.
• Tracking vehicles and monitoring fleet and driver performance.
• Managing field trips and special needs routing.
• Producing map and text driver instructions and reports.

Public Transportation

GIS can be used to manage and analyze critical information such as

• Route planning and analysis
• Bus dispatch and emergency response
• Automatic vehicle location and tracking
• Paratransit scheduling and routing
• Bus stop and facility inventory
• Rail system facility management
• Track, power, communications, and signal maintenance
• Accident reporting and analysis
• Demographic analysis and route restructuring
• Ridership analysis and reporting
• Transportation planning and modeling

Read GIS Provides Customer Satisfaction for Hong Kong Bus Company to learn about the company's new Digital Map Passenger Enquiry System (DMPES) that is based on ESRI software.
Directions Magazine—by Jim Baumann, ESRI

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