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STUDENT TRANSPORTATION CONSULTING SERVICES

s the nation’s #1 provider of consulting services for school district support service operations, The Portolan Group is prepared to provide immediate assistance to your student transportation department. Transportation departments are seeing constant cost increases (i.e. fuel and labor) that are higher than the average consumer price index.

Added to these increased costs are challenges presented by new curriculum and instruction requirements. The growth of special programs (i.e. NCLB, magnet, charter, ESE, and other choice offerings) is placing ever-increasing demands on student transportation services. Thus, transportation departments across America are constantly looking for ways to contain cost and improve service.

The Portolan Group has developed a transportation assessment program that can be tailored to fit your specific needs. At the heart of our assessment program is our Transportation Performance Index. This tool creates critical performance ratings in thirteen categories to provide an overall operational performance rating. These categories include:

Organization Culture
Organization and Administration
Finance and Budgetary Control
Quality Assurance
Training
Regulatory Compliance, Safety
Staffing and Schedules
Operations
Routing and Scheduling
Fleet Management
Procurement/Purchased Services
Metrics and Data Analysis
Management Information System/IT

This tool should become a vital component of any transportation department’s QA program.

Our assessments may be customized to your specific need: a comprehensive review of the entire department or one department category: finance, routing, staffing, fleet management, customer service and/or transportation policy.

We have recently completed a thorough review of the transportation department of the Duval County Schools in Jacksonville, FL, the nation’s 20th largest school district. Contact us and let our consulting professionals provide you the same excellent analysis to help you improve your student transportation service.