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First Student Inc.
Corporate Headquarters
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Suite 1500 Cincinnati, OH 45202
513-241-2200 phone
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If your school system is like most, you’re trying to balance limited resources with increasing demands for services. Outsourcing student transportation can help you hold down costs while maintaining high levels of safety and control.
When you trust your transportation needs to the experts at First Student, you can focus more attention on the educational needs of your students. As North America’s leading operator of yellow school buses, we can provide you with a full range of proven, budget-smart services, such as…
Full turnkey contracting Eliminate virtually all of your transportation headaches with our comprehensive services. We take care of every element of school transportation, from providing buses and planning route schedules to staffing the terminal and managing waste. (Learn more about turnkey contracting)
Bus leasing and maintenance Upgrade your bus fleet with minimum outlay. Because we have developed partnerships with selected manufacturers, we can assure maximum cost-effectiveness on well-maintained vehicles that meet or exceed all standards and requirements.
Management contracting Draw on the insight of some of the savviest and most innovative professionals in the industry. Collectively our management team gives you access to more than 200 years of knowledge and experience, built on a record of safety and operational success. GPS & Student Tracking Alternatives We make the safety of your students our highest priority, equipping our fleet with the sophisticated Zonar GPS system to provide real-time child tracking and the ability to pinpoint the location of every vehicle.
This advanced system tracks usage data and automatically alerts transportation managers to buses with excess speeds and excess idling. Detailed trip information is merged with route planning software, ensuring you of the most efficient routing.
By combining the GPS system with the Child Checkmate safety system on every bus, we can provide real-time location information if a sleeping child inspection is not properly completed. Ground Traffic Control is integrated with Goggle Routing to give the system powerful routing capabilities, providing drivers with turn-by-turn directions.
Enjoy peace of mind knowing you can count on First Student for technology that ensures the safety of your students.
Route Optimization Studies Let First Student show you how to do the same work with fewer resources. Over the past 15 years, we’ve advised more than 200 school systems on enhancing routing efficiency and helped them effectively use or deploy routing and boundary planning systems. Our thorough assessment provides you with a clear picture of current situation, identifying what’s being done well and uncovering opportunities for improvement.
Detailed analysis provides a comprehensive roadmap for improvement, school by school, route by route. We point out opportunities for policy and bell schedule changes that may provide additional savings. We assess growth and offer recommendations that combine growth and efficiency to reduce times, trim routes, and optimize load.
Put our routing expertise and best practices to work for your school system to increase efficiency--and save money!
Charter Services You can depend on First Student for top-quality, affordable transportation for field trips, sporting events, senior trips, event shuttles--whenever and wherever you need chartered services. Our highly trained drivers provide on-time reliability for pick-ups and drop-offs. We offer exceptional experience, safely carrying 4 million students to school every day all across the United States and Canada. Our industry-leading certified professional drivers receive extensive ongoing safety and security training. Our sister transit company provides more than 200 million passenger trips per year for over 120 transit authorities, agencies, organizations and companies--further increasing our capacity to serve you. We operate well-maintained, fuel-efficient school buses, ensuring dependable chartered transportation at a very competitive price. Simplify your trip planning, for any size group and any kind of outing. Click here to book your next charter trip.
