Students arrive for the first day of school at Northside Middle School in Columbus on Thursday.
COLUMBUS, Ind. — Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. is hoping to fix some issues with its transportation services buy installing new software.
The school board voted Monday to approve a transportation routing software contract with Transfinder. The corporation is based in Schenectady, New York, and provides logistics software to schools, municipalities and adult care facilities.
“We had some issues with our current routing software when we started school up this past fall,” said Director of Transportation AJ McKeand. “At that point in time, we decided we were going to go shopping, for a lack of words, to see what was out there.”
BCSC experienced some transportation issues during its first day of school in August, with some parents complaining on social media they could not find route maps and schedules, and also had trouble reaching the transportation department. At the time, Director of Operations Brett Boezeman said they had been dealing with “vendor-related routing software challenges” over the summer.
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