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Empowering Data-Driven Decision Making

Important data is often stored in many applications across the school district. Even within the transportation department there could be separate routing, fleet maintenance, and field trip software. With all of these different systems, the challenge becomes feeding data from each system into one information warehouse so Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are complete and accurate. This process also needs to be accomplished without creating time consuming tasks for the transportation or technology departments.

What is a KPI?

KPIs are specific metrics that help measure the performance of an operation. These metrics are then used as benchmarks, or comparison figures, to determine how the operation compares to last year, last month or even yesterday.

How does District Pulse Work?

District Pulse allows transportation directors, business managers and superintendents to monitor and evaluate transportation-industry standard KPIs with point and click ease. The Pulse engine automatically pulls the required data from Tyler’s Versatrans applications, compiles it and publishes it to web pages hosted on the district’s intranet. Providing the latest KPI results in an easy to learn and use format.

The display used by District Pulse allows professionals to spot trends and identify anomalies in the data which might otherwise have gone unnoticed and therefore unmanaged. Charts and graphs visually show how the operation is currently performing and allows for easy comparison to previous years. While more applications feeding data into District Pulse increase the number of KPIs that can be monitored, districts can still gain valuable insight with as few as two Versatrans applications.

Key Benefits for Your School District

• Affordable tool—cost effective data warehouse tool that is specifically designed for school districts.
• Year to year comparison—ability to archive historical periods, thus creating a benchmark that can be used for year to year comparison.
• Automatic data collection—automatic gathering of student, driver and vehicle information for detailed analysis.
• Useful for all operations of all sizes—designed to be scalable for any size fleet.
• Easy deployment—web-based system for easy deployment and minimal maintenance.
• Dynamic charts—easy to read charts with links to allow for further drill down and analysis.
• Graphs—integrated graphing to quickly decipher KPI results.

Statistical Elements of District Pulse

• Cost per student per year & per day—track and compare transportation budgets accurately or drill down to identify areas that could be more efficient.
• Cost per vehicle per day & per mile—quickly identify which vehicles maybe covering more miles each day and make adjustments to balance the miles between multiple vehicles.
• Average fuel costs per vehicle per year & day—spot which vehicles consume excessive fuel.
• Percentage of routes departing and arriving on time—know that drivers are completing their routes within the predetermined time frame.
• Total number, miles and cost of field trips per year—gain insight to the total cost of field trips.
• Total maintenance, repair, part & fuel costs—confidently make the decision to retire a vehicle based on what it costs rather than its age.
• Total & percentage of live & dead miles per year—easily compare live verses deadhead miles to make sure vehicles are not running empty for long periods of time.
• Total & percentage of live & dead hours per year—make sure that drivers are spending more time transporting students.

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May 25, 2010-Albany, NY
"Tyler releases the 9.15 Suite of the Versatrans Transportation Management Solution"