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Associated Press
02-07-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Edmonton Public Schools Selects Stock Transportation to Provide Trusted, Safe Student Transportation Through 2028
'We have a fantastic, collaborative relationship with Stock. We're looking forward to our continued collaboration in the coming years through our new service agreement.'— Geoff Holmes, Student Transportation Manager of Edmonton Public Schools EDMONTON, AB, CANADA, July 2, 2025 / / -- Stock Transportation will continue to serve the students at Edmonton Public Schools for the next three years through 2028. This partnership extension builds on a deep-rooted 14-year relationship and demonstrates the school's high level of satisfaction with the team's safe, exceptional service over the years. Stock began serving the Edmonton community back in 2011 where it initially ran 48 routes. Since then, as a result of the hard work and efforts of the team and the school's support and trust, Stock now runs a total of 181 routes. Additionally, Stock has proudly supported the Edmonton community in various ways through its Partners Beyond the Bus community outreach program. Examples include donating to food banks and donating school buses to the police and fire department for emergency training. Geoff Holmes, Student Transportation Manager of Edmonton Public Schools shared the following about the partnership extension, 'We have a fantastic, collaborative relationship with Stock. We're looking forward to our continued collaboration in the coming years through our new service agreement.' 'Since 2011, Stock Transportation and the Edmonton Public School Board have collaboratively, transparently, and successfully ensured the safe transportation of students to school and home every day,' said General Manager Christine Paquette, Stock Transportation. 'We value the partnership we've established and most importantly, appreciate being a part of the Edmonton Public School Community. We look forward to continuing to make an impact collectively over the next coming years.' -END- About Stock Transportation: For over 65 years, Stock Transportation has proudly been delivering safe, efficient, reliable student transportation services to passengers and procuring buses across Canada. Stock transports over 100,000 students daily, operates more than 2,200 school buses and employs 2,500 outstanding team members who provide exceptional service out of seven Customer Service Centres in both urban and rural areas throughout Ontario and Alberta. Anna Lam Stock Transportation +1 630-432-3985 email us here Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content 'as is' without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above.
National Post
26-06-2025
- Automotive
- National Post
Special Transportation Provider ADROIT Taps Motive to Strengthen Student Safety and Support Drivers Behind the Wheel
Article content ADROIT plans to deploy Motive across the country to deliver more protection for students, drivers, and school districts Article content SAN FRANCISCO — ADROIT Advanced Technologies, a leading alternative student transportation company, today celebrated a new partnership with Motive, the AI-powered Integrated Operations Platform. ADROIT partners with school districts to provide accessible transportation for special needs students who require accommodations or live outside standard bus routes. Now, through this partnership, ADROIT will equip its vehicles with Motive's industry-leading AI-powered fleet safety cameras, strengthening visibility, accountability, and protection for special needs students, drivers, and school districts. Article content Article content The partnership follows a successful three-month pilot program of Motive and other leading competitors' AI dashcams in Massachusetts and Arizona to ensure ADROIT was selecting the most accurate and effective safety solution. ADROIT selected Motive for its real-time safety alerts, on-demand trip footage, and 24/7 support, all key capabilities and services for providing more visibility into vehicle activity and meeting school district requirements. Article content ADROIT is now expanding the availability of Motive's Vehicle Gateways and AI Dashcams to support all customers nationwide. Motive will help ADROIT meet operational and compliance standards while improving communication, reducing accidents, and giving parents and schools greater peace of mind. Article content 'Safety is at the heart of our commitment to the education communities we serve,' said Ryan King, Vice President of Operations for ADROIT. 'We're proud to announce our new partnership with Motive to offer AI-powered fleet safety cameras and vehicle reporting to provide more transparency to families, drivers, and school districts. The platform is designed not only to support our drivers and passengers today, but well into the future.' Article content 'Creating safer roads for students and drivers with accurate AI is one of the most meaningful ways we can make an impact with Motive,' said Abhishek Gupta, Senior Vice President of Product Management at Motive. 'We're proud to support ADROIT's goal of modernizing student transportation with smarter technology that reduces risk and enhances the safety, productivity, and impact of their operations.' Article content ADROIT supplements schools' existing fleets by conducting comprehensive background checks and requiring certified, wheelchair-accessible vehicles. To date, ADROIT has safely transported students more than 3 million miles. Article content About ADROIT Advanced Technologies: Article content ADROIT Advanced Technologies, part of the Beacon Mobility family, was founded in 2017 on the premise that school transportation needs to be as varied and unique as the students and districts it serves. For five years, ADROIT has successfully complemented school transportation in communities in California and Arizona with recent expansion into Wisconsin, Missouri, and Texas. Their unique model of ensuring their carefully vetted drivers are partnered with children based on their unique needs and IEPs ensures a transportation solution that perfectly serves parents, children, school districts, and communities. To learn more, visit: Article content . To learn more about Beacon Mobility, visit: Article content About Motive: Article content Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time, safety, operations, and finance teams can manage their workers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet-related spend in a single system. Motive serves more than Article content construction Article content , Article content energy Article content , Article content field service Article content , manufacturing, Article content agriculture Article content , Article content food and beverage Article content , retail, waste services, and the Article content public sector Article content . Visit Article content Article content to learn more. Article content Article content Article content Article content View source version on Article content Article content Contacts Article content
CTV News
25-06-2025
- Business
- CTV News
Timmins area school boards aim to save money with new transportation consortium
Four school boards in northeastern Ontario that serve Timmins and area are partnering to create a new student transportation consortium. Four school boards in northeastern Ontario that serve Timmins and its surrounding region are partnering to create a new student transportation consortium. Officials said it's been difficult to hire enough school bus drivers since the COVID-19 pandemic and it's one of the reasons why they need to work together. Timmins school boards A new student transportation consortium to serve Timmins and area will launch in September 2026. (File) 'Some of our areas have been significantly impacted and so we know by creating this efficiency of a brand new four-board consortium, that bus driver shortage may not be eliminated, but it will be reduced,' said Lesleigh Dye, director of education for District School Board Ontario North East. Dye said the partnership will save money. 'Our trustees have been adamant that they wanted a four-board consortium for a number of reasons, in large part fiscal responsibility,' she said. 'We are serving families in the exact same geographic location. Families have often said to us, 'I just saw a bus go by. It was half full. How come you're not partnering with the other district?'' Renegotiate contracts The change will happen in September 2026. 'We're still in a contract with our drivers, so we've got to finish off the year,' said Rene Gaudreau, director of communications for Conseil Scolaire Catholique des Grandes Rivieres. 'Then it's time to renegotiate contracts so that allows us, at that point, to get in with the consortium and negotiate together on the next couple of years.' Gaudreau said the consortium will also prioritize hiring bilingual drivers. 'It's definitely our goal,' he said. 'I mean, we'd love to have all bus drivers to be bilingual. If a bus driver is not bilingual, we're hoping to have a language monitor on the bus who can speak the language.' Dye said it's an enormous amount of work to plan routes for the geography the boards serve, and work will get underway in the spring. But, she added, it has been a dream come true for all boards to be working together.
Yahoo
20-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Cincinnati Public Schools to cut some yellow buses, place more middle schoolers on Metro
More than a thousand additional Cincinnati Public Schools students, most of whom are middle schoolers, will ride public transportation this year. The district's board of education approved moving the seventh- and eighth-grade students from yellow school buses to Cincinnati Metro during a recent business meeting. The cost-cutting measure comes as the district works this month to bridge a roughly $50 million budget gap between the current fiscal year and the upcoming one before the June 30 deadline. That gap was prompted by a decrease in government funds, and not, according to the district, due to overspending. The change impacts 1,260 students across 13 schools, the district's Chief Operating Officer Chris Burkhardt said, and will save the district almost $3 million per year. Most of Cincinnati Public Schools' high school students already ride Metro buses, as do some seventh and eighth-graders. Roughly 10,500 students rode Metro buses for school transportation last school year and roughly 2,800 of them were seventh and eighth graders. The board approved moving seventh and eighth-graders who attend grades seven to 12 schools to Metro busing last July. The decision to increase student ridership was made despite recent concerns about teen violence in Downtown and Oakley connected to students from Cincinnati Public Schools riding the Metro buses. A handful of high schoolers riding Metro were involved in brawls and an assault at bus stations in 2024. Metro and the district said they have been working to address safety concerns. School board member Ben Lindy said moving more students to Metro was a difficult decision. However, district officials said they meet regularly with Metro to address student safety concerns. "Given our experience these past few years and the work our transportation team has done," Lindy said, "I think this is a tough but right decision." This upcoming school year, students will ride Metro buses even if they attend a school that also serves younger grades, such as a K-12 school or one with kids from sixth through eighth grades. The switch also affects some high schoolers who were not assigned to ride Metro in the past. The following schools are impacted by the change: Academy of Multilingual Immersion Studies. Academy of World Languages. Hartwell School. LEAP Academy. Mt. Washington School. Oyler School. Pleasant Hill Academy. Roberts Academy. Roselawn Condon School. Sayler Park School. School for Creative and Performing Arts. South Avondale School. Spencer Center for Gifted and Exceptional Students. High schoolers at Sayler Park School and Spencer Center for Gifted and Exceptional Students will now ride Metro if they choose to use a bus system. The district said it anticipates saving about $2.9 million annually based on internal cost comparisons. Yellow bus service costs an average of $3,085 per student, while Metro costs approximately $364 per student. Students can choose which high school they want to attend, and with Metro, the district doesn't need to hire a yellow bus to take a small number of students to and from a specific school, Burkhardt said. Metro has pre-determined routes that can carry students across the city. Burkhardt said he meets weekly with Metro to discuss student safety and to determine if changes need to be made. One of the areas they've worked to address is Government Square. In January 2024, there were multiple high-profile attacks in Downtown, which police traced back to students who congregated at Government Square. Individuals from the district, Metro, Cincinnati police and the city of Cincinnati worked together to create a larger adult presence at the bus station. A group of community outreach specialists has been staffed at the stop, watching the students and passing out flyers for job opportunities and various programming since February 2024. Metro spokesperson Brandy Jones said the community ambassadors will continue to be at Government Square and the Northside Transit Center every day during the upcoming school year. The district said it also tries to ensure that only students who absolutely need to transfer through Government Square do so. "It takes a village," Burkhardt said. "It takes all of us working together to make sure that students not only are safe, but that they feel safe." Jones said Metro has several measures in place for the safety of all passengers. Metro buses and transit centers have cameras and security monitors. Metro also contracts with the Cincinnati Police Department to staff transit centers and to conduct random rides on routes. If students have any issues while riding, Jones said, they are encouraged to notify the bus operator, who will address the concern or call for assistance. "Historically, we rarely have any safety issues involving students riding with the general public," said Jones. Officials from the district and transit company said they are working together to help students who are new to riding Metro. Jones outlined the following reminders to help students adjust to public transportation: The bus service encourages parents to ride the route with their student prior to the first day of class. Parents can ride with their student to class free of charge during the first week of school. Metro staff members will attend orientation sessions at schools to answer questions and help parents identify the best route for their student. Parents can visit for answers to frequently asked questions. Jones said Metro has provided transportation to students for more than 50 years. "What we have found, year over year … is that students are pretty adaptable," she said, "and it's a pretty smooth travel experience to and from class." This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Cincinnati Public Schools places 1,200 more students on Metro buses
Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
EverDriven Expands AI Video Safety Partnership with Powerfleet to Enhance Student Transportation Across 34 States
WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., June 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Powerfleet (Nasdaq: AIOT), a global leader in AI-powered data intelligence, today announced an expanded deployment of its advanced AI video safety solution with EverDriven Technologies, a trusted leader in alternative student transportation across the United States. EverDriven operates across 34 states with 9,000+ drivers completing over 2 million trips annually. Due to the overwhelming interest from their school district partners, EverDriven will complete a major AI video safety deployment, scaling its relationship with Powerfleet to circa 4,000 subscribers. This initiative enhances driver safety, automated coaching, and real-time risk detection, reinforcing EverDriven's safety-first mission. "Our growing partnership with EverDriven highlights the increasing demand for Unity's AI-powered safety solutions in North America," said Steve Towe, CEO of Powerfleet. "We are proud to support EverDriven in delivering safer, more reliable mobility for students across the country. This collaboration further demonstrates the growth of our Unity safety solutions in our number one priority market." Powerfleet Unity's AI video technology leverages machine learning and computer vision to detect critical events, assess driving behavior, and provide real-time interventions. By identifying risks and enabling targeted coaching, it improves student safety and school district confidence. "At EverDriven, our primary mission is to ensure that every student has access to safe, reliable transportation to and from school," said Mitch Bowling, CEO of EverDriven. "Our exclusive partnership with Powerfleet and the implementation of AI video technology marks a significant advancement in our safety protocols. The AI-powered capabilities have already proven to enhance driver performance, provide peace of mind, and, most importantly, help ensure the well-being of the students we serve. With the growing adoption of this technology across districts, our decision to significantly expand deployment reflects our confidence in the benefits of AI video and our commitment to setting new standards in student transportation." For more information on Powerfleet's AI-driven Unity safety solutions, visit About Powerfleet Powerfleet (Nasdaq: AIOT) is a global leader in AI-powered data intelligence, optimizing mobile asset performance, safety, and sustainability. Powerfleet's award winning Unity SaaS solution portfolio integrates AI, machine learning, and IoT connectivity to provide mission-critical insights for industrial, logistics, and transportation sectors. With 48,000 customers across 120 countries, Powerfleet empowers businesses with data-driven intelligence to enhance operational efficiency, safety, and workforce productivity. Learn more at About EverDriven EverDriven is the trusted leader in alternative student transportation, dedicated to ensuring that the most vulnerable children in the U.S. have access to safe and reliable transportation. Operating across 34 states with a network of over 9,000 drivers completing more than 2 million trips annually, EverDriven partners with school districts nationwide to eliminate transportation barriers and support student success. For more information, visit Powerfleet Investor ContactsCarolyn Capaccio and Jody BurfeningAlliance Advisors IRAIOTIRTeam@ Powerfleet Media ContactJonathan +44 7921 242 892 View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Powerfleet
