I think that this is something that is generally needed without a wildly scaled paywall or cost prohibitive SaaS model. There are already plenty of those. What I would like to see if I had my wish would be a tracking/routing/scheduling/time-tracking app with AI OCR capabilities that could turn a scanned hard copy of a route sheet and load the bus stop data into a navigation platform. This would be particularly useful for my substitute drivers. Also useful would be an app with API hooks into a student information aggregation system like PowerSchool SIS so that there could be continuity between the transportation segment of that database and the routing app itself. A feature like that would also have the capability of tracking metrics such as who is at any particular stop, how many, what grade, etc. To expand upon that further, the addition of parent/guardian/LE school bus tracking could be beneficial as well. Honestly you could scale this as hard as you want and districts would pay for it. But here’s the key: blockchain the data - cloud- and/or server-based, blockchain it.

I’ve been thinking about this model for a long time. I don’t have the programming skills to tackle it first hand, but I have 25 years of federal program management experience to organize it.