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Maximize Every Mile

Find savings hiding in plain sight.

Helping school districts turn the data they already have into
real cost savings opportunities they can see, validate, and act on.

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Maximum Visibility.

Dive into savings or transportation health, then explore the trends, risks, opportunities, and scenarios shaping your transportation operation.

Savings Dashboard
Health Dashboard
Savings dashboard: $3,776,948 in savings identified, savings by category, budget position, opportunity pipeline, implemented savings, and scenario builder
Operations Health dashboard: daily health score, student outcomes, key health factors, insights, and route health map

What Maximizer Makes Visible

Savings, safety, on-time, utilization, and efficiency in one operating picture.

$3.78M
Identified
$3.60M Recurring $176K One-Time
Contracts & Labor Bell Schedule +6 more

Hidden Savings

Identify savings across route efficiency, policy and eligibility, fleet sizing, bell schedules, and contracts. Every opportunity carries real cost savings you can adjust and model.

71 OF 100
▲ On-Time · 10-Day Trend
Driving Safety · 30%→
On-Time · 25%↑
Utilization · 25%↓
Route Efficiency · 20%↑

Operational Drift

See when driving safety, on-time, utilization, or route efficiency starts slipping. Scored on the runs that actually happened vs the plan, and weighted the way your district sets it.

Consolidate 9 Under-Filled Routes Into 5
Value
$228,497
Risk
Low
Confidence
High
Affected
9 Routes
Status: Approved · Implementing

Decision-Ready Opportunities

Turn findings into cases with value, risk, confidence, assumptions, affected areas, and next steps attached.

Set Goal 3% Budget Cut
Model Options 2 Opportunities
Compare Impact Cost, Service, Risk
Check Fit Rules, Feasibility

Scenario Modeling

Set a goal in dollars, percent, or service impact, then compare ways to reach it before anything is implemented.

Allowed Within district limits
Flagged Below spare fleet target
Blocked Exceeds max ride time
Ride Time Capacity Accessibility Bells

Custom District Guardrails

Apply district-defined ride-time limits, capacity rules, accessibility needs, and bell windows before recommendations move forward.

Identified $3.78M
Approved $1.02M
Implemented $340K
Realized $39K

Defensible Results

Track what was estimated, approved, implemented, and captured so savings can be explained clearly and defended.

How Maximizer Works

Maximizer sits above the systems and data your district already has, using the sources you choose to create a clearer picture of the whole operation.

Data Sources and Types
Connect one source or many.
Start with what you have.
District Systems Routing Telematics Student Information Spreadsheets Also Captured Bell Schedules Fleet & Vehicles Rates & Costs Ridership Scans Connected For You Weather Traffic Road Network Diesel Prices
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What Maximizer Runs
District Rules Baseline Modeling Savings Logic Scenario Workflow Confidence Scoring Impact Tracking Posted-Limit Matching Feed Reconciliation
What It Produces
Savings & Opportunities Operational Insights Transportation Health Scores Analytics & Trends Modeled Options Board-Ready Reports Data Quality Findings Measurable Results

Start with a spreadsheet export or secure import. Add more connections when ready. Weather, traffic, road network and diesel benchmarks are already connected to Maximizer.

Advance Beyond Better Routes

Route Optimization
Shorter Path
Better Sequence
School bus with an optimized route path
Improves the route.
Bus IQ Maximizer
Find
Savings Hiding in Existing Data
Model
Options Before Changes Are Made
Maximized school bus with glow accents
Validate
Rules, Service, Capacity, and Risk
Capture
✓ Estimate
✓ Approved
✓ Realized
Maximizes the full operation.

Public Studies Show Savings Already Exist in the Data

Public audits and efficiency studies are already surfacing the same patterns: unused capacity, labor-hour opportunity, idling costs, and routes mismatched to actual utilization.

Up to $18M annual savings by 2030-31

Found in the Data, Not the Map

A 2026 independent efficiency study for the Clark County School District estimated transportation savings of $9 million a year after initial implementation, rising to up to $18 million by 2030-31. The district's cost per mile was already 17 percent below its peer average. The opportunity surfaced in the ridership data: across 199 sampled bus runs, 56 percent of available seats were in use, because service was planned for every eligible student rather than the students actually riding. The fix wasn't a better route. It was matching service to actual ridership.

Gibson Consulting Group study for Clark County School District, 2026 Read the study ↗
45-63% of seats filled

Measured by State Auditors

A May 2025 Ohio Auditor of State performance audit measured route-level utilization at Bedford City School District and found regular routes operating at 56.2%, 62.5%, and 45.1% of available capacity across three service tiers. From that data alone, auditors identified three routes per tier that could be eliminated while maintaining capacity. That is the kind of operational visibility districts need before transportation costs become budget pressure.

Ohio Auditor of State, Bedford City School District Performance Audit, May 2025, Recommendation 8, pp. 41–45 Read the audit ↗
~50,000 hours recoverable

Surfaced from Existing District Data

A national advisory firm analyzed more than two years of a large U.S. public school district's transportation cost and telematics data and identified approximately 50,000 driver hours as recoverable. The signal was already inside the district's operating data. It needed to be connected, measured, and translated into action.

Forvis Mazars FORsights, 2025 Read the analysis ↗
½ gallon per hour, per idling bus

Idling is a Known Cost

EPA guidance has long treated school bus idling as both an emissions issue and a budget issue. An idling bus can burn half a gallon or more of diesel per hour. For school districts, the question is no longer whether idling costs money. The question is whether the cost is visible by bus, route, yard, and trend.

U.S. EPA School Bus Idle Reduction guidance Read the guidance ↗
Cover of the white paper Transportation Savings Analytics
The Bus IQ White Paper

Transportation Savings Analytics

The studies above show the savings exist. This paper lays out the method for finding, pricing, and capturing them in a district’s own operating data.

Read the White Paper 8-page PDF

One Platform. Driving Better Decisions.

Transportation decisions cross budgets, service, safety, and governance. Maximizer gives each role the information they need from a single operating picture.

Superintendents

Strategic Leadership
District leader reviewing transportation numbers
HEALTH SCORE 71 ▲

See the health of the transportation operation and the tradeoffs behind major decisions.

Business Officials & CFOs

Budget & Cost Control
Business official working through cost data
IDENTIFIED SAVINGS $3.78M

Track savings opportunities, cost impact, and captured value in one view.

Transportation Teams

Operations & Service
Transportation staff at work
REVIEW FIRST 3 Insights

Spot service gaps, operational health, and which changes should be reviewed first.

School Boards

Governance & Oversight
School board meeting
PROGRESS 15% to Goal

Review plain-language summaries, assumptions, and progress against stated goals.

Safety & Compliance

Student Wellbeing
Safety officer reviewing transportation records
AVG RIDE TIME 18 / 60 min cap

Keep ride time, capacity, accessibility, and district rules visible before changes move forward.

See it.
Act on it.
Save it.

Don't leave savings parked.
Maximize them.

Built for District Trust

Security tested. Data scope controlled. Decisions stay with your team.

AICPA SOC for Service Organizations
SOC 2 Type II Certified

Independently audited security controls that protect customer data, secure our systems, and support reliable service.

Your Data Stays in the U.S.

Customer data never leaves U.S.-based environments.

No Student PII Required

Start with operational exports or selected feeds. No student PII required to validate value.

District Control Stays Intact

Maximizer surfaces opportunities and scenarios. Your team decides what moves forward.

Findings Stay Traceable

Inputs, assumptions, estimates, scenarios, and outcomes stay connected for review.

Missing Data Is Stated, Not Guessed

When a field is absent, Maximizer withholds the findings that depend on it and says which ones, rather than filling the gap with an assumption.

Questions School Districts Ask

Does it replace our routing software?

No. Maximizer works beside your routing, GPS, telematics, ridership, fleet, and cost systems. It turns those inputs into scores, insights, and scenarios you can act on.

Is this a bus tracking app?

No. Telematics can feed Maximizer, but the product is not a parent-facing live bus map. The output is operational and financial visibility to support better decisions.

What does a district need to start?

Start with the data you already have: routing, ridership, fleet, cost, bell schedule, or service data. Exports are enough to begin; API feeds can come later. Maximizer can also connect directly to sources like weather, traffic, and telematics, so those signals arrive without extra work from your team.

How are savings estimates calculated?

Estimates come from Bus IQ’s proprietary savings models, which cross-reference data your systems already produce but never connect: cost structure, utilization, service rules, and operating trends, all measured against your district’s own baseline. Every estimate shows the math behind it and is tracked from estimate to approved to captured value.

How does the 30-day value validation period work?

The first 30 days use your district’s existing data to establish a baseline, surface early savings opportunities, and confirm fit. There’s no cost and no system changes, and much of the work runs on historical data you already have. You see what Maximizer finds before deciding whether to move forward.

Ready to See What Your Data Can Unlock?

See how Maximizer finds savings in the data your district already has.

✓Works with your current systems.
✓See Maximizer in action before connecting any data.
✓Qualified districts start with a 30-day value validation. Savings proven first.

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