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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 Insight.

Start with savings or operational health, then explore the trends, risks, opportunities, and scenarios shaping your transportation operation.

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Financial Impact dashboard: savings identified, hard savings versus cost avoidance, opportunity pipeline, and scenario builder

What Maximizer Makes Visible

Savings, service, capacity, and readiness in one operating picture.

$2.79M
Identified, Annual
$1.63M Hard Savings $1.17M Cost Avoidance
Utilization Bell Schedules Fleet

Hidden Savings

Identify savings opportunities across utilization, bell schedules, fleet needs, and service design.

61 OF 100
▼ Slipping · 7-Day Trend
Service↓
Safety→
Utilization↓
Readiness↓

Operational Drift

See when service, safety, utilization, or readiness starts slipping before it becomes a bigger problem.

Reduce Afternoon Deadhead
Value
$71,586
Risk
Low
Confidence
High
Affected
14 Routes
Next Step: Transportation Review

Decision-Ready Opportunities

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

Set Goal 5% Budget Cut
Model Options 4 Scenarios
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 $1.52M
Approved $890K
Implemented $445K
Captured $379K

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.

Select Data Sources
Connect one source or many.
Start with what you have.
Routing GPS & Telematics Ridership / RFID Bell Schedules Fleet Data Rates & Costs Spreadsheets Weather & Traffic
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What Maximizer Runs
District Rules Baseline Modeling Savings Logic Scenario Workflow Confidence Scoring Impact Tracking
What It Produces
Savings & Opportunities Operational Health Modeled Options Measurable Results

Start with a spreadsheet export or secure import. Add more connections when ready.

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

Found in the Data, Not the Map

A 2026 independent efficiency study estimated up to $18 million in annually recurring transportation savings at the Clark County School District. 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. The solution wasn't finding a better route, it was using existing data to maximize actual utilization.

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, 2025 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 ↗

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
HEALTH SCORE 82 ▲

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

Business Officials & CFOs

Budget & Cost Control
IDENTIFIED SAVINGS $2.79M

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

Transportation Teams

Operations & Service
REVIEW FIRST 3 Insights

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

School Boards

Governance & Oversight
PROGRESS On Track

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

Safety & Compliance

Student Wellbeing
RIDE TIME 51 / 60 min

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

Better decisions.
Better service.
Lower cost.

Each role sees what matters most, measured against the same goals.

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.

Pilot Without Student PII

Start with operational exports or selected feeds. No student PII required for pilot.

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.

Built on the past 20 years of work across public-sector transportation software, corporate finance, operational performance, telematics, and advanced data science. That foundation includes critical public agency transportation systems, complex operating data, business transformation, and initiatives tied to

more than $50M in savings and cost avoidance.

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 intelligence for district 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.

Does this cut driver jobs?

No. Most school districts are short drivers, not overstaffed. Savings come from miles, utilization, spare capacity, overtime, service design, and contracts rather than headcount. If a scenario affects staffing, Maximizer shows that clearly before anything moves forward.

How long does a pilot last?

A focused pilot is designed to run in 30 days after data handoff, and much of it can run on historical data you already have. The process is straightforward: collect available data, establish your baseline, identify opportunities, and review modeled findings.

Ready to See What Your Data Can Unlock?

Schedule a focused demo tailored to your district’s goals, systems, and data.

✓Works with your current systems.
✓See a full demo with synthetic data first.
✓Qualified districts can start with a no-cost pilot.

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