BusPlan vs Schooliy

BusPlan is a free, open-source tool for school districts that generates optimized routes from existing student, stop, and school-location data. It seeks to minimize bus driving time and can impose a maximum student ride-time constraint. The workflow accepts CSV files for locations, students, candidate stops, stop eligibility, and garage bus limits. Preparation instructions create candidate stops within one mile of each student and calculate walking-distance eligibility. OpenStreetMap extracts are used to build OpenTripPlanner routing graphs, which supply route costs. OptaPlanner provides the constraint-solving engine. Results are CSV files listing ordered stops for each route and assigning students to route-and-stop combinations. A script calculates student ride times, and a Jupyter notebook supports route analysis. BusPlan is distributed as source code and setup instructions on GitHub under the Apache License, Version 2.0. The repository does not list a packaged desktop or mobile download or a support service.

Schooliy is school bus tracking and transportation management software for schools, school groups, and bus operators. It assigns students to buses and plans routes using real road distances, capacity, distance, sibling, and gender rules. Administrators can view a live fleet map, while parents can check a bus’s location, current stop, and estimated arrival time. The parent app also offers pickup and drop-off notifications, bus-approaching alerts, absence reporting, and trip history. Drivers and escorts get daily tours, turn-by-turn navigation, student stop lists, attendance tools, and live GPS sharing. They can send school administrators a one-tap SOS with live location, with follow-up until closure. Boarding, drop-off, and absence events form a digital attendance record. The multi-school platform keeps each school’s data isolated. Student records can be imported from CSV or Excel, and Google Maps links can help resolve home locations. The dashboard and apps support Arabic with right-to-left layout and English. Schooliy is available on Android, iOS, and the web, with API access.