BusWhere lets parents and schools know where the bus is and when it will arrive at any stop. If your school has set up BusWhere, you can download the app now to use your iPhone or iPad to know where your kids are and get to the bus on time! NOTE: You must have a BusWhere account to use this app. Please confirm your school has set up BusWhere service before downloading. FEATURES FOR PARENTS & STUDENTS - See the bus move in real time as it drives the route, if your school's permissions allow - View up-to-the-minute ETAs at any stop on the route - Get an alert when the bus is a few minutes away FEATURES FOR SCHOOLS - Get a birds-eye view of every bus on your route - Receive an alert if the bus is running off schedule - View interactive daily logs with arrival and departure times for each stop
Relies too much on drivers actually ticking it off
It seems like to be effective, drivers have to initialize and check off each stop. This seems like it’d be a huge distraction and unsafe. It’s possible I’m wrong but we only see the map update that the bus is about to arrive…when it arrives.
Bus where
The bus app does not say where it is when it is on its way to the first bus stop
Helpful app
Seems to work well. Accurate enough to give my kids and me actionable intelligence on bus location (instead of operating in the dark).
The bus number hardly accurate
The bus number can change from day to day. We do not get notified. If a new number or alternative bus is used the tracking is not updated. My child for some reason is marked to be taking 4043 going towards the city when she goes to PHMS. The tracking doesn’t show daily! If at all. I launch the app daily and it is a hit or miss. Busses show up way late and the kids arrive late and yet no update provided. The whole system just need to be revised, reviewed and perhaps replaced with something more accurate and reliable.
Unreliable
When this app works it is incredibly helpful. The amount of times it lags or just doesn’t work is incredibly frustrating. When the regular bus driver is doing the bus run you get into the routine of things and the app is not as necessary. But when there is a substitute, being able to track where the bus is can mean the difference between 15-20 minutes. In one instance we were alerted that the bus was on its way 30 minutes before the normal alert time. Thankfully I could actually see that the bus was still at the bus lot on the map and didn’t have to rush my child out the door. Just this morning the app froze up again. I closed and reopened it several times. Then I got a message saying now I don’t have access.
Bad communication
I am not satisfied with the accuracy of the gps and lack of notification between the bus company when their going to be late
Takes too long to load
Waiting for GPS takes forever
Background technical improvements
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