ITRE News & Events
Sluder provides training at school transportation mini-conference
Bonnie Sluder
August 31, 2011
- Sluder provides training session at pupil transportation mini-conference
- Training offered to participants from eastern North Carolina
RALEIGH, NC — Bonnie Sluder, project leader for the Pupil Transportation Group at the Institute for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE) at North Carolina State University, conducted a training session on August 3 at the North Carolina Pupil Transportation Association District 9 Transportation 2011 Summer Mini-Conference held in Craven County.
Sluder works with the Transportation Information Management System (TIMS) which is part of the Pupil Transportation Group. TIMS provides support and consulting to the computer-assisted school bus routing and scheduling system used in secondary school systems in North Carolina.
Craven County Transportation Services hosted representatives from nine counties in eastern North Carolina. The mini-conference included sessions attended by participants involved in all aspects of school bus transportation services, including bus routing using TIMS.
During her session, Sluder briefed participants on recent updates to the software and focused on new processes that had been implemented. To assist participants with the upcoming reporting period, she presented a demonstration of the reporting process and showed the group how it can be integrated with Microsoft Office to create customized reports and presentations.
As a new school year gets underway, this training provides both management and operators the opportunity to understand the capabilities of the program and to use it to its fullest potential; thus improving the efficiency of bus routing and scheduling.
The Institute for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE), administered by North Carolina State University, is a non-profit organization that conducts research, education, and technical assistance projects on a wide variety of surface transportation issues with the goals of solving problems and creating new products, better services and smarter workers. ITRE is located on NCSU’s Centennial Campus.
