A GIS FOR BUS ROUTING SAVES MONEY, WORRY IN NORTH CAROLINA
Derek Graham · 1993
This article describes how the state of North Carolina has been implementing a network of Transportation Information Management Systems ( TIMS) at the local school district level to improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of route scheduling for school buses. TIMS is a computer-assisted program of optimized school bus routing and scheduling. It has four major components: a geocode, a transportation database, an optimization module, and a boundary planning module.