Transportation systems for schools have high utilization at peak times and no utilization at others.
The Gothamist reports "Real Seniors Take School Buses To Buy Fresh Food"
This has been a recurring issue for me for a couple of years now: how to use things like transportation systems more intelligently.
Other things to fix:
- Integrate scheduling for county-based transportation systems in Southern Illinois (now only 5 days a week, inter-county complexity in routes/fares/extra fees/etc.
- Examine more efficient utilization of transport (for example, to pick up or deliver food) and manage health and safety issues through "intelligent boxes"which have telltales regarding handling of foods. These could even have features to allow only a certified operator to open the box (e.g., with a little bluetooth app for the food person at either end).
- Design for multi-use (buses with removable seats, etc.)
Ok. Time to weatherstrip the front door.... chilly day here.
Oh yeah. Most of the code for this exists in open source, I'd wager. Google Apps work too.
