Unit 5 working on bus tracking app

Posted on February 15, 2015

Parents of Unit 5 students will soon be able to track their child's bus. (Photo courtesy Flickr/flequi)

By Adam Studzinski

NORMAL – Unit 5 is working on a new app to help notify parents when their student's buses are late.

The app will allow parents to track the location of their child's bus to within three minutes of its location.

"We're trying to gather the communication pieces so it'll flow nicely to parents," said Daniel. "We've tried to communicate, if we do have late buses, via phone, but that has a delay time."

This would be a particular advantage for parents on snowy days when school isn't cancelled, but buses are running behind.

"Ideally, we'd like to even look (at) how can we can this from parents being able to see this to how can we get them text messages when our buses may be 15 minutes or later," Daniel said.

Daniel hoped to see the app launched by spring break.

Adam Studzinski can be reached at [email protected])

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