Developing an Environment for Cost Calculation of Rural School Transportation

摘要

The Transcolar Rural project comes with the purpose of improving the student transportation system within the countryside. The government of Brazilian state of Espirito Santo, through its secretary of state for education (SEDU). formed a partnership with the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) to use the Transcolar solution for managing its rural student transportation system. After concluding preliminary studies, data collection, database formatting and feeding, the optimization phase generates new routes with the given data. With the trips defined, the system calculates the cost and creates reports that summarize the entire process. The automatic procedure of cost calculation seeks to complete the developed intelligent transportation system towards its complete independency. The main objective of the whole Transcolar Rural project is to optimize the use of funds, reduce travel distances and standardize vehicles and procedures regarding public student transportation of rural areas.