Intuitive Software Systems Offer Ease of Use and Flexibility
With Transfinder® Pro, you stay in control.

Utilizing the advanced Geographic Information System (GIS) and database technologies of MapInfo^® and Microsoft^®, Transfinder developed Transfinder^® Pro... the state of the art geographic information system designed for student and special needs transportation management and planning.  Since its initial release in 1990, Transfinder^® Pro has proven to be a powerful cost effective planning and management tool. Transfinder^® Pro lets you visualize data related to students, routes, drivers, and vehicles on detailed county-wide street-level maps to create routes, driving directions, and daily schedules for pick-ups, drop-offs, vehicles and drivers.

Transfinder Pro Saves Time and Money
Transfinder^® Pro enables you to create routes and schedules in a fraction of the time usually required.  By speeding up the process of creating new routes and schedules, Transfinder^® Pro lets you use the extra time to develop and evaluate "what if" scenarios based on criteria you set.   For example, if you were developing transportation routing for a school district, you might vary parameters such as loading capacity, total miles traveled or the sequence of stops to help ensure that you are utilizing the most efficient routes and scheduling.

Transfinder^® Pro allows you to analyze bus routes and pickup sites, and enables you to determine the impact of implementing changes to routes, schedules, and boundaries.   The flexibility and versatility of the Transfinder software system (available in Windows 95, 98, NT and 2000 versions) provides the following benefits:

• Improved Routing Efficiency

• Lower Transportation Operating Expenses

• Increased Productivity

• Enhanced Level of Service

• Track and Manage Field Trips

Improved Routing Efficiency Reduces Operating Costs
By maximizing routing efficiency, you’ll optimize use of your fleet and reduce fuel consumption, vehicle wear and repair costs.  With Transfinder^® Pro you can visualize the data on county-wide street-level maps as you create routes and formulate schedules and plans.  You can instantly retrieve data on any map segment or point, allowing quick access to the data needed to do typical tasks such as adjusting routes and responding to inquiries or emergency situations.  In addition to the dramatic time savings realized when creating routes and schedules with Transfinder^® Pro, you will have time to consider more than one routing option.   By varying factors affecting route efficiency (such as bus stop locations, routes, and trip schedules), you can respond quickly to required changes and consider the potential impact of proposed changes such as staggering school start times or varying walking distances.  Transfinder® Pro also helps to optimize the use of your existing fleet by enabling you to schedule your buses at or near capacity.  An action such as reducing the deadhead miles will significantly lower fuel consumption, vehicle wear-and-tear and repair costs.

Increased Productivity Raises Efficiency
Transfinder^® Pro’s comprehensive features and state of the art technologies provide many opportunities to save significant time and money.  To minimize data entry and maximize processing speed, Transfinder^® Pro’s data components are interlinked.  So once you have entered a particular set of data into the program either electronically or manually, you don't have to do it again. Updating information and making changes becomes a cinch.  With just a few key strokes or the click of a mouse, you can add new information to the database such as new students and routes, identify bus stops, edit routes, and assign substitute drivers.  In other words, Transfinder^® Pro’s related data components automatically update the various databases in the system.  This feature saves steps and eliminates many routine manual tasks such as updating records, filing changes and generating reports.

You can use the data on students, schools, buses, drivers and routes to generate notification letters, passenger lists, emergency reports, and other types of communications.  Transfinder^® Pro is capable of preparing local, state, and federal reports and can perform an automatic student rollover to the next grade at the close of a given school year.  Transfinder^® Pro generates a vast array of other reports which can be customized to meet your specific requirements.

More Planning Enhances Service Level
Along with facilitating transportation management, Transfinder® Pro gives you greater planning power and ability to increase the level of service you provide.

For example, if a school district changes to a multi-tiered trip system, it can reduce route times and correspondingly decrease the amount of time students are riding on a school bus, while maximizing fleet utilization.

Transfinder^® Pro is also beneficial in boundary planning, redistricting and forecasting.   Transfinder Pro helps to: evaluate the impacts of policy changes; predict future needs; and, complete boundary analyses faster than any other tool in the business.

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With Transfinder^® Pro’s quick implementation time, some users are up and running in as little as six to eight weeks.  Your savings begin accumulating right away.  And that translates into a quick payback on your investment.

A MapInfo authorized developer, Transfinder is committed to designing and developing easy to use, cost effective, interactive transportation management and planning software systems that work in the real world.  With a solid track record of customer service excellence, Transfinder professionals are recognized for providing outstanding training and ongoing telephone and electronic support.   Transfinder can interface Transfinder^® Pro with existing mainframe systems, share data with almost any database program, as well as customize Transfinder to meet the needs of your specific application.  Transfinder delivers a smooth ride down the road to saving vehicles, time and money.

If you’re looking for a route to greater savings and productivity without the potholes, bumps and obstacles that can lie ahead with mathematical or automatic systems, turn to Transfinder... the transportation management and planning tool that lets you integrate your personal knowledge and experience with the benefits of leading edge, computerized technologies.

Transfinder is an interactive, intuitive transportation routing, scheduling, and boundary planning software system designed to help you provide safe, efficient, cost effective transportation.