The author reflects on personal experience as a student commuter, noting the fatigue from daily one-hour bus journeys. He emphasizes that long transit times significantly impact young people's wellbeing and energy levels after school.
The article advocates for two critical responsibilities:
RollCall data from August 2019 demonstrated the importance of this measurement approach, tracking over 785,000 journeys.
"The average time a student spent in transit on a RollCall equipped bus in August was 42 minutes."
The piece underscores how commute duration affects student productivity and rest, making data-driven route optimization essential for school bus network managers.
It comes up at almost every school visit. The answer is simpler than most people expect: three checks on every service, AM and PM, and fifteen to thirty minutes each morning to work through them.
Australia's first Children's Online Privacy Code must be registered by 10 December 2026. It is aimed at online services rather than schools - but it will reshape what your suppliers collect, what they switch on by default, and what they tell families.
The new Manage Parent Access feature gives schools greater control over who can access the RollCall Parent App - here is what the parent statuses mean and why the Enable step exists.
