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School bus routes are expensive and hard to plan. We calculated a better way

  • Written by Ali Haghani, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland
imageGot to get to school on time.Cropped from deanhochman/flickr, CC BY

Here’s a math problem even the brightest school districts struggle to solve: getting hordes of elementary, middle and high school students onto buses and to school on time every day.

Transporting all of these pupils presents a large and complex problem. Some school districts...

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