A Seat Is a Child, and Both Are Counted
The transport list and the fee list stop being two sheets. A child mapped to a stop holds a seat on a bus, and that seat is what the term fee is raised against.
What the mapping decides
Small record, long shadow. Almost everything else on the system comes off it.
Stop and bus
Where the child is picked up and which vehicle picks them up. The attendant’s list for that stop is built from this.
Which trips
Morning, evening or both. A child who goes home with a grandmother three days a week is mapped for the morning only.
Parents’ numbers
On the same record, so a not-boarded message goes to a number the office holds rather than one the attendant remembers.
Seats free
Taken against capacity for every bus. Somebody asking in August whether there is room gets a real answer.
Mid-term changes, which is most of them
A family moves in November and wants a different stop from Monday. The front office changes the mapping, the seat counts on both buses move, and the fee follows the slab of the new stop. The attendant sees the change on her trip list the next morning without anyone ringing her about it.
The judgement stays with your in-charge
Whether a five-year-old should walk to that stop, whether a bus can take one more on a hill road, whether two siblings must travel together. None of that is a rule the software applies. It counts seats and holds the list. Your transport in-charge decides who goes where, the way she always has.
Frequently asked questions
Can a child use a different stop in the evening?
Mapping is per trip, so the morning and evening can differ. Schools with children going to a grandparent’s house in the evening need exactly this.
What about a new admission joining in December?
The front office maps them to a stop and a bus, and the term fee is raised from that point by the slab. They appear on the attendant’s list the next morning.
Where do parent numbers come from?
From the transport record, loaded with the student list before the term starts. Checking those numbers is the dull job that decides whether the messages are worth anything.
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