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Educating Parents
about your carpool line procedures is one of the most important steps to a safe an efficient carpool lane. Educate regularly through website, texts, postcards, individual and group conversations.
Develop a School Carpool Lane Procedures Guide
for Enhanced Carpooling, including a map of your School’s carpool lane layout, to help parents understand the process of using our carpool services. Remember to include our “Air Quality Facts” printable for parents on the importance of reduced idling time and remind parents to turn off their engines while they wait.
Develop Staggered-Time Groups
to help with dismissal and congestion in the community. Review any metrics the School has that will be helpful in creating the groups.
Consider Creating a Carpool Express Lane
for parents who are carpooling with other families, creating ShortTerm Parking spaces, or the use of orange cones for good visual direction.
Design eye capturing carpool removable stickers
to identify moving through the lane.
Post your School’s Carpool Lane Visual
and procedure guidelines on your School’s website and in your parent handbook. Have it handy and ready for distribution on open house nights, front office and classroom if appropriate.
Hold a Carpool Session during your Back to School Night/Week or Open House
at the start of each School year or when any major changes occur to inform parents of CarpooltoSchool works and your School’s procedures for the carpool lane.
From the Blog
There Is No Single Attendance Problem
After a month of reading 80 chronic absenteeism headlines, Go Together CEO Kimberly Y. Moore on why the most useful question is which barriers are driving absence for which students.
The Bus Is Not Overhead. It’s an Attendance Investment.
Student transportation gets budgeted as overhead. It should be budgeted as an attendance investment. Why the bus belongs on the attendance line, not the cost of running the building.
It’s National Attendance Awareness Month. Let’s Talk About It.
A causal study from Michigan shows bus eligibility cuts chronic absence for economically disadvantaged students. Why attendance and transportation plans belong in the same room.
69% of Families Had Considered Carpooling. Only 10% Were Doing It.
A district widened its walk zone and cut after-school buses, then asked whether families would carpool. A free District Transportation Survey found 69% had considered it but only 10% were doing it. That gap is unmet demand.
It’s an Infrastructure Problem, Not Just a Staffing Shortage
A district can fill every bus driver vacancy and still face the same crisis next year. Why the shortage is an infrastructure problem, and how a multimodal transportation portfolio makes districts resilient.
Why Multimodal Transportation Is Becoming a Serious District Strategy
School districts are treating multimodal transportation as a serious strategy to expand capacity and manage driver shortages. Go Together’s Kimberly Y. Moore on why supplementing the yellow bus, not replacing it, is the shift that matters.