Transportation Routing Technician

Performs a wide variety of moderately specialized, complex operational, technical and administrative, and logistical tasks duties in support of transportation programs routing and planning activities; conducts assigned area-wide transportation technical reporting duties; maintains data in computer assisted routing software.

This job operates in a professional office environment and has a noise level of mostly low to moderate. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines.

• Experience as a bus driver or attendant.
• Knowledge of computerized transportation routing systems.
• Knowledge of school transportation.

1. Plans and develops school bus routes, bus stop sequence, and schedules that are safe, dependable, and efficient within the framework of a predetermined routing and scheduling calendar.
2. Determines student eligibility for transportation and assigns students to bus routes and stops utilizing computerized transportation routing systems; adjusts boundaries as needed.
3. Verifies and maintains data in the computer assisted routing software to include routes, equipment, and student information including changes, transfers, and transportation needs.
4. Periodically audits the planned routes to ensure optimization.
5. Provides ""what-if"" scenarios, multiple solutions, and recommends best option related to such scenarios as change of a program from one school or center to another, change in bell schedules, emergency routing, and boundary changes.
6. Makes route recommendations to provide maximum and efficient utilization of buses, route length, traffic pattern variability, street closures, and ride times.
7. Revises bus routes and/or adds buses to routes to accommodate new programs, bell schedules, and/or changes in student addresses, transfers, withdrawals, or new enrollments.
8. Plans transportation routing for out-of-boundary students.
9. Creates crisis routes to support Fairfax County, as needed.
10. Assists with transportation planning for shuttle programs, School-Age Child Care (SACC), RecPac, field trips, and summer school programs.
11. Gathers, tabulates, and categorizes data for reports concerning route timing, load counts, late runs.
12. Generates statistical information for state-mandated reports, quarterly and annually.
13. Attends and participates in various divisionwide transportation-related meetings.
14. Delivers informational training to transportation staff in routing and planning processes
15. Assists with the review and revision of procedural manuals.
16. Performs clerical support and dispatcher duties as backup for office operations, as required by operational necessity.
17. Performs related duties as required or assigned.