Data Analysis & Reporting Flashcards

A district spent $1,200,000 on transportation and carried 1,500 eligible riders. What is the annual cost per pupil transported?

Answer: $800

Cost per pupil equals total cost divided by riders: $1,200,000 / 1,500 = $800.

Which metric best normalizes accident data so fleets of different sizes can be compared fairly?

Answer: Accidents per million miles traveled

Rates per million miles adjust for exposure, allowing fair comparison across fleets.

Miles a bus travels without students aboard, such as from the yard to the first stop, are called what?

Answer: Deadhead miles

Deadhead miles are non-passenger miles that add cost without transporting students.

A supervisor finds that the median ride time is 22 minutes but the mean is 35 minutes. What does this most likely indicate?

Answer: A few very long rides are skewing the average upward

A mean much higher than the median signals right-skew from a small number of long outlier rides.

Which federal law governs the privacy of student information contained in transportation rosters and ridership reports?

Answer: FERPA

FERPA protects personally identifiable information in student education records, including transportation records.

Fleet capacity utilization is calculated by comparing which two figures?

Answer: Riders assigned vs. total seating capacity

Capacity utilization compares actual riders to available seats to show how efficiently buses are loaded.

Before presenting a year-over-year cost increase to the school board, what adjustment makes the comparison most meaningful?

Answer: Normalizing by miles or pupils transported

Normalizing by miles or riders separates true efficiency changes from changes in service volume.