Getting Started
All Clear
When you’ve completed the route and checked the bus to ensure no students remain in the seats click “All Clear” on the CoPilot home screen to clear the bus and reset the CoPilot to it’s beginning stage. Then you can start a new route! This is ...
Ridership Tracking at Stops
Ridership Tracking Basics Once the Stops screen pops up, students can be tapped on and off the bus. How this is done is up to your school district. Many districts have students scan on with a bus pass. This can be an RFID card or fob, or a card or ...
Directions and Stops
Directions will appear on your CoPilot, like the screenshot below: Directions are on the left-hand side of the screen. The stops are highlighted green while the driving directions are highlighted white. The scheduled stop times are listed below the ...
Beginning Your Route
To begin a route, tap on the tile “Select a route”. At the top of the route selection screen, you will see 3 tabs: Scheduled. This tab will display routes assigned to the bus you are on with a schedule set up for a specific day. ("Test Bus" in the ...
Driver Clock-In and Clock-Out
After starting the bus, while on the home screen of the CoPilot, the driver must tap their bus pass on the RFID reader (much like a student would with ridership). There are multiple ways to confirm the driver’s swipe was accepted: A small black box ...
Home Screen
This is your home screen for your copilot. From this page, you can choose between beginning your routes, selecting “All Clear” to ensure the bus is marked as “empty”, filling out checklists, and checking out the diagnostics of the CoPilot. Which ...
Copilot Startup
When the copilot is turned on, you will first see the startup screen with the Transportant logo: After a moment, the screen will inform you that routes and students are being downloaded: This screen can take about 5-10 minutes to load depending on ...
Introduction to the Copilot
The copilot is the touchscreen tablet that is hard-mounted on the bus. This is where drivers will do pre- and post-checklists, run routes, track which students are onboard, and send an alert about any incidents to the dashboard. Here in the knowledge ...