Esri UK Local Government Special Interest Group 2016
Norfolk County Council: school transport commissioning for vulnerable childrenAlice Duff, Esri UK
• Large rural county
• £10 million annual spend on transport
• Looked for a GIS analysis approach to significant reduce this
Norfolk County Council
The Problem
The Problem
• Manual approach
• Text-based reports for each child
• Paper maps
• Relied on local knowledge
How it used to look
• Data Warehouse
• Categorised children into:- Best case scenario: Children sharing transport & attending nearest suitable school
- Children not sharing transport & attending nearest suitable school
- Children sharing transport & not attending nearest suitable school
- Worst case scenario: Children not sharing transport & not attending nearest suitable
school
• Build interactive application which would show current status for all schools
What did the GIS Team do?
What is the application?
•Met their savings target of £500,000!
•Improved wellbeing of pupils
How does it help?
•Adults with special needs
•School planning
Future Iterations
•Customer Success Award at Esri UK Annual Conference 2016
•Blogs
•ThinkGIS article
Press
Questions?