News & Events

(STN Podcast E113) Drivers Wanted: Focus on Workplace Culture, New Tech to Retain Talent School Transportation Nation podcast – Episode 113From School Transportation News / By Claudia Newton / May 24, 2022Get a tease of STN’s June issue, including an employee-focused approach to retaining talent. Additionally, our webinar series focuses on the essential technology and funding for fleet electrification as the EPA is set to open the Clean School Bus Program.It’s Tony x2 as Tony [...]

From The Daily Gazette / By John Cropley / April 14, 2022 SCHENECTADY — The vacant former Subway shop in downtown Schenectady is proposed for demolition and replacement with a five-story office building.The two-story building at 438 State St. that formerly housed the sandwich store was acquired by Anthony Civitella, the owner of Transfinder, who built the company headquarters next door at 440 State St. a decade ago.On April 20, Civco Realty Corporation will go before the Schenectady [...]

From WTKR.com / By Antoinette DelBel / Apr 01, 2022ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY, Va. - One local school district might have found a solution to the ongoing bus driver shortage facing schools around the country.Isle of Wight County Schools (IWCS) has been using a routing software called Transfinder to consolidate bus routes.IWCS has been using the software for the past couple of years, but this school year, it’s especially helped them out after the bus driver shortage at the school district hit an [...]

Dealing with driver shortage, pandemic challenges head on with... Routefinder PLUSFrom FADSS March Business Partner eNewsletter Nicole Havee is glad her district was a Routefinder PLUS early adopter. She and her router got COVID not long after getting the browser-based routing solution by Transfinder, which empowered them to route from their homes. And in the midst of the ongoing national school bus driver shortage, Routefinder PLUS’ Trip Absorption function helped the Okeechobee [...]

Growing Schenectady firm makes bus-route efficiency softwareFrom The Times UnionBy Rick KarlinJan. 25, 2022 / Updated: Jan. 26, 2022SCHENECTADY — For Transfinder Corp., which creates software to help schools efficiently manage their bus routes and has seen steady revenue growth for 24 years, 2021 was particularly busy.That’s because the pandemic, marked by a shortage of bus drivers and chaotic school schedules, has scrambled bus routes across North America, which is the [...]