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CALCULATE SAFE WALKING DISTANCES
Fast Accurate
Eligibility Decisions
QPaths helps local authorities quickly assess the distance eligibility for home to school transport requests by identifying pupils’ shortest safe walking routes, closest school, and catchments.
Supporting safe journeys at every step
When you need to determine walking distances that account for unsafe paths:
QPaths automatically calculates walking distances that avoid paths you’ve flagged as unsafe
When you need to focus your attention where it’s really needed:
QPaths’ API instantly identifies open-and-shut cases so you can focus on the complex ones
When you need to respond to challenges and appeals with confidence:
QPaths provides clear, auditable results that support faster, evidence-based resolutions
Confident calls, clear communications
QPaths takes the stress out of assessing home-to-school eligibility. It automatically calculates automatic walking and driving distances using your defined safe routes so you can focus on the edge cases that really need your attention. With consistent, auditable results, you can stand by your decisions and explain them to parents, schools and colleagues, helping to resolve appeals faster and with less friction.
Case study
James Silvester of North Tyneside Council talks about how implementing QPaths for determining eligibility for home to school transport saved the council ‘huge amounts of time’ and money.
Optimise without compromise
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Save time
QRoutes saves you valuable time. It instantly generates optimised routes, considering factors like road conditions and passenger needs. Its speed and flexibility means you can quickly try things out (such as different vehicles or adjusted travel times) and its editing tools make it easy to adjust routes according to your local expertise.
Feel supported
Fast responses from our friendly team! We are expert in our software, of course, but we also understand the task at hand, and are here, ready to help you get the best results. We respond to 99% of support tickets within 2 hours.
We absolutely love how easy QPaths is to use. The accuracy and efficiency we have gained in assessing our applications has been invaluable. The team at QPaths are also incredible in the service and support they provide.
Charlotte Masterson-Cox
Eligibility Officer, School Transport Service Children’s Services
Hampshire County Council
How QPaths makes
life easier
- Easily calculate statutory walking distances
- Where appropriate also delivers driving distances
- Quickly check walking or driving distances to a preferred school or nearby schools
- Test hundreds of walking path distances in minutes.
- The calculation uses the most up-to-date mapping available from Ordnance Survey.
- Understand the impact of policy changes, for example, eligibility based on nearest v. catchment school
- Understand the return on investment from new infrastructure, such as crossings and street lighting.
- Easily view a list of the nearest appropriate schools
- Help parents find alternative options when schools are oversubscribed
- Clear and consistent information for rapid appeals resolution and decision auditing.
- Override transport eligibility decisions and record the reasons why (e.g., low income families) when necessary.
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