PRODUCT
VANTAGE
Don’t just plan routes; architect your entire network. Vantage is the ‘big picture planner’ that syncs thousands of students across your entire region, to find the millions in savings school-by-school planning misses.
How does Vantage
work?
While QRoutes delivers £100,000s in documented savings at the single-school level, Vantage scales that intelligence across your entire authority. By shifting to multi-school planning, annual savings can run into millions. Vantage enables transport planners to model a fully integrated network across their region, taking into account school start times, SEND accommodations, max ride times and more, to create one seamless transport network.
Case study
Hertfordshire County Council: 25% fleet reduction
Through Vantage, Hertfordshire reduced routes from 249 to 186 and cut the costs of transport within the project review by 31%, while creating a more inclusive transport network.
Dashboard
Vantage’s analytical capability allows you to spot trends and patterns. The simple visual interface helps identify problems and issues with current operations and provides insights for cost tracking, and contract management. It’s an invaluable tool for SEND transport coordinators, service directors, and authorities who want to identify cost leakage, and keep a close eye on route efficiency, operator costs and service levels.
Schedule All
Traditional planning happens in silos – one school at a time. Vantage breaks those walls down. It analyses your entire cohort simultaneously to find multi-school efficiencies, like a vehicle dropping at School A and immediately picking up for School B, or mixing students from different sites on a single high-capacity vehicle.
Roadworks insights
Stay ahead of delays with Vantage’s intelligent roadworks integration. Receive automated email alerts when upcoming works affect your routes, enabling proactive stakeholder communication. Vantage also helps you identify and navigate restricted zones – such as School Streets and Low Emission Zones – ensuring your fleet stays compliant while still allowing for essential passenger drop-offs.
How Vantage helps
you go further
Vantage helps you reduce single-occupancy taxis by intelligently grouping passengers across schools where appropriate, revealing cost-saving opportunities through analysing data at scale. With SEN-specific constraints designed for home-to-school transport, it delivers quick, reliable results that your team can act on with confidence.
Senior management wants to cut spend, but unrealistic targets don’t help anyone. Vantage highlights the scale of opportunities and helps teams prioritise their effort, while being able to clearly communicate the rationale to stakeholders.
Vantage’s dashboard gives insights into the relationship between your transportation costs, mileage, and vehicle occupancy. Quickly spot where costs are out of kilter and have the information you need to address anomalies with suppliers.
Evidence-based fleet procurement. Move from ‘common sense’ to ‘data-backed business cases’ when deciding between taxis, minibuses, or specialised vehicles. By processing your transport demand for different fleets, you can compare the operational costs compared to the capital.
Latest insights
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Resilient Networks, Defensible Budgets is a practical guide for senior leaders on building a school transport service that’s more inclusive, more resilient and significantly more cost-effective
QRoutes joins G‑Cloud 15
QRoutes has been appointed to the UK Government’s G‑Cloud 15 framework, allowing public‑sector organisations to use the platform to procure its cloud‑based SaaS solutions – QRoutes Pro, QRoutes Vantage, and QPaths.
Will the new PM save school transport? A look at Andy Burnham's agenda
There’s plenty in the new PM’s agenda that touches home-to-school transport, but most of it either lands years from now or doesn’t help with the thing councils are actually struggling with: the £2.32 billion spent on school transport in 2023-24. Here’s a run through of the key points on his transport agenda.