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?