Name: Putting EPA Funding to Work: How to Turn Grant Dollars into Successful Projects
Start: 2022-06-16T17:00:00Z
End: 2022-06-16T17:01:03.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

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Outdated school bus routing is silent sabotage of efficiency, leading to hundreds of hours of wasted processing time. Instead of addressing these aspects as a full-time job, dispatchers, route managers, and department staff can adapt and create new routes within minutes with updated mapping technology.

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The EPA clean school bus funding program is a great opportunity to jumpstart your fleet electrification program, but it’s not enough on its own. It takes planning and expertise to create successful projects. Once you have the money, how do you turn it into fully charged buses reliably transporting students every day?

Putting EPA Funding to Work: How to Turn Grant Dollars into Successful Projects

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