HopSkipDrive Saw 300% Increase in Rides during 2023-2024 School Year, Expands to Five New Markets for 2024-2025 School Year
2024年7月17日 - 11:00PM
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Technology company sees significant increase in
users, geographic footprint, and workforce ahead of upcoming school
year
HopSkipDrive, a technology company partnering with school
districts across the country to solve complex transportation
challenges, today announced it is expanding to five new cities this
Fall, partnering with dozens of new clients in Bakersfield,
California; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
Richmond, Virginia; and Tucson, Arizona. This growth in geographic
reach comes as the company caps a 2023-2024 school year with
significant growth:
- From the beginning of the school year to the end, HopSkipDrive
saw a more than 300% increase in rides across its
marketplace, as it helped arrange transportation for students
around the country. These rides were fulfilled by a network of
local caregivers, called CareDrivers. Throughout the school year,
the community of active CareDrivers doubled as increasing
numbers of parents, grandparents, babysitters, and others came to
HopSkipDrive for opportunities to earn income and support their
communities.
- The company grew its client base more than 50% through
the 2023-2024 school year, and today works with the majority of
school districts in cities where HopSkipDrive operates. Today,
over 10,000 schools in 600+ school districts across the
country have been supported with HopSkipDrive rides across thirteen
states and dozens of major cities.
- HopSkipDrive also responded to widespread interest in RouteWise
AI™, the company’s AI-based school transportation routing
optimization tool. At the end of the 2023-2024 school year, over
twenty school districts around the country leveraged insights
from the proprietary software to solve issues like bus driver
shortages, sustainability mandates, school policy changes, and
more. One district in Colorado that used RouteWise AI was able to
reduce their capital budget by 40% over 10 years by increasing
vehicle utilization, right-sizing their fleet, and utilizing more
efficient routes.
- Over the course of the school year, the company has
increased its employee base by over 30%, hiring additional
team members across Engineering, Product, Data Science and Business
Intelligence, Support and Safety, Sales, Public Policy, and many
more to power the company’s growth and market demand for its
offerings.
“Our work over the last few years has fueled our exponential
growth across various areas,” said Joanna McFarland, Co-Founder and
CEO of HopSkipDrive. “We’ve powered millions of safe, reliable
rides for kids to tens of thousands of schools, extracurricular
activities, support services, and more. We’re proud to fill a need
for our school district partners as we supplement school bus
transportation options and also bring forward innovative,
AI-powered software to solve the biggest challenges they face. We
expect 2024 will be our biggest back-to-school yet, and we’re
excited to continue our momentum.”
About HopSkipDrive
HopSkipDrive is a technology company that solves complex
transportation challenges where there is a heightened need for
safety, equity, and care. HopSkipDrive is modernizing the $30
billion school transportation industry in two ways: HopSkipDrive’s
marketplace arranges care-centered transportation to supplement
school buses and existing transportation options by connecting kids
to highly-vetted caregivers on wheels, such as grandparents,
babysitters, and nurses. HopSkipDrive also builds software and
offers advisory services that solve the biggest transportation
challenges facing schools and school districts around the country,
including budget cuts, bus driver shortages, and reaching climate
goals. HopSkipDrive currently partners with school districts across
13 states, supporting more than 10,000 schools. More than three
million rides over 61 million miles have been completed through
HopSkipDrive since the company was founded in 2014 by three working
mothers.
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