How to build an on-demand SEN transport service

Ninety-four percent of UK councils report their expenditure on transporting students with special needs to school is ‘unsustainable' or 'difficult.'

Many councils serve these trips with expensive taxis or other private hire vehicles and find themselves restricting the number of mainstream students eligible for free transport to compensate for these losses, while others have resorted to restricting SEN transport itself.

One new solution — digital demand-response transport — championed by leading transport technology provider Via, promises to address the dual challenges of rising demand and rising costs. Read on to learn how.