City of New York

Bus Breakdown and Delays

Name: Bus Breakdown and Delays
Creator: City of New York

Records track real-time incidents of breakdowns and delays affecting school buses operated by vendors for the City of New York. Each entry details the incident date and time, bus route, vendor, type of delay or breakdown, cause, location, and duration.

Example records

School Yeartemporal	Run Typeclassification	Bus Noidentifier	Route Numberregistration	Reasonclassification	Borogeographic	Bus Company Namelegal entity	Number Of Students On The Busquantity	Breakdown Or Running Latestatus	School Age Or Prekclassification
2015-2016	Special Ed AM Run	2621	J711	Heavy Traffic	New Jersey	RELIANT TRANS, INC. (B232)	11	Running Late	School-Age
2015-2016	Special Ed AM Run	1260	M351	Heavy Traffic	Manhattan	HOYT TRANSPORTATION CORP.	2	Running Late
2015-2016	Pre-K/EI	418	3	Heavy Traffic				Running Late	PreK

Use cases

Transportation Vendor Due Diligence

A procurement analyst at a school district or municipal authority evaluating a bus contractor checks the vendor's historical incident rate, breakdown frequency, and average delay duration before renewing or awarding a contract.

Bus Company NameBreakdown Or Running LateReasonHow Long DelayedSchool Year

Commercial Auto Insurance Underwriting

An underwriter pricing a fleet policy for a school bus operator pulls incident history to assess mechanical breakdown frequency and the number of students on board during incidents, which informs liability exposure and premium calculations.

Bus Company NameReasonNumber Of Students On The BusBreakdown Or Running LateRun Type

Fraud and Billing Anomaly Detection

A fintech platform auditing municipal transportation invoices flags vendors whose reported service hours conflict with a high volume of breakdown or late-running incidents, identifying potential overbilling or falsified completion records.

Bus Company NameBreakdown Or Running LateHow Long DelayedRoute NumberSchool Year