Reducing supplier costs at the London Borough of Bexley

One of the most obvious ways to increase efficiency within local government is to reduce costs, particularly the costs of services provided by third party contractors. For example, using a school transport application from Trapeze, the London Borough of Bexley was able to dramatically reduce the costs of its school transport provision. This was because when the Borough re-tendered the taxi service, it could identify precisely the resource required to transport pupils from home to school and back again.

The ESRI GIS element of the Trapeze application helped the London Borough of Bexley plan each route and calculate the mileage by using the home and school addresses of each pupil who required taxis. Clearly, this would change throughout the year as pupils moved, but it meant that the Borough could allocate runs to the most cost efficient taxi provider.