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Updated 1:18 PM GMT+8, August 13, 2023
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville schools will remain closed early next week to allow for more time to fix bus routes whose redesign left some children at home on the first school day this year and others getting home hours late.
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Optimal routing, shd get help from the AI people
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BY TRAVIS LOLLER, MATT O’BRIEN AND BRUCE SCHREINER
Updated 12:22 PM GMT+8, August 16, 2023
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The company behind a disastrous change to a Kentucky city’s school bus routes that resulted in more than a week of canceled classes had similar problems in two cities in neighboring Ohio last year.
Touting its connections to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, bus-routing vendor AlphaRoute pitched its mathematical models and machine-learning technology as a way of saving money and smoothing out complex bus routes in Louisville, Kentucky, and school districts across the U.S.
But real-world problems often got in the way.
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