BUSCONTROL: sistema de monitoramento e controle de transporte escolar municipal

Abstract

School transportation is an essential service for ensuring students' access to and continuity in public education, especially in municipalities such as Picos, Piauí, Brazil, where manual and poorly digitized control methods still predominate. This study aimed to develop a web application for monitoring the municipal school transportation system in Picos, with functionalities for recording student boarding and alighting, aiming to optimize the control and organization of the service. The research was characterized as exploratory and descriptive, with a qualitative-quantitative approach, based on bibliographic research and field research. The BusControl system was developed as a progressive web application (PWA) with an offline-first architecture, allowing data registration even without internet connectivity — a feature motivated by the identification, during testing, of connectivity limitations faced by monitors along school bus routes. The system was evaluated with 10 school transportation monitors through the application of the System Usability Scale (SUS) questionnaire, obtaining an average score of 98.5 points, classified as "Excellent." The results indicate that the developed system presents high perceived usability among users, contributing to the reduction of manual registration failures and to the modernization of municipal school transportation management.