Kimberly Moore speaks with Carl Allen, CEO at 4Mativ about school transportation pre-COVID, during COVID and the return to in-person learning. Carl is President & COO of 4Mativ.  Carl previously served COO/CFO for the Harvest Network of Schools in Minneapolis and Boston Public School’s Director of Transportation. 

During COVID, schools are needing their services to do different things than what their services had done previously. We talk about how school districts  will need to rethink school transportation.  Part of 4Mativ's theory is that schools need school transportation departments and school districts need to be more variable cost organizations and be less beholden to a set of fixed costs that are over capacitated, or not fully utilized. 4Mativ works to minimize the reliance on fixed costs and try to help districts identify other variable or diverse options to better meet their flexible needs as well as simultaneously looking at their fixed assets and how do they best utilize them.