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Re:MIT team’s school-bus algorithm could save $5M and 1M bus... by throwaway2016a on Friday August 11, 2017 @11:17AM (#14990513)
Interestingly in this case it seems it was the government that initiated the search for cost savings:

> In hopes of spending less this year, the school system offered $15,000 in prize money in a contest that challenged competitors to reduce the number of buses.

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Re:MIT team’s school-bus algorithm could save $5M and 1M bus... by endersshadow on Friday August 11, 2017 @12:27PM (#14991472)
The way this typically works is that they were told from on high that their budget was getting cut, so they had to figure out a way to do so. Not sure if that happened here, or if these are just folks who are really interested in governing well, but that's been my experience.
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