Vehicles
OPT maintains an inventory of all the vehicles used by contracted bus vendors in service to the Department of Education. The vehicles inventory can include school buses, ambulances or coach buses. This dataset details the active vehicle inventory for each bus vendor. There are a variety of different vehicles used to serve students requiring curb-to-curb service because an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) indicates specific transportation needs. The standard bus is the only vehicle used for general education students eligible for bus service but who do not have an IEP.
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Fresh
- Says it updates
- Monthly
- Actually updates about every
- 30.5 days
- Publisher last updated the data
- Oct 1, 2026
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- We last synced
- Oct 1, 2026, 6:31 AM
- Rows in our copy
- 1,342
- Rows at the source
- 1,342
- Our copy trails the source by
- under a minute
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| Source field | Display name | What the publisher says it is | Concept | Source type | Stored as | Stored type | Row identifier | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
school_year | School_Year | Indicates the school year the record refers to. The DOE school year starts in September every year. | Not bound | Text | school_year | text | — | |
vendor_name | Vendor_Name | Company name of the bus vendor. | Not bound | Text | vendor_name | text | — | |
active_vehicles | Active_Vehicles | The total number of active vehicles for each vendor and vehicle type category. This number includes spare and substitute buses. | Not bound | Number | active_vehicles | numeric | — | |
vehicle_typedescription | Vehicle_TypeDescription | Type of vehicle each bus vendor has under contract with DOE. The categories are: • Type A or B Flex Vehicle - A school bus with hydraulic lift and a minimum seating capacity of six wheelchair positions. Some or all of these wheelchair positions can be outfitted with seats for non-wheelchair passengers. Each vehicle is designed so that the driver and attendant can assist a student in a wheelchair in and out of the vehicle using the hydraulic lift. Each vehicle must be equipped with tie-down passive restraint devices to anchor each wheelchair securely to the vehicle. • Ambulance Transportation Service - A vehicle with a maximum capacity of one passenger to and from school requiring either advanced life support (ALS) or basic life support (BLS). Services require a minimum two Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) for BLS or a Paramedic and an EMT for ALS. • Non-Wheelchair Accessible Alternative (NWC) - A vehicle with a maximum passenger seating capacity of three passengers, excluding the driver and attendant. Each passenger is capable of entering, and exiting the vehicle on their own. • Wheelchair Accessible Alternative (WC) - A vehicle with capacity for two non-ambulatory and two ambulatory passengers. Each vehicle is designed so that the driver and attendant can assist a student in a wheelchair in and out of the vehicle, using a hydraulic lift. Each vehicle must be equipped with tie-down passive restraint devices to anchor each wheelchair securely to the vehicle. • Motor Coach Bus - A vehicle with a capacity of 49-55 passengers. Each vehicle must be equipped with a restroom. These vehicles are typically used for school trips only. • Type C or D Flex -A school bus with minimum capacity of ten wheelchair positions and a maximum capacity of thirty-five seated passenger. Each vehicle is designed so that the driver and attendant can assist a student in a wheelchair in and out of the vehicle using a hydraulic lift. Each vehicle must be equipped with tie-down passive restraint devices to anchor each wheelchair securely to the vehicle. • Hydraulic Lift - A school bus with a seating capacity of eight students with wheelchairs and eight ambulatory passengers (excluding the driver and attendant). Each vehicle is designed so that the driver and attendant can assist a student in a wheelchair in and out of the vehicle, using a hydraulic lift. Each vehicle must be equipped with tie-down passive restraint devices to anchor each wheelchair securely to the vehicle. • Mini-Wagon - A school bus with a minimum total seating capacity of fifteen passengers excluding the driver and attendant. Each passenger is capable of entering and exiting the vehicle on their own. • Ramp-Wagon - A school bus with a registered, minimum total seating capacity of four non-ambulatory students with wheelchairs and four ambulatory passengers (excluding the driver and attendant). Each vehicle is designed so that a driver and attendant can assist a student in a wheelchair in and out of the vehicle using the ramp. Each vehicle must be equipped with tie-down passive restraint devices to anchor each wheelchair securely to the vehicle. • Standard Bus (SE) - A school bus with a minimum seating capacity of thirty-six special education students. These buses are equipped with entrance and exit doors on both sides of the vehicles for easy sidewalk access. • Standard Bus (GE) - A school bus with a minimum seating capacity of sixty students excluding the driver. Each passenger is capable of entering and exiting the vehicle on their own. This is the vehicle used to transport general education students and there is no attendant accompanying the driver on these buses. |
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- Source
- https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/28rh-vpvr
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- Content hash:
147aaf32a4c1583d70c2d9426751455b61c3d7075fd064f31d9d3da5066b2a0b - What we changed
- We did not change the data. We stored it as published.
- Publisher
- codenownyc
- We retrieved it
- Oct 1, 2026, 6:31 AM
Update history
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| Oct 1, 2026, 1:00 PM | full_replace | success | 1,342 | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.84 |
| Sep 1, 2026, 10:23 AM | full_replace | success | 1,342 | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.73 |
| Aug 5, 2026, 2:39 AM | full_replace | success | 1,342 | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.45 |
| Aug 2, 2026, 12:16 PM | full_replace | success | 1,342 | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.27 |