Observed arrival · 2026-09-21
Raft, the bike-bus organizer
Raft helps families coordinate shared bike rides to school by collecting home pins, proposing a meeting point and quieter route, and assigning chaperone turns.
- For
- Families organizing shared rides to school
- Worth noticing
- The workflow combines shared home pins, quiet-street routing, departure timing, and rotating chaperone assignments.
Field notes
Raft structures a school bike bus around a shared link rather than an app download or account system. Families submit home locations, child counts, and the number of adult rides they need; the site describes a later pass that proposes a meeting point, a quiet-street route, and a departure time. Chaperone duty is treated as a scheduling problem, with gaps filled by fewest turns first and reminders sent the night before. Maps credit OpenStreetMap and BRouter.
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