Surabaya city is not yet have a school bus system.
With a numerous needy student, the government is realized that
free school bus can support the needy student in their
transportation cost. The purpose of this research is make a
model that can be used by the government to designs the most
optimal route and optimal distribution of the free school bus.
This paper is focusing on the conceptual framework of the
processes in finding the optimal route and analyzing the chosen
route. The optimal route is a route that covers the area with the
most number of potential passengers, the needy student. The
needy density layer is the primary data that will accompanied
with street layer, school layer, and bus depot layer. Not just
finding the route, the chosen route then used in an accessibility
analyst in order to find its effect of the school bus in existing
transportation system. The result of this research indicates that
the model in this project can be used to find the best route and
can support the government in making a decision in the
limitation they have
