Effectiveness and Efficiencies in Pupil Transportation Safety

摘要

Safety-related problems associated with school buses and their operation include non-standard signals and markings on school buses; varying laws and operating procedures among the States; varying amount, quality and context of pupil instruction regarding safe practices in and around the school bus; driver errors; operating at unguarded rail crossings; operation under adverse weather conditions (e.g., dense fog in the morning; lack of driver and passenger restraint systems; and inadequate system support at the State level. Countermeasures applied to these problems include school bus driver selection and training, uniform identification of school buses, school bus stop laws, pupil instruction, and coordinated administration of a State pupil transportation safety program.