OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE COORDINATION OF GENERAL PUBLIC TRANSIT AND SCHOOL BUS TRANSPORTATION

This report provides the findings from an analysis of the use of public transit buses instead of the traditional yellow school buses to transport students for the home-to-school and the return trip. The analysis was composed of three sections. First, a determination of the potential benefits by means of cases studies and a review of literature that may result from an educational agency and public transit system arrangement for transportation of students on public transit vehicles. Second, included is an identification of the real and perceived barriers and challenges as well as the innovative strategies of means of the lessons learned and specific actions that both cultivate and inhibit the use of public transit to transport students for the school trip. Third, determine, if possible, what types of coordination may be the most beneficial in a variety of environmental and institutional contents.

• Corporate Authors:

  National Center for Transit Research

  Center for Urban Transportation Research, University of South Florida
  4202 East Fowler Avenue, CUT 100
  Tampa, FL  United States  33620

  Research and Special Programs Administration

  Technology Sharing Office, 400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Baltes, M R
• Publication Date: 2001-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 138 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Coordination; Public transit; Safety; School buses; Students
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00922657
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 96-230-04
• Contract Numbers: DTRS93-G-0019
• Files: UTC, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 30 2002 12:00AM