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how the utilisation of school buses can reduce the number of cars going back and forth from home to school, thereby helping to lower traffic congestion and emissions.
Robinson also stressed that the Yellow School Bus is the access to learning. “For many, the school day begins and ends when children get on and off the Yel- low School Bus. It is clear that learning does not stop until students say goodbye to their bus driver in the afternoon. It does not take thorough analysis to see that once your child boards the bus, they are more likely to get to class than when they travel by other methods. Taking the bus decreases truancy and increases the likelihood of children doing well in school. If half the battle is showing up, the Yellow School Bus is helping us win that battle.”
Dick Fischer, the Owner and President of Trans-Consult & “Father” of the U.S shared information about school bus route planning and bus stop set-up. Ac- cording to him, one should consider four factors before planning the bus route. These include the longest walking distance of the different ages of children from home to school, the longest distance that the children can tolerate from home to school as well as the longest time they can tolerate in the school bus and the minimum and the maximum number of students that each individual stops can service. He also talked about the best way to increase operational efficiency and route planning for multiple destinations.
Also speaking were Pete Meslin, the Director of Transportation Newport-Mesa Unified School District and Peter Lawrence, the Director of Transportation for Fairport Central School District.
Meslin’s topic was “Transportation Information Management: The US Example”. He talked about how transporters operate in the US and how to increase ef- ficiencies and reduce costs through the use of key performance indicators and metrics. He also touched on the sources of data, data management and how to use the data efficiently, as well as the new trends of emerging technologies.
In his talk on “Driver Safety and Training”, Lawrence discussed the new driver qualification, bus driver training and safety. In terms of safety, Lawrence ex- plained that the younger the children are, the more dangers they face. This is because of their unpredictable behaviour and the fact that they do not think that accidents are dangerous. In addition, they lack concentration, their vision is not as wide and as far as adults and they lack the ability to judge distances, speed and noise direction.
“Apart from appropriate loading, it is safer to get the students to fill up the middle seats of the school bus, as when accidents happen, the vehicle normally hits either the front or back of your
bus, ”Lawrence stressed.
There were also local speakers at the conference including Pro- fessor Tieming Zhang, Yang Liu of Yutong Bus who talked about “Intelligent School Bus Safety Controlling Systems Based on Vehicular Networking Technol- ogy” and a representative of Higer Bus who gave an “Intro- duction to Domestic School Bus Safety Equipment and the Ap- plication of Intelligent Operation Systems.
菲舍尔 (Dick Fischer)，Trans-Consult 的东主兼总裁，也是美国校车路线规划与 站点设置之父。据他指出，在确立校车路 线之前，应当考虑4大基本因素。这包括不 同年龄的学生步行到学校的最远距离、学 生所能承受的花在校车上的最长时间、学 生所能承受的从家到车站的最远距离，以 及单个校车车站所能服务的最多和最少的 学生人数。他也提到增加营运效率与多目 的地的路线规划。
Newport-Mesa学区运输总监梅斯林(Pete Meslin)和Fairport中央学区总监罗伦斯 (Peter Lawrence)也是其中的主讲人。
梅斯林的讲题是交通信息模式:美国模式。 他告诉与会者有关美国运输业者是如何运作 的，还有业者如何通过使用主要的关键绩效 指标和度量来提高效率和降低成本。他也谈 到了数据的来源、数据管理及如何有效地运 用数据，以及新技术的趋势。
在“司机安全与培训”中，罗伦斯(Peter Lawrence )分享了新司机的资质、校车 司机的训练与安全。在安全方面，他解释 说，越小的孩子所面对的危险也就越大。 这主要是因为他们的行为不可预知，而且 不认为交通事故对他们来说是危险的。此 外，他们的注意力不够集中，他们的视野 范围不像大人般广，不能准确地判断距 离、速度及声音的来源。
“除了正确的承载，让学生们坐在校车中 间的座位比较安全。因为一旦发生事故， 车子一般会撞向校车的前面或后面。”罗 伦斯说。
在论坛的演讲嘉宾中，也有来自当地的张铁 明教授、讲题为“基于车联网技术的智能化 校车安全监管系统”的宇通客车校车安芯项 目经理刘杨、还有来自海格客车的代表和与 会者分享“国内校车安全配置介绍及校车智 慧运营系统在公益监督中的运用”。
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