The move is a response to growing demand for the bus supervisor service since the company started offering it to private schools last year.
As part of the transportation agency’s preparations for the 2015-16 school year, the initiative aims to accelerate preventive actions and solutions.
Officials say that Dubai’s school transport law and partnerships with international entities, including NAPT, have helped bolster the Emirate’s pupil transportation system.
The transportation provider will add the buses to schools’ fleets to meet growing demand. The total cost of the vehicles is about $17.8 million USD.
The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Education has extended for three years its agreement with Emirates Transport for transportation of students of the ministry’s government schools. The deal provides 2,113 school buses and more than 2,000 drivers to government schools.
The United Arab Emirates transportation company officially launches its service for private schools with an operational fleet of 100 buses. Emirates Transport officials say they expect to add 230 buses to the service.
The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Education and Emirates Transport oversee the rollout of the first phase of school buses that will serve these students. Officials say that the 50 buses are outfitted with the latest equipment and in line with international standards for the safety and comfort of special-needs students.
Speakers and delegates from around the world gathered at the emirate’s first school transportation conference, making recommendations in safety and security, driver training and other areas. NAPT President Alex Robinson says that being at the event had a feeling of “what it was probably like to be at an early Warrensburg conference.”
The school transportation management solutions provider will showcase its routing software at the event, which is scheduled for April 21-23. Featured in the company’s exhibit will be a demonstration of its mobile application for accessing and documenting transportation information on an iPad.
That Chinese officials are looking to the American school bus system for guidance is a vital step, particularly in light of a recent tragedy in China’s rural Gansu province.
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