Improving School Bus Safety, Security with RFID
What should you look for when considering radio-frequency identification devices for your school bus fleet?
Join us in an open-ended conversation about children and school buses – and the people who bring them together.
What should you look for when considering radio-frequency identification devices for your school bus fleet?
Vehicle-to-grid technology can help reduce costs by charging fleets when electricity rates are low and managing the precise charge rate to make sure bus batteries are not negatively impacted.
A fresh start commences for SBF's new executive editor in a rather challenging time.
From dealing with an ongoing driver shortage to ever-changing health and safety protocols, pupil transporters are charging ahead and using those experiences as fuel for planning a successful 2021-22 school year.
Carina Noble, the National School Transportation Association's president, reflects on the association’s recent annual meeting and convention, and how effective communication and leadership will help drive the future of the yellow bus.
Failing to properly treat high‐touch surfaces on the bus can place passengers and drivers at risk. The following three tips follow protocols used by hospitals to prevent the spread of harmful bacteria and viruses.
With already constrained budgets, it’s important to arm school districts with the insight they need to make smart and strategic electrification investments.
Key topics to cover when adopting electric buses include finding out the type of utility you are dealing with, identifying your utility customer representative, and finding out whether you will incur demand charges.
Vehicle-to-grid technology can lower the total cost of ownership for electric school buses and help integrate renewable energy.
The report should provide transparency, help customers make informed decisions, and demonstrate the high level of safety involved in student transportation. Share safety policies, investments, and metrics.
Knowing the reasons for a significant portion of electric bus funding being tied to serving disadvantaged communities, using air quality analysis for route planning, and taking responsibility for creating equity are key.
Increasingly, more states have had to get innovative to solve their infrastructure issues. Public-private partnerships are powerful and produce benefits for all involved. These are relationships combining resources and knowledge that can profoundly enhance underserved communities.
The 2020-21 school year underwent constant shifts and challenges courtesy of COVID-19. Although surveys reflect worsening driver shortage, respondents also said CARES Act funds have helped them hang on.
The co-founder of a group seeking to empower women in the workplace notes that changing a culture of sexism in the industry will take asking the right questions, sharing experiences, and working together for change.
As the industry gets more experience managing post-pandemic operations, it has seen what changes will become the new normal. To that end, the National School Transportation Association is forming a strategic plan that will guide it over the next few years and beyond.
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