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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.
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Vehicle-to-grid technology can lower the total cost of ownership for electric school buses and help integrate renewable energy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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A survivor who works to eradicate trafficking shares her experience and recalls the bus driver who cared about her but didn’t know that she was in danger. She details warning signs drivers can look for.
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Momentum is growing to return to full operation. For pupil transporters, that means addressing potentially greater driver shortage, factoring in the added responsibilities of sanitizing the buses — possibly as a permanent practice — and returning to managing more staff members in person.
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Child ridesharing company HopSkipDrive’s recent survey of pupil transporters and education professionals shows that COVID-19 is worsening driver shortage. Other pain points include school bus utilization and funding constraints.
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The transportation coordinator for Baldwin County (Ala.) Public Schools details his team's school bus sanitization plans for reopening. Strong leadership is key, he notes.
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