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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"school bus"”.
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School bus crashworthiness
… day thousands of children travel to school and school related events by bus. Not necessarily all the journeys are short and safely driven. The potential for serious injuries is possible in the event of a crash. The severity of injury in an offset frontal impact is higher than the full …
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Virginia School Bus Driver Training: Does Training Program Adequacy Affect school Bus Accident Rates?
… Vehicles, Transportation, and Education all show school buses as having a significantly higher number of accidents per hundred million miles of travel than other forms of transportation. Such statistics are alarming and formal study of school bus accident factors has been limited. The purposes of …
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Applications of Connected Vehicle Technology to Address Issues of School Bus and School Bus Stop Safety
… of crash data shows that the number of fatal school bus related crashes has remained nearly constant over the past ten years, despite an increase in available safety-improving technology. One of the main concerns related to school bus safety is the issue of illegally passing a stopped school …
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Impact of Walking School Bus Programs on Self-Efficacy and Outcome Expectations
Background. A walking school bus (WSB) consists of students and adults walking to and from school and promotes active commuting to school (ACS). Self-efficacy (SE) and outcome expectations (OE) are behavioral constructs associated with ACS. Aim. We sought to assess the impact of a WSB program on …
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The effect of alternative fuels and aftertreatment devices on measured mobile school bus emissions
… diesel emissions from mobile sources such as school buses and class 8 trucks. This thesis presents research conducted on reducing emissions from school buses during mobile operating conditions. Four fuel blends and three aftertreatment devices were tested on three school bus engines.</p> …
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Evaluation of a Prototype System for the Automatic Capture of School Bus Passing Violations
It is illegal to pass a stopped school bus when the vehicle's stop-arm is extended and the red lights are flashing. Public opinion on this issue is very clear. A random phone survey of the public conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported that more than 90 …
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Increasing knowledge of stress reduction strategies for school bus drivers : a quality improvement DNP project
… employee well-being, particularly among school bus drivers. This project aimed to enhance stress management awareness among school bus drivers through educational interventions focused on awareness of mindfulness and resilience techniques. Pre-intervention surveys revealed baseline …
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School bus idling and mobile diesel emissions testing: effect of fuel type and development of a mobile test cycle
… diesel emissions from mobile sources such as school buses and class 8 trucks (classified as a heavy-duty truck of more than 33,000 lbs.). This thesis presents the results of an investigation performed to measure school bus idle emissions in a controlled environmental chamber. This thesis also …
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Diesel particulate matter quantification and reduction strategies for school buses
<p>This thesis evaluated the contributions of school bus self pollution from both the crankcase and the tailpipe emissions to in-cabin levels of fine and ultrafine particulate matter, and determined the effectiveness of commercially available retrofit technologies towards reducing levels of …
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Auto-Motives: Unraveling the Riddle of Alternative Transportation to School
… in the rate of children being driven to school in a private vehicle in the U.S., exacerbating problems from traffic congestion to childhood obesity. While many studies have focused on walking and cycling for the trip to school, few explore parental decision making and the interaction …
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"One Long Route"
… television news stories about one of the longest school bus routes in Montana. The stories include the following: "500 Miles," "Driver Education," Drop Outs," and "One Long Route." Discover the sacrifices students and families make in order to obtain an education... and how tax dollars are being …
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"One Long Route"
… television news stories about one of the longest school bus routes in Montana. The stories include the following: "500 Miles," "Driver Education," Drop Outs," and "One Long Route." Discover the sacrifices students and families make in order to obtain an education... and how tax dollars are being …
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An Evaluation of School Zone Traffic Control Strategies
… has shifted from walking to riding in a school bus or personal vehicle which has impacted both the safety and efficiency of school zone traffic control strategies. In order to improve school zone operations in West Virginia, current warrants and laws relevant to school zones within West …
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ECS: Educational Communication System
"The characteristics of school organizations and their reactions to change are critical to success in educational reform and necessary to the health of an organization and the well-being of its members. Organizational change, in order to be effective and sustainable, can use technology but it must …
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Governor James F. Byrnes and South Carolina's "Education Revolution"
… year that the legality of segregation in public schools was first challenged in his state. Byrnes led the state to improve its public school facilities, making those for Negroes equal to or better than those for whites, thereby hoping to avoid desegregation; he consolidated the school districts …
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Leveraging machine learning to solve The vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows
… widespread applications, ranging from school bus scheduling to packages delivery. In the last decades, and in large part due to the surge in e-commerce and shortened promised lead times, the scale of the highly constrained VRPTW instances encountered in real-world applications has …
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Modeling preferences for innovative modes and services : a case study in Lisbon
… (one-way car rental, shared taxi, express minibus, school bus service for park and ride, and congestion pricing) in the context of Lisbon, Portugal using stated preferences (SP) techniques. The survey design is challenging from several aspects. First of all, the large number of existing and …
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Exploring the impact of incorporating on-demand drivers into a child rideshare platform
… transportation options for children consist of school bus rides and car rides from parents or friends. With an increase in children's involvement in after-school activities and a rise in the number of households with two working parents, people are looking for a better solution to child …
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Study of Bus Driver Behavior at the Onset of Yellow Traffic Signal Indication for the Design of Yellow Time Durations
… dilemma zone protection for passenger cars only. Buses with different vehicle, driver, and occupancy characteristics behave differently at the onset of a yellow indication. The research presented in this thesis characterizes the difference between bus and passenger car driver behavior at the onset …
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