The Relative Risks of School Travel A National Perspective and Guidance for Local Community Risk Assessment -- Special Report 269 (2002) / Chapter Skim
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, while approximately 153,000 school-age children received nonfatal injuries. Just over 3.5 percent of these injured children were passengers on school buses, while only 0.025 percent were student pedestrians injured in school busrelated crashes, and 72 percent were riding in motor vehicles that were not buses of any type.
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Legislative History Faced with reduced funding and pressures to spend available funds on nontransportation-related items, some school districts and transit agencies are examining the potential for relying more heavily on transit services for school transportation. Transit services in large urban areas have long been used to transport students, particularly those in high school and junior high school.
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CHARGE TO THE COMMITTEE The Committee on School Transportation Safety was formed to conduct the study mandated by TEA-21. The committee was charged to address safety issues related to the transportation of school-age children to and from school and school-related activities by various modes, and in the process to review available injury, fatality, and exposure data.
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A recent procedural change effected in some local school districts has added to the difficulty of collecting and analyzing injury data related to school travel. Should a crash involving a school bus occur, many students may be transported to a medical facility for evaluation and later determined to have sustained minor or no injuries (L.
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ANALYZING THE SAFETY OF SCHOOL TRAVEL Ideally, a detailed risk analysis should be used to aid decision makers at all levels of government in making choices about school travel alternatives and establishing policies and guidelines to effect such choices. A risk analysis that identifies crash scenarios, probabilities of occurrence, and potential outcomes can enable decision makers to identify and evaluate effective and efficient risk mitigation options and to choose those options that minimize risk commensurate with their practicality and affordability.
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Thus the committee grouped the modes used for school travel into six broad categories for which sufficient data could be obtained to support the required analyses:3 · School bus -- A vehicle designed for carrying more than 10 persons,4 including the driver, that is operated by a public or private school or a private school bus contractor for the purpose of transporting children (prekindergarten through grade 12) to and from school and school-related activities (excluding chartered5 and transit buses)
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for school buses versus all other vehicles used for all purposes. Though the fatality rate per vehicle-mile is the most commonly used measure of motor vehicle safety, by itself it does not provide sufficient insight into the relative safety of school buses and other modes used for school travel, including other vehicle types, bicycling, and walking.
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. The committee conducted its analyses using the 19911999 data contained in FARS and GES to obtain national estimates of the numbers of fatalities and injuries, respectively, among students traveling during normal school travel hours (as defined above)
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The committee's findings and its recommendations to federal, state, and local policy makers and administrators for reducing risks and enhancing safety for students traveling to and from school are contained in Chapter 6. REFERENCES Abbreviations NCST National Conference on School Transportation NHTSA National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NTSB National Transportation Safety Board TRB Transportation Research Board NCST.
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1999b. Pupil Transportation in Vehicles Not Meeting Federal Standard School Bus Standards.
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