YEAR IN REVIEW
SCHOOL SECURITY OR EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS Te large-scale security breaches in the past year prompted many
districts to conduct training for their staff in an effort to prepare them for various security situations. According to an STN poll following the Newtown shooting and the murder of Chuck Poland, Jr., 29 percent of readers said they had implemented additional security measures on or for their school buses.
STOP ARMS GAIN TRACTION A major
trend in school transportation is illegal stop arm passes. In 2012, NASDPTS conducted a one-day study with about 100,000 school bus drivers nationwide
participating and found that there were nearly 40,000 inci- dents reported and more than 88,000 vehicles that illegally passed the buses. Last June, the U.S. Conference of Mayors passed a reso- lution that calls on local cities and states to allow stop arm cameras to catch illegal school bus passers. The support includes information to be provided to other mayors and state legislators on the benefits of stop arm cameras in the protection of children around school buses.
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For example, school bus drivers in Indiana's Community School
Corporation of Southern Hancock County drilled with the Hancock County SWAT team. Other districts are also enhancing preparedness for emergency situations by conducting trainings for staff with local po- lice officers and fire fighters. Lt. Paul Hasenmeier of the Huron (Ohio) Fire Department, facing camera above, will present at the STN EXPO.
INTERNATIONAL EXPOSURE No one does school
bus transportation quite like the U.S., but other parts of the world are trying. NAPT partnered with Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in the United Arab Emirates to co-host a school transportation summit in 2013 in order to create "world- class" school transportation for the Middle East country. In China, after a head-on crash involving a school van filled with 62 students and a truck in November 2011, there was international outrage. Although seat belts were mandated in 2010, Chinese school buses are actually motorcoaches and not constructed to U.S. federal standards. NAPT President Alexandra Robinson presented at Busworld Asia to continue "global outreach" as part of the association’s core mission of informing other parts of the world on the value of the North American yellow school bus and training of its employees.
BusWorld Asia in Guangzhou, China.
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