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hile many businesses talk about core val- ues, safety is the primary value in school bus transportation, noted John Barrington, director of product planning for Blue Bird, in a recent


YouTube video. To that end, many school districts are embracing a movement to bring school buses into the world of Vehicle to Everything (V2X). Schoolchildren are among the most affected groups


of vulnerable road users, or VRUs. From 2011 to 2020, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that 24 percent of all pedestrians killed in school


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transportation-related crashes were 5 to 10 years old, explained Jim Misener, senior director of product man- agement and global V2X ecosystem lead for Qualcomm Technologies. Deploying cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) can


help keep road users—including school children—safer, supporting global initiatives to aggressively advance Vision Zero and Towards Zero Death aiming to eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries in the U.S. while increasing safe, healthy and equitable mobility for all, he added. Safety technologies include alerts showing up on a


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