driver performance, vehicle health and potential safety risks. The results have been significant.” He said data collected from six locations in a four-week pilot program that
concluded on June 30 demonstrates the platform’s impact on safety. It found a 45-percent reduction in inattentive driving events, a 52-percent reduction in forward collision rates and a 49-percent reduction in rolling stops. As advanced driver assistance systems continue to evolve, Hanna said school districts should carefully evaluate each technology and invest where it provides measurable value. Drivers should also receive necessary training to
use these tools effectively. “At the end of the day, every trans-
portation decision comes back to one simple goal: Bringing every child safely to school each morning and safely home each afternoon,” said Hanna. “Technology is helping us accomplish that mission more effectively than ever before.” As explained by Milewski at IC
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Bus, the industry is passionate about making student transportation as safe as possible. Technologies that can help improve safety are natural- ly generating significant interest. IC Bus has already piloted cellular V2X technology that allows a school bus to communicate with nearby passenger vehicles, specifically Audi eTrons, through a partnership with Applied Information in Marietta, Georgia. Dashboard or navigation alerts warn motorists that a school bus is stopped or approaching. “As costs come down and the safety
value becomes clearer, I expect more of these features to become standard in the years ahead,” Milewski added. There is new technology that
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is advancing each year to make transportation safer for everyone. Braking technology, either alone or in combination with other connect- ed and smart technology, may be the right recipe and solution to pre- vent deaths such as the tragic loss of life in Tennessee in March. Vann-Jackson summarized it best: “Ultimately, our goal should be to move transportation operations from simply reacting to accidents to identifying and mitigating risk before the collision ever occurs. The safest technology is not nec- essarily the technology that takes the human out of the equation. It is technology that helps humans make a safer decision, sooner.” ●
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A new national survey found nearly half of parents with school bus riders report their
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