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[citation needed] The crossing arms, when extended, require students to cross at least 5 feet (1.5 m) in front of the bus. In Manitoba, Canada, provincial school buses have been required to have an extendable safety arm mounted on the bus since a seven-year-old boy died in 1996 in St. Norbert after getting off his school bus. [citation needed]
Standard No. 221 – School Bus Body Joint Strength: April 1, 1977: This established requirements for the strength of the body panel joints in school bus bodies, to reduce deaths and injuries resulting from structural collapse of school bus bodies during crashes. Standard No. 222 – School Bus Passenger Seating and Crash Protection: April 1, 1977
A training bus is a special kind of bus or coach that is used by bus operators for training the driving skills of bus drivers. It is also used to train the driving skill of a person who is learning to become a bus driver. Driving a training bus on the road is an important part of driving training, as this is the most practical way to train one ...
School bus Thomas Built Buses: 1978 USA Saf-T-Liner C2: School bus Thomas Built Buses: 2004 USA Saf-T-Liner EF: Single deck Thomas Built Buses: 1978 School bus United States Saf-T-Liner EFX: Single deck Thomas Built Buses: 2011 School bus United States Saf-T-Liner ER: Single deck Thomas Built Buses: 1978 School bus United States Saf-T-Liner FS ...
The Freightliner FS-65 is a cowled school bus chassis (conventional style) that was manufactured by Freightliner from 1997 to 2008. Derived from the Freightliner FL-Series medium-duty trucks, the FS-65 was produced primarily for school bus applications, though commercial-use buses and cutaway-cab buses were also built using the FS-65 chassis.
Trans Tech is the first school bus manufacturer to produce a fully electric school bus (eTrans, based on the Smith Electric Newton). Van-Con, Inc. Type A Type B 1973 Middlesex, New Jersey: Van-Con, Inc. is New Jersey's only school bus manufacturer. Van-Con, Inc produces 16, 25, 30 passenger and wheelchair accessible school buses.
IFOPT (Identification of Fixed Objects in Public Transport) is a CEN Technical Specification that provides a Reference Data Model for describing the main fixed objects required for public access to Public transport, that is to say Transportation hubs (such as airports, stations, bus stops, ports, and other destination places and points of interest, as well as their entrances, platforms ...
Starting life as a sightseeing bus for a motorcoach customer, the new-generation Supercoach (renamed as a single word) entered production in 1948, with Crown producing its first school bus example in late 1949. [1] [3] In a move back to the mid-engine layout, the design of the 1950 Crown Supercoach broke many precedents in school bus construction.