How can School Bus Transportation Promote Education

 

School bus transportation provides safe and environment friendly journey to millions of children daily around the world. It is said to be the most regulated and carefully designed transportation vehicles operating in today's world. And it provides the safest transportation of getting students to and from school.

It is widely known that there are more number of school buses than any other type of vehicles. Every school bus reduces traffic by 36 cars. But unfortunately most of the children travel by their individual private vehicles. It supports academic achievement with access to a variety of educational opportunities.

Based on the survey, it is found that students are more likely to arrive at school alive if they take the school bus rather than take a car or ride with friends. It is designed specifically to protect students with several safety measures attached to it.

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Importance of School Buses:

School bus transportation has become an integral part of the educational system. By promoting greater use of school buses, some of the environmental problems can be easily solved. Convenience and cost savings are the major benefits of using school bus transportation services.

Certain students are having access to educational system only by means of school buses. Without school bus, educational opportunities will be risky for such students.

Why Ride the School Bus?

  • Help the Environment

Rate of pollution is decreased with the help of school buses. Fuel costs and traffic are significantly reduced using school buses.

  • Gateway to Education

All students have equal access to education and its opportunities. Also, it satisfies various kinds of parental needs.

  • Keep Kids Safe

We all know that school bus is the safest vehicle for kids. Kids are safer with the help of dedicated professionals available in the school.

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Environmental Benefits offered by School Bus

  1. Money

Parents can receive economic benefits if they allow their children to travel by school bus. With the rise in the price of gas, you can save money by avoiding the fuel costs, which may otherwise spend on child's travel to and from school. Those saved money can be used for other things and also enables to save money for emergencies.

  1. Fuel Consumption

School bus drivers never accelerate and brake aggressively. When they are accelerating, it is better to use the torque of the diesel engines. Also, they closely follow speed limits which thereby reduces fuel consumption.

  1. Pollution

School bus can prevent many individual cars that may otherwise run on the road. Pollution caused by those cars can adversely affect the environment greatly. Hence, by using buses, pollution caused by cars can be significantly reduced and make the air cleaner.

Car pooling to school manages unnecessary idling of vehicles, higher emissions, wastage of fuel and money, and safety concerns.

Reasons Why Parents Consider School Bus Transportation as Ideal One:

  • They believe school bus as the most reliable form of transportation and it enables the students to have easy access to the educational system

  • Able to get benefits like convenience and cost savings

  • Student achievement of millions of children would be declined if bus services are ceased

  • Students would be absent more often if there are no proper school bus transportation services

Obviously,school bus transportation is a gateway to education. Each and every parent need their children to stay in school. They all deserve an education. If the school bus is at risk, then opportunity for children to access education is also at risk.

9 Facts to Know About NAVIC, India’s Very Own Navigation System

 

On Thursday, April 2016, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) has launched the seventh and final satellite of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, IRNSS 1G, on board the PSLV C33, from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. Here are 9 facts associated with India's pride, the IRNSS 1G satellite.

 

 

 

 

 

1. India, the Fifth Country to own its Own Navigation System: With the launch of NAVIC, India became the fifth country, after the US, Russia, European Union, and China, to own its own navigational system. India had been depending completely on the US Global Positioning System for its navigational requirements until now.

 

 

 

 

2. 12 – Year Mission Life: The satellite was safely positioned into its sub geosynchronous transfer orbit with a perigee (nearest point to earth) of 284 km and an apogee (farthest point to earth) of 20,657 km. It is estimated to cover a mission life of 12 years, completing the IRNSS constellation of seven satellites.

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3. NAVIC, the Name Says it All: India's Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi named the system as NAVIC, translated as mariners, dedicating it to the mariners and fishermen of the country. The satellite system finds its application in marine, terrestrial, and aerial navigation. NAVIC is expanded as Navigation with Indian Constellation.

The system can allow GPS vehicle tracking , fleet management, disaster management, mapping and geodetic data capture, visual and voice navigation to name a few. Its service can be integrated into the mobile phones used by hikers and fishermen for example.

4. Other Countries are Welcome to take Advantage of the System: Mr. Modi offered NAVIC's services to all the SAARC nations and India's neighbouring nations as well. India currently has seven countries that rely on other countries for their navigational needs.

5. IRNSS is Unique: Contrary to other navigational systems, which makes use of more than 20 satellites for its function, the IRNSS system only includes 7 satellites. It is regional in nature, unlike other systems which are global, and can provide accurately the positioning information within the country and about 1500 km away from its boundaries.

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6. Better Control during Calamities from Now On: With the launch of NAVIC, it is expected that the country could manage calamities even more better. It will aid fast and superior rescue operations and disaster relief services during natural and man-made calamities like war, flood, earthquake etc. The country no longer will be restricted by the denial of service by nations on which it depended for such information.

7. Accurate Up to 20 m: ISRO claims that the system can deliver an accuracy not less than 20 m. It's services will be offered as two modes: as a Standard Positioning Open Service and a Coded Military Restricted Service.

8. Testing IRNSS: At present, all the satellites under the IRNSS system, is undergoing stabilisation testing, and the verification of their performance. This will be continued over the next few months before it will be put to use.

9. Total Cost: ISRO officials stated that the IRNSS satellites reached a total cost of Rs. 1,420 crore.