Increasing bus use for journeys to school: a guide to best practice
Table of contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- PURPOSE OF THIS GUIDE
- Why we need to increase bus use
- What are the consequences?
- Chapter 2: Providing a realistic alternative to the car
- Barriers to overcome:
- ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO CHANGE THE WAY THEY TRAVEL
- LINGFIELD'S DEDICATED COACH SERVICE
- Transport arrangements at John Henry Newman
- PLANNING SERVICES
- Adjusting routes in Putney
- PARENT ORGANISED SCHEME IN WEST WICKHAM
- SCHOOL ORGANISED SCHEMES IN CAMBRIDGE
- SCHEME OBJECTIVES
- Network links in Brighton and Hove
- INCREASING DISCRETIONARY PROVISION
- Statutory distances
- Parental preference
- Discretionary provision in Cardiff
- Post 16s
- Fare cards for older pupils
- BETTER DELIVERY OF SCHOOL TRANSPORT
- Merging departments
- Merging functions in Worcestershire
- Integration in South Yorkshire
- Alternative approaches
- Working together in Gloucestershire
- CONTROLLING COSTS
- Staggering hours
- Back-starting
- STAGGERED SCHOOL DAYS
- School term harmonisation
- Spare capacity
- Sale of spare seats - examples of charges
- Key lessons from this chapter
- Chapter 3: Quality of Service
- Barriers to overcome:
- SPECIFICATION AND TENDERING
- Quality of buses
- Registering as a local bus
- Types of contract
- Contract management
- Council operated yellow buses
- Drivers
- Assessment of regular drivers
- NEW INFRASTRUCTURE
- BUS TURNING CIRCLE AT OUR LADY & ST PATRICK'S SCHOOL
- Key lessons from this chapter
- Chapter 4: Fares and marketing
- Barriers to overcome:
- CHARGING STRUCTURES
- FARES INITIATIVES
- Operator-led schemes
- Local authority-led schemes
- WEST SUSSEX QUARTER FARE SCHEME
- THE HERTFORDSHIRE SAVERCARD
- Analysis of the SaverCard Scheme
- MARKETING CAMPAIGNS
- Collegerider in Plymouth
- Key lessons from this chapter
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Chapter 5
Awareness and education - CAMPAIGNS AND STRATEGIES
- Raising awareness at Exmouth Community College
- Yellow buses
- School travel plans
- Developing the Romsey School travel plan
- LINKS TO THE NATIONAL CURRICULUM
- Developing the Romsey School travel plan
- CARING FOR PLANET EARTH IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE
- THE ELIXIR PROJECT
- Junior Citizen and Crucial Crew
- Junior Citizen in Bexley
- Key lessons from this chapter
- Chapter 6: Tackling problem behaviour
- Barriers to overcome:
- PUPIL CONDUCT
- Common problems caused by young people
- EDUCATIONAL TALKS AND VIDEOS
- Useful hints - approaching schools
- Watching 'A Laugh on the Bus'
- ROAD SHOWS
- BOSS OF THE BUS ROAD SHOW, SOUTH YORKSHIRE
- FOCUS/ACTION GROUPS
- Focus group in Denbighshire
- Useful hints - focus/action groups
- BUS ACTION GROUPS IN SOUTH LONDON
- INCIDENT REPORTS
- CHARTERS AND CODES OF CONDUCT
- Isle of Wight's code of good practice
- VIDEO SURVEILLANCE
- BUS ESCORTS AND MONITORS
- Paid escorts
- Useful hints - guidelines for escorts
- In support of escorts in Leicester
- Against escorts in Southampton and Tyne and Wear
- Bus monitors
- Monitors at Adwick Comprehensive
- Key lessons from this chapter
- Chapter 7: Appraisal, funding and monitoring
- APPRAISING SCHOOL BUS SCHEMES IN LOCAL TRANSPORT PLANS
- Costs and benefits of enhancing school transport in Hertfordshire
- FUNDING SOURCES
- MONITORING
- Young People's Travel Forum
- Surveying pupils in Kent
- References
- Annex A: Policy and legislative framework
- Policy affecting travel to school
- Relevant documents for further reading
- LEGISLATION GOVERNING TRAVEL TO SCHOOL BY BUS
- Travel regimes
- Bus safety legislation
- DELEGATION OF RESPONSIBILITIES
- Safety and security
- Cost of travel
- Bad behaviour
- Seatbelts
- School session times
- Annex B: Summary of research
