A study on the prospects of school bus services in Hong Kong

All children throughout the world aged 4 to 17 are going to schools every weekdays. The most common transport used by children is school bus. In many countries accross the globe, most children uses school bus services to go to school and return back home especially to working parents. Although safety of their children is always the main concern of all parents especially the young ones, they have to rely on the bus services due to time constraints during working hours. Sometimes parents need to call the bus driver to ensure their children has reached home or school. This will create inconvenience to bus driver and may lead to other unwanted consequences. Realizing the root of this problem, a school bus safety and security system has been proposed. The school bus safety and security system is a solution based on Short Messaging System that notifies parents if their children have safely arrived at home or school. RFID and GSM technologies are the main technique proposed in this project. RFID is used for several purposes; to identify the children and parents’ contact number, and attendance monitoring through head count system. GSM is used as a commucation platform to inform parents’ on their children’s movement via SMS. Several tests have been conducted to analyse the overall performance of the developed hardware prototype. From the results, it can be concluded that the developed project is successfully identify the children based on their unique ID, send a text message through SMS to parents with required information; and additional feature of attendance checker. The hardware prototype was successfully tested for children’s identification, attendance and SMS notifications to parents. As a consequence, this project could increase the safety and security solution for children travelling with school bus transportation and give parents peace of mind.

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Urban Developments and Mobility Inequality of the Disadvantaged

Asian Journal of Social Science ◽

10.1163/030382498x00157 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 45-64 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lau Cho-Yam

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Hong Kong ◽

Mass Transit ◽

Land Use Policies ◽

Land Use Development ◽

Bus Services

AbstractThis paper investigates how the mobility inequality of the disadvantaged is negatively influenced by urban socio-economic and land-use development in Hong Kong. The first part reviews the concepts of equality, mobility and the influence of socio-economic and land-use development on the mobility of the disadvantaged. The latter part investigates mobility provisions of the Mass Transit Railway and bus services by means of route tests. The findings of the route tests show that mobility inequality existed among the disadvantaged and the better-off in Hong Kong. This paper concludes that mobility inequality of the disadvantaged is due to the negative influences of socio-economic and land-use policies and developments.

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Regulatory framework of non-franchised buses in Hong Kong with reference to the control of illegal bus services

10.5353/th_b3834933 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Yau-kuen Yip

Keyword(s):

Hong Kong ◽

Regulatory Framework ◽

Bus Services

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Transit Services in a Competitive Market

Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board ◽

10.3141/1735-14 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 1735 (1) ◽

pp. 113-119 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Hong K. Lo ◽

C.W. Yip ◽

K.H. Lee

Keyword(s):

Hong Kong ◽

Competitive Market ◽

Actual Data ◽

International Airport ◽

Interesting Topic ◽

Transit Services ◽

Bus Services ◽

The Impact ◽

Hong Kong International Airport ◽

Rail Service

Since the new Hong Kong International Airport debuted on July 6, 1998, ground trips to the airport have undergone drastic changes. A number of transit modes are provided to connect the new airport with the territory, including three major ones—Airport Express Line (AEL), Air Bus (A-bus), and External Bus (E-bus). All of these transit services are operated by profit-driven businesses, dividing the 167,000 daily trips. Currently, the Hong Kong government imposes fare control on the bus services, whereas the rail service (e.g., AEL) is exempt from such control. The fare changes resulting from this competition were examined to assess their impacts on the traveling public as well as on each operator. In addition, an evaluation was made of the impact of deregulating this policy of fare control and allowing the operators to compete freely in a noncooperative manner. Transit services in a competitive market could lead to very different outcomes. For some districts, a transit operator could increase revenue by fare increases, whereas for other districts, revenue increase could be achieved only with fare reduction. Where and why competition falls into these different operating paradigms is an interesting topic for investigation. The methodology for this analysis, as well as the results based on actual data, is discussed.

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Online Learning as a Panacea for Dealing with School Truancy

Journal of Education and Training ◽

10.5296/jet.v3i2.8983 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Francisca N. Nnajiofor ◽

Joseph C. Onyilagha

Keyword(s):

School Districts ◽

School Achievement ◽

School Dropout ◽

Prevention Strategies ◽

School Bus ◽

Drivers License ◽

Bus Services ◽

School Truancy ◽

Good Prevention ◽

Offer Suggestion

School truancy has been identified as one of the causes of students’ low school achievement, leading to school dropout. Although the problem of school truancy is not new, yet, many school authorities or Governments have no rules on how to deal with this problem. In some arears, there is apparently no database or information, and educators are at a loss as to whether school truancy exists, and at what level if it does. There is no coordinated action against school truancy in many school districts. Consequently, each school district takes decision on how it approaches the problem. This study is designed to have a conversation directly with the student clientele and to determine what they know about school truancy, and from their perspective offer suggestion(s) or strategies that would help to reduce or prevent school truancy. Results suggest for a distinction between “school truancy” and “class truancy” in order to help school managers to adequately focus on each group rather than treating “skipping school” and “skipping classes” with the same amount of resources. The study suggests giving incentives to good students, providing adequate school bus services, insisting on “no 12th grade, no drivers license”, and putting several classes online would be good prevention strategies. The above excerpt forms the basis of the research results presented in this paper.

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