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Thai students walking A school bus in New York, US. Student transport is the transporting of children and teenagers to and from schools and school events. School transport can be undertaken by school students themselves (on foot, bicycle or perhaps horseback; or for older students, by car), they may be accompanied by family members or caregivers, or the transport may be organised collectively ...
Zum, also written as Zūm, is an American student transportation services company, based in Redwood City, California, U.S. [1] [2] [3]. Zum Services, Inc. provides contract transportation services to school districts across the United States, it provides an app that parents can download to track the location of their children on Zum’s vehicles.
A BCI Bus PK6127AT as a school bus The majority of schools rely on public bus services to transport children to and from school. This Transperth bus is doing a school special run to City Beach on Route 707. Buses, like these transport school children only and as such do not allow the general adult public to ride along with the children.
While school bus operations vary widely by location, in the United States and Canada, school bus services operate independent of public transport, with their own bus stops and schedules, coordinated with school class times.
A school bus contractor is a private company or proprietorship that provides student transport services to a school district or non-public school. Of the 450,000 school buses operating in the United States , it is estimated that approximately 39% are operated by school bus contractors .
First Student Canada is a major contractor of school bus services and public transit systems. The company provides services in Canada comparable to those delivered by First Student in the United States. The component parts of the operation consist of the former Laidlaw services and subsequent new acquisitions by First Canada.
Student Transportation of America was founded in 1997 by Denis J. Gallagher, who is the chairman and CEO of the company. [2] With roots that can be traced to New Jersey's Coast Cities Bus Service established in 1922 by Gallagher's grandfather, STA successfully completed an initial public offering and its income participating securities (IPS) began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange in ...
Laidlaw (/ ˈ l eɪ d ˌ l ɔː /), organized as Laidlaw International, Inc. (with corporate headquarters in Naperville, Illinois) was the largest provider of intercity bus services, contract public transit and paratransit, and contract school bus service in both the United States and Canada.