scholarly journals Transport Safety Mechanism of School Children Using IOT based Smart System

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nada Abdul Al-Balushi ◽  
Syed Imran Ali Kazmi ◽  
Faisal Khalifa Al-Kalbani
Keyword(s):  
School Bus ◽  
Smart System ◽  
School Buses ◽  
Smart Transportation ◽  
Safety Mechanism ◽  
Bus Driver ◽  
Other Information ◽  
School Day ◽  
Transport Safety ◽  
Bus Safety

Most of the Students in Sultanate of Oman are using bus to reach their schools. Bus considered as one of the convenient way of traveling. As most of Students are traveling from home to school or vice versa by bus. Safety is the biggest concern and issue. Bus driver and parents are responsible for providing safety and security to the schoolchildren’s. Many of children went to school and never returned home afterwards. This is because the child feels tired and then sleeps after a hard school day. The bus driver did not pay attention to the presence of a sleeping child in the school bus and the bus driver closes the windows and the door, causing suffocation and death. There are also a lot of accidents that might happen on school buses, so researcher are working to find the way of tracking school bus which is very important for the monitoring of location and track students throughout journey from and to school. This research paper presents IOT smart transportation system for a children school. The system consists of IR sensors to calculate the number of students, RFID card and RFID reader to read student data and attendance recording as well as MQ3 sensor for alcohol sensing and to ensure the safety of the driver. It also contains a mobile application to get notifications and messages and shows other information such as the time of riding the student on the school bus and coming off the bus you can also take the latest coordinates and thus follow the bus via Google Map.  

scholarly journals Safety and security solution for school bus through RFID and GSM technologies

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 804
Author(s):  
Hasmah Mansor ◽  
Tun Mohamad Aqil Mohamad Fadzir ◽  
Teddy Surya Gunawan ◽  
Zuriati Janin
Keyword(s):  
Text Message ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Security System ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
School Bus ◽  
Peace Of Mind ◽  
Main Technique ◽  
Bus Driver ◽  
Bus Safety ◽  
Bus Services

<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">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.</span>

The School Bus Safety System Design for Preventing Children Forgotten in the Car

2014 ◽  
Vol 610 ◽  
pp. 549-551
Author(s):  
Xiao Ming Zhang ◽  
Bin Peng ◽  
Jian Min Liu ◽  
Xin Yong Qiao
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Safety System ◽  
Rfid Technology ◽  
Uhf Rfid ◽  
School Bus ◽  
Bus Driver ◽  
Accident Injury ◽  
Bus Safety

In recent years, the frequent occurrence of kindergarten school bus driver or teacher left children in the car, which leads to the accident, injury and even death. Based on UHF RFID technology has developed a safety system which can effectively prevent child being forgotten in school bus. After testing, the system is high reliability, low false alarm rate and with easy installation, low cost and so easy to put on the market.

scholarly journals Investigating the impact of Innovative Treatments on Driving Behavior at School Bus Stops: A Driving Simulator Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Suhail Almallah ◽  
Shabna Sayed Mohammed ◽  
Qinaat Hussain ◽  
Wael K. M. Alhajyaseen
Keyword(s):  
Driving Simulator ◽  
Driving Behavior ◽  
School Bus ◽  
School Buses ◽  
Bus Stop ◽  
Typical Condition ◽  
Simulator Study ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Traveling Speed

The illegal overtaking/crossing of stopped school buses has been identified as one of the leading causes of students’ injuries and fatalities. The likelihood of students in getting involved in a school bus-related crash increases during loading/unloading. The main objective of this driving simulator study was to study the effectiveness of different treatments in improving students’ safety by reducing the illegal overtaking/crossing of stopped school buses. Treatments used in this research are LED, Road Narrowing and Red Pavement. All proposed treatments were compared with the control condition (i.e., typical condition in the State of Qatar). Seventy-two subjects with valid Qatari driving license were invited to participate in this study. Each subject was exposed to three situations (i.e., Situation 1: the school bus is stopped in the same traveling direction, Situation 2: the school bus is stopped in the opposite traveling direction, Situation 3: the school bus is not present at the bus stop). Results showed that LED and Road Narrowing treatments were effective in reducing the illegal overtaking/crossing of stopped school buses. Moreover, the stopping behavior for drivers in LED and Road Narrowing was more consistent compared to the Red Pavement and control conditions. Finally, LED and Road Narrowing treatments motivated drivers to reduce their traveling speed by 5.16 km/h and 5.11 km/h, respectively, even with the absence of the school bus. Taking into account the results from this study, we recommend the proposed LED and Road Narrowing as potentially effective treatments to improve students’ safety at school bus stop locations.

School Bus Seat Belts?

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-134
Author(s):  
HARRY F. LAWS
Keyword(s):  
Seat Belts ◽  
School Bus ◽  
School Officials ◽  
School Buses ◽  
Children's Behavior

To the Editor.— The recently debated issue of whether or not to put seat belts on children riding school buses seems to be gaining momentum and attempts are being made to amass data supporting their usage on grounds of safety. My observation is that safety, although it is important, is not the most important issue today on school buses. Discipline, or lack thereof, is more of an issue. Data already exist to support the use of seat belts to improve children's behavior, and it would seem to me that recommending seat belts on school buses for that purpose makes much better sense and would be rapidly adopted by school officials! Perhaps we need to adjust the thrust of our argument!

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